Example sentences of "but i [verb] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but I meant leave them while she has a lot of sleepless nights . |
| 2 | ‘ You and I are also required to put in an appearance at the police station later , but I managed to persuade them you were n't in a fit state to answer questions right now . ’ |
| 3 | Of course , I can not stop someone from writing my life independently , as long as it is not libelous , but I try to put them off by saying I 'm considering writing my autobiography . |
| 4 | Now I 'm married I 've grown a little away from them , but I miss having them to talk to . |
| 5 | ‘ You do n't have to worry about those sheep , Seb , they 're as snug as bugs in a rug out there , but I 've given them some more hay , just in case . |
| 6 | But I 've studied them , yes . |
| 7 | I think I can say that during my career most of the things I 've decided ought to be done , I 've got done , but I 've done them in very different ways to other people and sometimes I 've been criticised for not going out and grabbing the headlines . |
| 8 | ‘ You can scoff , ’ said the visitor of San Severo , ‘ but I 've seen them with my own eyes . ’ |
| 9 | Fo to make sh little nappies for the baby that was just been born and no clothes ready or fo and I 've I 've seen her you know as poor as we were my mam would sit there was patching sheets and er but I 've seen them whipped off the bed and put on somebody 's bed while they were having a baby or whatever . |
| 10 | But I 've seen them on the pictures . |
| 11 | That shop , I do n't know what the name of that shop is , but I 've seen them in the window lately |
| 12 | I wish I could remember the words , but I 've forgot them so I just hum along with the tune . |
| 13 | I retrieved them too , but I 've left them in my flat . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Creative I would n't claim to be , but I 've known them — lots of them . ’ |
| 15 | Er but I mean tell them if they need to buy anything to get the receipts , |
| 16 | I was delighted , not to mention shocked , but I had to turn them down because I am definitely not a portrait photographer . |
| 17 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 18 | And he added : ‘ I thanked my team for trying hard after the game , but I had to tell them they were outplayed by a better team . |
| 19 | I was afraid to speak to these important people but I had to tell them about the danger . |
| 20 | It would probably kill my mum but I had to tell them . |
| 21 | Mum always opened the letters but I had to read them for her . |
| 22 | ‘ But I had to book them in January . |
| 23 | They dropped their voices to a whisper when they saw me but I 'd seen them taking nips from a bottle of gin . |
| 24 | But I 'd eluded them before and I could again , I told myself , almost jauntily , as I ambled into the bar that I decided to make my last stop for the night . |
| 25 | ‘ But I like to watch them more than once . ’ |
| 26 | Francis added : ‘ I 'm all in favour of lots of goals , but I like to see them created properly rather than artificially . |
| 27 | There were lessons all around me about what I should be doing , where I should be going , but I chose to ignore them . |
| 28 | I love salad sandwiches but I hate making them ! |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't really read books , but I liked cataloguing them and arranging them and making sure they were well looked after and all that kind of thing . ’ |
| 30 | He held out his hands to me again , but I refused to take them . |