Example sentences of "very [adj] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | times of I mean , I actually think it 's a an awful lot of ask of a friendship , or of a family situation and also , indeed , if you I mean I think sometimes they can be very supportive but th the true understanding may not be there and erm I think that 's what led me to start up a self- help group in Edinburgh erm which is , has been erm running for the last two years now . |
| 2 | This is manifested in a strong desire to break away from corporate environments seen as financially restrictive , especially those businesses which are obviously very profitable but where the profits are not fairly shared out among those who are helping to generate them . |
| 3 | ‘ All the children in the orphanages are very disadvantaged but these two are more disadvantaged than the other inmates , ’ said Mr Nath . |
| 4 | It used to be very covert but now we are coming out from behind the bushes . ’ |
| 5 | Later on you got what we call the fog cheese , from the second crop of grass in the autumn after haymaking , which was very rich but did not rise quite as well . |
| 6 | Accidental fires do happen when the Peak is very dry but we have n't been in that situation yet . |
| 7 | ‘ It is certainly very strange but we will have to wait for the outcome of an investigation . ’ |
| 8 | Yes very strange but you are strange . |
| 9 | He reported that the beer was very weak but not too bad , and that the wine was of low quality and likely to produce acidity . |
| 10 | I was told that the incidence of re-offending was very low but I was not given any actual figures in support of this . |
| 11 | I have stood twice as co-operative Labour candidate and did n't win either time , er much to my husband 's disgust , because I , but you see at the time er Labour was very , very low but erm the local people , you can tell by your boxes , was very loyal to me . |
| 12 | ‘ And Mrs Wright , I 'm very sorry but I 've just remembered I did n't lock the door . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm very sorry but I 'm afraid of horses and my Mum forgot to change my bloomers , ’ I blurted out in confusion . |
| 14 | Tell him that I am very sorry but I can not make exceptions . |
| 15 | Of course I 'm very sorry but our relationship has never been close . |
| 16 | Would those in favour of the amendment I 'm very sorry but er it 's not an automatic right , sorry , I 'd like to have called him but er we 've summed up , what do we do now ? |
| 17 | What he 's talking about and this is the same erm same councillor who was talking about living harmoniously side by side those that have are are buying them , those that are renting them but what he 's actually saying is well I 'm actually very , very sorry but if you have n't a job , if you have n't an income or you 're income is so low , just go over there and stay away from us decent chaps with lots of cash . |
| 18 | Yeah , yeah six minutes past the hour so there , yeah , so they kept giving you doubts , now if you 're getting on this train make sure you get out at Lemington , so at about twenty past twelve , the twelve six went out from platform eleven , why , cos that will upset everything then , by , few of the trains kept coming round , then they said were very sorry but the Shrewsbury train will come in at platform ten that 's where we 're all waiting , so the ready train be outside somewhere , so , that came in just as the , the twelve , six went out about twenty past twelve these in and this girl got up so we said do n't get on this , you 'll never get to Birmingham you get on here , wait until we get on we said , cos they changed the train , oh she was getting all worked up , she come from Middlesborough , well I said well , well , anyway , we said no , there , there 's no trains for university no , nobody will be going at the right time will they ? |
| 19 | You know I sa , told Margaret , I said look do n't er I 'm very sorry but we ca n't do it ! |
| 20 | I said oh , I said , I 'm very sorry but I do n't kno , do n't know what you 'd have to charge to justify that you know , to buy it and then do it up , I do n't know ! |
| 21 | Well I says I 'm very sorry but I says it 's six miles away in a store , we do n't attend stores in the evening , I 've nobody to come d I 've got Where the hell do you think I 'm going to sleep tonight ? |
| 22 | Very polite but — well — sort of quietly menacing . |
| 23 | he was very polite but he must have been bored by me . |
| 24 | When we started filming she was very shy but she got better as she went along and she picked up confidence . |
| 25 | I was very shy but his mischievous grin put me at my ease and we strolled along behind Sally and her beau . |
| 26 | They were very discreet but it looked to me like an assignation . ’ |
| 27 | In another he found old shoes piled high on rusty tables and there was one room he thought very odd but it made him smile . |
| 28 | Yet Gemma had shown no more than a polite interest in Almsmead while Linnet , who was very dear but not Gemma , after all , had positively thrown herself into all the excitements of housebuilding and furnishing , taking to Far Flatley as if she had been born there . |
| 29 | It was very short-lived but at the time it was a bit of a shock . |
| 30 | Bruce Tigwell says … the skill of it he says is being able to read the ground and go over bumps as quickly as you can … there are more skills in this than any other form of motoring … he says it 's fun motor sport and very friendly but the competition is still high … you can not buy the vehicles off the shelf you have to make them … top speed is 115 miles an hour but they rarely get the chance to go that fast |