Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it appears from what the county council has said that they are they 're not necessarily opposed to this sort of development that we 're we 're looking at here but that er the case would have to be proven as an exception to normal planning policy . |
| 2 | Ah , we was we was talking about going about somewhere but er , we changed our mind in the end , cos it was er |
| 3 | I suppose yeah but you , you , sometimes you get the hole wears does n't it were the er blade is and all this business so you get a great wadge of wood jamming in there but er , I could do spending a few hundred quid on tools , but what can you do ? |
| 4 | There was a place he lived further down the glen and the old farmer said I 've no objections to you going in there but give me your pipe . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not going to now but I might get two . ’ |
| 6 | We were going to once but when it came to it you did n't have the money for the licence . |
| 7 | A few years ago they were making some of the best pop singles you could play on a jukebox : ‘ Something About You ’ , ‘ Leaving Me Now ’ , ‘ Lessons In Love ’ , all the kind of thing that you felt you were going to be sick of hearing before long but which still sounded good after the thousandth time . |
| 8 | There 's no telling how significant an upgrade we 're talking about here but the idea sounds nifty and Weitek has to redeem its Sparc investment somehow . |
| 9 | Oh yes , yes the erm , the main one was the Transport and General Workers ' Union which erm , did all the drivers , conductors and cleaners and semi-skilled staff but erm you had the erm N U V B which is the National Union and Vehicle Builders and of course you had the Electrical Trades People , so they , they were all working in there but the main one covering most of the men was the Transport and General Workers ' Union . |
| 10 | No it is n't , it is n't gon na away but when you go back to these figures we 've actually been working , if you wo if you accept that there 's been , there 's no change in our situation apart from auto-offs and units |
| 11 | Well we were gon na really but you know , |