Example sentences of "[prep] it but [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impression I got was that Leeds started off REALLY well with a totally dominant mid-field , that West Ham started to make a game of it but that the weather got worse & worse and the game just degenerated . |
| 2 | But that we get a balance right between the amount of regulations an and the cost of it but that it is in a sense , effective and and the plea I would make to my honourable friend when he considers this P I A prospectus and what should be done and wh to what extent the government feels it should support it , is that what we actually want is not a specific requirement that says you 've got to have this much , that much capital erm and so on , but that there is a function , there is a regular audit trail , there is a a regular , annual look at the figures , the accounts of all these intermediaries , er and firms where the difficulty has been er in the past . |
| 3 | If they say no , it might not be because they do n't like the sound of it but because their lists are already full and they are unable to take on any more . |
| 4 | We 've had a good living out of it but if that same system has brought them on their feet , you know and built them nice homes er right they 've delved into Company 's House now , all the dirty water not dirty water all the whatsit has come up how much they 've drawn from these quarries . |
| 5 | Like , if he gets two you lose all of it but if he rolls a twelve you get your hundred pound back plus ten times that amount . |
| 6 | She says before you were aware of it but until it happens , it really gives you such a jolt . |
| 7 | But that , that 's just one little part of it but and because there 's been a lot of quite worldwide travel of young people , not perhaps on a massive scale , but at least the young people of each country are more thinking more of them |
| 8 | Because it was before just before we moved the offices but it 's kicking around somewhere in an envelope with my name on the front of it but where I would n't know . |
| 9 | In the process area , there have been major developments in catalysts for polypropylene manufacture and in the technology for making chlorine and also ammonia — both very mature products indeed on the face of it but where the story has by no means ended , even after a century . |
| 10 | I can probably get something towards it but but not |
| 11 | Er , Chairman the , the only advice that I can give Dr on that point is to say that the county council is not letting them down er the funding for major road schemes is provided by central government and we make a contribution towards it but if central government do not give us permission to go ahead with the race road scheme in terms of a grant , then in fact it will not go ahead and in that situation they may be let down , that is their judgement and that should be reflected in the way they vote at parliamentary elections . |
| 12 | I began ‘ Great Expectations ’ with a very negative view towards it but as I read on I began to really enjoy it . |
| 13 | I mean , when we 're all like , laughing and joking and everything he 's like , oh yeah really in with it but when everyone 's like arguing or whatever he he |
| 14 | Mind you it seemed that they had a test at school last week and he was n't terribly happy with it , he said he could n't understand it , he tried to explain to me what it was , but erm , it 's not , not easy , but Ga Gavin said erm , he said they 'd had a test and he said it took him time to get into it but once he got into it , you know , he did alright in it , I think he said how many he got , he did n't seem to do too badly , but he said Alex did n't really do anything and what he did do he thought was wrong so he did n't hand it in , he said and in actual fact what he had done was right , so I do n't know , I told , I told Alex to go and see , you know , and ask about it and sort of erm , apparently he did do that so at least he 'll know , but erm , it 's strange really because normally Alex |
| 15 | got a flash and that in it but and I thought well her own pictures she takes Christmas |
| 16 | The key signature actually has a B flat in it but because in a harmonic minor if you remember you raise that |
| 17 | The report is more interesting than by the member for South East Derbyshire er not that there 's much sex in it but if er er i it 's more interesting er sexual favours provided by B C C I officials to certain persons affiliated er with the firm . |
| 18 | He ca n't see any harm in it but when I 've found him watching blue movies , I 've felt suicidal . |
| 19 | The Green Belt around London has been preserved not because someone put a price on it but because voters in the Home Counties wanted to stop the city sprawling outwards seemingly for ever . |
| 20 | We could , of course , try sympathetic detonation by dropping a depth charge on it but as we would be in the immediate vicinity at the time I do n't think that would be a very good idea . ’ |
| 21 | Coaxing is another and sycophancy is another — you put your own interpretation on it but if it gets a good show , then it 's all a matter of semantics . |
| 22 | then I think that we ought to comment on it but if we are doing media response |
| 23 | Yes I think that 's the sort of thing when you 're a defender the goalkeeper s the goalkeeper 's almost on it but if you 're not sure you get rid of the thing and then say turn round to the keeper sorry pall but I 'm playing safe . |
| 24 | You got a good hiding for it but but that was it . |
| 25 | There was nothing for it but that she visit the company directors in person and see if she could persuade them of her determination to rebuild the business . |
| 26 | Yeah but I shall go for it but if any other jobs come up at the hospital I 'll apply for them |
| 27 | We think it might be voles , we think it could be squirrels , we do n't seriously think it 's anything bigger but I 'm afraid we do n't think there 's anything you can do about it but if you want further investigation then if you send these objects to Fred care of the programme , he will give you a personal diagnosis . |
| 28 | Can I make the point that if you do n't get to the parents of kids kids , before the end of summer term you could be jeopardising the chances of what they 're doing in the SATS because if you get to the parent erm in the beginning of the spring term and say you know , Fred is not doing particularly well because of this the parents are then in a position to do something about it but if you actually tell them once , basically the stable doors closed what can |
| 29 | Britain 's manufacturing base is declining not just because the Conservative party seems to care so little about it but because of so many companies ' wilful refusal to respond to changing market signals . |
| 30 | I 'd read all about it but when you 've actually got it , it 's horrible . |