Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] but [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I too agree that far too many dealers have the attitude that you describe but I can understand why . |
| 2 | Then close your eyes and see if you can describe that person in sufficient detail to distinguish him or her from anyone else — it 's harder than you think but you will improve in time . |
| 3 | But Fred was saying , er because , erm the dreadful thing was I could n't remember his name to start with I think I could try if I knew but I could n't remember what his christian name |
| 4 | So once you get towards , take a clock in , make sure you pace yourself , and say at the end of that just put in a sort of sentence to make it look as if it 's been finished off Erm , what I usually do when I do an exam is I spend the first five minutes actually looking at the questions because initially you look for the ones that you 've revised and you see but there may be others there , there 're you can do in a slightly different way than the way that they first appear and that might help you quite a bit , although there are no trick questions in this . |
| 5 | So she changed it and she said but you 'll have to have another one . |
| 6 | You can , of course , use an alternative type electrolytic capacitor if you wish but you will have to adjust the mounting position accordingly . |
| 7 | Er a a and then say , well we can take that on board for you if you like but it might be more efficient for you to do the possessions because the civil engineer Leeds , actually is part of your organization a a and it might be more appropriate for you to get those possessions in , for you to decide whether or not you want one big bang o o o of a week 's possession or , or you want to do it i in four hour no-trains periods for the next three years . |
| 8 | Whatever they like bottom of the River Trent if you like but it would be very going off the subject and I 've only got a minute or two to spare but what someone pointed out to me that terrible monstrosity outside the Theatre Royal subway and every time I pass I fume inwardly . |
| 9 | That 's quite a good i , go and get one and see that you cover it tin foil if you want but it 'll probably be alright as it is . |
| 10 | A landowner could have his monument protected if he wished but he might prefer to maltreat it or destroy it completely . |
| 11 | He could outmanoeuvre them if he wished but he could not get rid of them and he was only groping round in circles about the tree he had made his own . |
| 12 | But he says but he 'll not accepts the eleven o'clock . |
| 13 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You could n't open your mouth in this house before he left but he 'd be down your throat . ’ |
| 15 | passed through , because they did n't stop at Needham and er but I always thought , you see , there were , I do n't know several clerks in that office as I remember but I ca n't remember who they were anyway I did n't have , we did n't have much to do with them . |
| 16 | and I mean you can get about when you , when you go but we ca n't so it 's no good , if we put a bed in our spare room |
| 17 | You can reply as you wish but I shall translate in whatever way I think appropriate , Good luck . ’ |
| 18 | You can take all in the line or as many as you like but you can not take from more than one line . |
| 19 | Anyway , you were asleep when it happened but they might want to have a word , so — ’ |
| 20 | This is a good argument as it stands but one can well imagine that it would have been pressed in terms of these hopefuls having a right to be paid if they succeeded . |
| 21 | Out of habit the Brigadier treated everybody as though they were local National Service boys who had grown up in the village and so knew every blade of grass as well as he did but who might be a bit hazy about certain family backgrounds and about things that had happened before their time . |