Example sentences of "but [unc] [adj] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lords for reasons that have already been explained to Your Lordships and which I will not pursue yet for , er it seems that everybody 's agreed that it is important that the erm local authority representatives should be in the majority and I have to admit that my amendments do not go that far because I was concentrating on getting the magistrates back where they ought to be , er but er that is one thing , the other is that it er was an interesting point that er the Noble Lord , Lord of Greenwich raised , that my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw er at columns four eighty and four eight one er questioned whether it was indeed appropriate that er the Home Secretary should make these appointments . |
| 2 | Er now Who was that er well not who was that but er that 's another record from er the Music Quiz competition , What 's Christmassy about that record ? |
| 3 | Erm but er that was this boy 's job and then he used to er you know , scrub the tables in the rest room and of course boil the water first thing in the morning . |
| 4 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 5 | As I say , I 'd al been in things at chapel , Silas Marner and things , but er this was another thing , and of course , that 's where I met my wife , at er Row , which is the boys ' clu was the boys ' club 's Headquarters . |
| 6 | To sell it of course , but erm that was another facet of it . |