Example sentences of "but you [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To those in Rome who had trusted Christ alone for salvation the Apostle Paul wrote ‘ Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear ; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba , Father . |
| 2 | ‘ But you 've gone all red . ’ |
| 3 | I got this clear but you 've messed it up again . |
| 4 | Many of these are planned for , is n't it , you might do it every day , but you 've planned for it , |
| 5 | So you , you 'll be able to do it every Monday , but you 've planned for it on Monday , you know who 's going to do it , and they , you know , it 's set up . |
| 6 | You did n't grow big cars but you 've grown much bigger flowers than we did . ’ |
| 7 | And one of the girls said yeah but you 've grown since then , I says no , they 've shrunk them ! |
| 8 | ‘ But you 've comforted many a weary soul , listened to lots of troubled folk and even given one or two the will to live again . |
| 9 | Beryl said : ‘ But you 've eaten hardly anything , father ! |
| 10 | Maybe not today , but you 've lost at some stage in the future when you least need to lose . |
| 11 | You may win the battle but you 've lost the war . |
| 12 | But you 've lost the , the overall shape of it . |
| 13 | Sorry , Terry , but you 've lost me there . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But you 've lost fifteen months of Thomas 's life , ’ she said . |
| 15 | I know but you 've lost the . |
| 16 | ‘ But you 've robbed quite a number of their innocence . ’ |
| 17 | If you jump , yes you 're looking at the right place , but you 've jumped ahead . |
| 18 | Yes but you 've flown ? |
| 19 | So you 've activated the channel but you 've activated it by increasing the frequency with which it resides in its open state , compared a to its closed state . |
| 20 | But you 've made me say things much better left unsaid . |
| 21 | Well thanks Pauline but you 've cost me how nay thousand pounds worth of business . |
| 22 | ‘ Efficient as always , ’ he said drily , ‘ but you 've missed the point . |
| 23 | But you 've raised a very valid point and it 's one that we need to see through to the end . |
| 24 | She 's not very clever , but you 've taught her well . ’ |
| 25 | But you 've taught me the difference between art and life . |
| 26 | I 've been meaning to talk to you , but you 've ducked out of the building so fast after finishing your show these last two days , ’ she told him when he stopped to greet her and ask if she had heard the brilliant spontaneous earthquake joke he 'd cracked on air that morning . |
| 27 | But you 've caused an accident ! |
| 28 | But you 've argued previously in this hall that North Yorkshire should provide for residential development at a level which would cater for a continuation of the past levels of migration . |
| 29 | But you 've heard it all before , |
| 30 | Old characters that maybe you do n't mind but you 've heard spoken about . |