Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her head and heart were in turmoil but no-one would have guessed it when later that evening she and Charles entertained 800 of their friends and family at a ball inside Buckingham Palace . |
| 2 | To Giles I 'm a ‘ Jeremiah ’ who should be capable of ‘ an act of faith ’ — act of lunacy , more like ; to Hans Haenlein and others I 've got incredibly deep pockets ; to Peter Davey , for whom I voted and who is now so far removed from ‘ the cultural gangsters ’ as to be a cultural kamikaze pilot , I need ‘ a heroic proposal ’ ; to Mervyn Miller I should n't ‘ surrender my birthright ’ — but I may have to sell it . |
| 3 | I see that the title is down as Historical Memory , but I would prefer to call it , if it must have a title , Memory of History . |
| 4 | I mean I 've had Fife College on the phone as well saying you know why ca n't we do it and Alec we 're really now we can do no more until Napier come up if for some reason Napier fell down on the job then I think I 've got enough knowledge about what we 're doing now but I would start running it round the other colleges including Telford who are doing a distance learning course |
| 5 | They do n't tell you why you are given honours but I would like to think it was because of Minder . |
| 6 | But I would have thought it 's best to put it on there if we can . |
| 7 | But I might have to cancel it on what , what Deborah 's said . |
| 8 | Erm , and now let's see I used to have a file on this , but I might have passed it or given all the stuff away |
| 9 | I 'm prepared to pay but I 'll have to do it , just let me do it a bit a week . |
| 10 | These can be expressed in varying degrees of complexity but I shall try to keep it as simple as possible . |
| 11 | but I could 've put it off another day |
| 12 | I bumped into LETS at the Community Office in the middle of Totnes , Devon , but I could have found it in Wiltshire or Gloucestershire , and no doubt in other places , if I 'd bothered to look . |
| 13 | Yes , he thought , but I should have done it years ago . |
| 14 | But I should have to consider it very carefully indeed . |
| 15 | but I should like to examine it for a little longer . |
| 16 | But I should like to make it clear that the suggestion that BAT has been ‘ dumping ’ this pesticide in Kenya has not foundation of truth whatsoever . |
| 17 | But I will try to give it up . |
| 18 | I have n't watched it , but I 'd love to watch it if ever I |
| 19 | I I I I I er I could n't have it done cos of work but I 'd love to have it done . |
| 20 | But I 'd like to see it for myself . |
| 21 | But I 'd like to finish it off . ’ |
| 22 | If I forget it , it 's not desperate but I 'd like to take it . |
| 23 | Perhaps it was n't very subtle , but I 'd like to think it was funny . |
| 24 | Could I just raise one quick issue which I was going to mention under any other business but I 'd like to get it out of the way , and that is er the departure . |
| 25 | I do n't know if we can tell really much about such things , but I 'd have said it was n't from the same man . ’ |
| 26 | The time to consider whether one wishes to opt out and whether one was opposed to a certain system is always when a decision has been made , but I 'd have thought it would have been far in the interests of the people of Banbury and the children and parents of Banbury if they 'd taken full advantage of the discussion on the tertiary college and had made their opinions known , and in the light of the results coming out and say a satisfactory decision had arisen that was frankly the time to get into the business of opting out . |
| 27 | ‘ But someone could have rung it and run off ? ’ |
| 28 | I know , but you shall have to bring it home wo n't you ? |
| 29 | This board can be purchased from the EE PCB Service code EE792 ) , but you might want to make it yourself ! |
| 30 | But you might like to see it . |