Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] 've [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Perhaps I 'm kind of emotionally retarded … but basically I 've just written about things how I 've felt about them , myself , emotionally .
2 But obviously you 've never known love .
3 Yeah but like I 've still got more than well it 's about the same cos you 've got less at the top I think .
4 Oh we used to do one with erm the band , sometimes I 'd get it right , others I would n't , but like you 've just said they come
5 In those days they lived next door but now they 've only got their offices there .
6 But now I 've just done a refill .
7 But then they 've always got the threat of er er er I mean at the moment there really is n't that threat is there ?
8 No er some people have suggested buying Skodas , but then we 've still got the problem of what to do with the rest of the money .
9 ‘ I could n't really see us doing another ‘ Pills ‘ N ’ Thrills'-type thing , but then we 've always done exactly what we 've liked , always been a little bit different .
10 But then we 've always had a spare bedroom have n't we , only having the one child .
11 Yes , erm well I I 've not done a wedding in a church actually yet , but then I 've only done three weddings , and , but the most interesting one was in a Brock in Glenelg and erm , that was quite exciting because the couple really thought about the service and they had selected that sight because it meant something to them , and involved the whole community and thereabout , and it was great !
12 Perhaps I would n't want to do it before an audience but then I 've never performed for others .
13 But then I 've always done what I probably should n't .
14 Oh yeah , but then you 've also got to watch I mean that I 'd , sometimes I 'd muck things up when I 've given too much choice I think
15 Sorry I ca n't stay , but then you 've already got company . ’
16 if we can resolve it with cos then you 're getting summat on a different style of thinking to that , you know , I know Fred does n't wan na be involved but then you 've always got somebody , well we 'll have to go and see Fred first .
17 Now , you , you could have the linear ordering that 's an alternative proposal erm , but then you 've actually got erm you 've got to come up with a kind of proper account of these structures of how they come about and of the relation and then you 've got to check it out against all the other data and all I can say is as it happens , I 've tried that and it does n't work but that 's only and we want to find out if you can see that the quite a long way .
18 But unfortunately I 've nowhere to stay here either . ’
19 But actually I 've just bought the best electro-acoustic I 've ever seen or heard — a Takamine .
20 The first and foremost , most people do n't like using them , but secondly we 've already paid for this service in our rates and taxes , you know , when we pay our rates though , we pay for these toilets to be clean and all that sort of thing do n't we ?
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