Example sentences of "but [verb] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again answering no , I apologised but asked them to tell me what objection they had . |
| 2 | To picture a man in words , one 's much like another , ’ said Aldhelm , ‘ but bring me to see him , I 'll pick him out from a thousand . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But say we accept what you 're obviously driving at , who might have wanted her dead ? ’ |
| 4 | But say you love me again , Jane . ’ |
| 5 | But wants you to ask her to . |
| 6 | Well nothing but d' ya know what I mean it 's sort of . |
| 7 | But d' ya know something ? |
| 8 | You we , I 'm glad you said that cos , I 'm not sure if I told you this before but d' ya remember what these numbers here mean ? |
| 9 | I keep having hot flushes , know what I mean ? but d' you think they care ? they just follow me round saying ‘ Miss we 've dropped a stitch ’ . |
| 10 | Yeah , but d' you think they 'll be able to see it ? |
| 11 | . But d' you know I , I did n't fancy it . |
| 12 | He 's learned his lesson , but has she learnt hers ? |
| 13 | But has he had it since new ? |
| 14 | Aunt Emily may have been spoiled but she was irresistibly spoilable because she was so generous , so imaginative , she did not try to destroy people 's pictures of themselves as you do , but helped them to build them up ! |
| 15 | ‘ But steeled myself to do it . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't until I met you , but loving you made me want to know how twins could be so different . |
| 17 | ‘ But lettin' him 'ave it all back , the money and letter as well , ’ said Dolly bitterly . |
| 18 | Boring to cite them , but suffice it to say one remembers them , like your PS re birth certificate being ‘ all part of the service ’ . |
| 19 | Not sure what to expect but suffice it to say I found it worthwhile and stimulating |
| 20 | Sir Peter Walters , a former chairman of BP who now heads Midland Bank and Blue Circle , kept a row of management books behind his desk in Britannic House , but says he read them ‘ primarily for entertainment , rather as I would a novel ’ . |
| 21 | The first is to construct the whole thing from scratch , using your own materials , but making use of standard sizes or door and internal storage systems ; the second is to make use of a wardrobe kit , which basically provides the door and the frame to make the wardrobe front , but allows you to choose your own internal fitments . |
| 22 | In other words , I was trying to establish whether religion had been important enough in the interviewees ' childhood ( at least , as it was now remembered ) for it to be mentioned , without any prompting on my part ; and then , I would try not to prejudge what the interviewees thought was involved in religion , but let them decide what aspect would come out ‘ naturally ’ — whether they would talk about the institutionalised churches , private prayer , a personal relationship with God , a way of looking at the world or the ultimate meaning of their existence . |
| 23 | A mother had instituted her sons heirs and added : ‘ Let them not for any reason alienate the lands which will come to them from my estate , but let them conserve them for their successors and give each other reciprocal guarantees to that effect . ’ |
| 24 | His arms around her , he began so gently that although McAllister was already feeling stifled , and the fear of men which had beset her for so long had begun to tighten its grip on her , she not only allowed him to kiss and fondle her face and neck , but let him undo her hair , so that it tumbled about her shoulders , as magnificent in its abandon as he had imagined it in the long nights when he had been unable to sleep . |
| 25 | She could guess roughly what he was promising but let him keep his secret . |
| 26 | But let me give you a particular tip here . |
| 27 | But let me give you a tip — panic . |
| 28 | But let me give you some advice — big brotherly advice . ’ |
| 29 | But let me give you the peak of my experience as a cancer patient . |
| 30 | But let me give you two |