Example sentences of "but [pron] [be] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After many years and three gardens , the optimism is going well ; I still battle with my impatience , but I am finally coming to grips with giving the essentials of sustenance to the garden . |
| 2 | But I am also sitting in Dr Serafin 's study , with an essay on sense-data in my hand . |
| 3 | The then Opposition spokesman said that would quickly be done , but I am still waiting for Labour Members to choose the subject for debate in the Select Committee . |
| 4 | The moralistic female I was particularly thinking of was George Eliot , because Nietzsche , the German writer , actually complained that she was a particularly moralistic female , but I was also thinking of people like Mrs Henry Wood and Amy Le Fevre and a few others like that . |
| 5 | distinction between attempting to respond on the basis of behaviour , or a response based on whether or not there 's a victim , can carry you a certain way , but I was just thinking of some of the discussions we 've had in college recently about the sort of behaviour with which we feel uncomfortable , and I have to say that sometimes it would be difficult to identify a given victim or , you know , a group of given victims . |
| 6 | But I was just gon na say , it 's understandable |
| 7 | Once it was my turn to hit but I was just sitting on the ground and was thinking about something else . ’ |
| 8 | It was a cold night and I had no overcoat but I was soon sweating with the effort of carrying the suitcase . |
| 9 | I mean , I did n't think , Well , he could float in space , and it never occurred to me to ask where Sooty himself had come from , or the wand , but I was already heading towards not believing , I suppose . |
| 10 | erm Darwin says in the origin , and I 'm sorry I ca n't read it to you , but I was desperately looking for the quotation in the origin before I can and I could n't find it but I assure you it 's there erm in which he remarks that in all probability the periods of time during which species are not changing is probably very large compared with those periods when change is taking place . |
| 11 | I said walkers should make a courtesy check with estates when doing a specific trek in Wester Ross , but I was only referring to the peak of the stalking period — mid-August to mid October — and not the whole year . , |
| 12 | ‘ But I was forever thinking about you . |
| 13 | ‘ Karel played a good match but I was always struggling with my timing . |
| 14 | Well I suppose you 're erm er addressing some of those different aspects as it is but again y'know in a sense I 'm happy if you 're happy but I 'm just thinking of different ways of doing it |
| 15 | Now then if you look , I 'll just take , this applies to all of you but I 'm just gon na take for example role play number one you will have some details you 'll have gathered from erm the previous role play . |
| 16 | Not taking the fact that he 's gon na have an injury or anything but I 'm just saying in case something does happen . |
| 17 | I got off with Andrew but that 's all a p only a who I get off with him and I do n't fancy him , I know I do n't want to go out with him I just fancy him for the occasional snog , fair enough but I 'm just saying like you know you fancy |
| 18 | ‘ But I 'm just going to the loo . |
| 19 | Now time is nearly on us but I 'm just going to rapidly refer you to procedures on death . |
| 20 | I 'm not usually a fan of active pickups , but I 'm rapidly succumbing to the Eggle 's charms in this department , too . |
| 21 | I do n't know what I 'm doing April yet but I 'm definitely working in March . |
| 22 | If , if you look in your books page one seven seven , you 'll see a beautifully illustrated instruction on how to do it , which you can refer to yourself this evening or later on in the course if you forget but I 'm now gon na show you how to do one as well , you , if you want to know it 's there for you to look up you take the bandage and fold it into your narrow fold band and put it round your leg , you 've got something to tie a reef knot round , okay ? if you know how to do a reef knot already fine , just do it , if you do n't , follow instructions . |
| 23 | Last year 's holiday was great , last year , and I might get a bit of enjoyment out of looking at the photographs , but I 'm still paying for one again this year ! |
| 24 | Sub-optimality occurs when one department makes a decision which appears to be a good one , from the departmental point of view , but which is actually damaging to the organisation as a whole . |
| 25 | No , but you 're just looking at the pen . |
| 26 | But you 're just waiting for it to happen . ’ |
| 27 | How often do you meet and how many people there , you 're showing interest but you 're also qualifying at the same time and it 's not padding , it 's actually useful information because you 're thinking well that 's worth pursuing the R N I , yes but there 's money there . |
| 28 | But if you 're in a situation where that 's not possible then you 'll do the very best you can , but you 're always going to be on the look out for the priorities as they change , cos once the person stops breathing they become unconscious , they stop breathing , their heart stops , then everything else has to wait and you have to try and get on with that , okay ? |
| 29 | you know , thrash all night long on a Saturday night you 're gon na have fifty , sixty people who think it 's wonderful but you 're never gon na get more than fifty , sixty people . |
| 30 | Yes but you 're never gon na get that , I mean that 's |