Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 But nothing gave me the right to say it now .
2 I have n't , I have n't got a clue but I knew it the minute the second you said it I knew it .
3 Some people do n't do anything — some people 's places really are n't clean … well , this one is n't very , but I keep it the best I can .
4 But I mean what the pay relative to us the cost of living and everything else , I do n't know .
5 I did n't know Tonya very well , but I wish her the best . ’
6 I do not know what the answer is , but I know what the answer is not .
7 But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know .
8 People say they become imperceptive ; they spend hours looking for the car keys that were on the table in front of them all the time ; they become preoccupied and inattentive to what other people are saying to them ( ‘ But I told you the Smiths were coming over yesterday .
9 ‘ Wild geese , mon vieux , is what you presume me to chase , ’ said the gentleman to Bramble , ‘ but I assure you the stable door is bolted . ’
10 But I think what the Franks Report illustrates to me very , very clearly indeed is that , within a parliamentary democratic system of government , there are some issues which are insoluble in that the government of the day … are incapable of delivering through the House of Commons .
11 I think I said it was a 6-iron or maybe a 7 , but I gave him the yardage and he hit his shot right at the hole .
12 I was utterly baffled , but I gave you the benefit of every doubt , which by this time added up to a couple of thousand .
13 Thomas was sent for tests but nobody knew what the problem was .
14 But nobody knows what the long term risks of eating irradiated food will be .
15 Toughened glass is glass which has been heat treated to make it four to five times stronger than normal glass , but which gives it the characteristic that , should it break , it does so in harmless tiny fragments rather than the dangerous slivers associated with normal glass .
16 One of the tragedies to that it has now become so expensive but is very difficult but not because it was sponsored but somebody told me the other night that the Billy Connolly programme excuse me Billy Connolly programme about art and culture was
17 ‘ None at all , Madame , but you know what the police are like , especially that idiot Hassan .
18 She 'd already made a bit of a name for herself , only locally but you know what the Germans are about music , and the district party bosses liked romantic pieces so she became the star turn at their more respectable booze-ups .
19 But you know what the Press is and people are .
20 Good try — but you got it the wrong way round !
21 But you see you the of Nick is , you see , he worked on his own for this twelve months .
22 And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there .
23 Er so I 'm gon na have them but she showed me the small room , what they call the small room , well that was huge well it will be perfect for what we want .
24 She has n't , of course , but she gives me the landlord 's name .
25 Folly doubted if she would care what Luke got up to , but she gave her the flowers none the less .
26 But who knows what the grapevine will bear next week ?
27 Whereby erm we do n't end up actually doing the things for them , but we show them the way that they can do them for themselves .
28 The yeuk was the Well just as you would say er Just a hook but we called it the yeuk Y E U K.
29 Exactly how this will be done remains to be seen , but one wonders what the effects will be .
30 But they know what the game is , and they know when they have done a good job : the rewards are tangible and clear .
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