Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | A very strange way of writing it again but basically it comes down to the following . |
| 2 | I mean I know we 're we 're bodging it again but I mean |
| 3 | We thought about celebrating it early but Kelly seemed to see Christmas Day as something to work towards . |
| 4 | But you I think I think w er well it 's no good saying it now but I do n't think you can ask one person under the heat of all that to count up separate |
| 5 | it was done in a very un-run way , because the notice , the notice was , was er it 'd be up about a couple of days and then it 'd come down , you see , so it did n't give anybody a lot of chance , but anyway now it 's been passed you see it goes ahead and that 's all there is to it , he , he has n't start doing it yet but |
| 6 | to be delivered in one statement show you what the chances are you 'll be doing it anyway but not erm what you are actually doing purpose you 'll always be followed by a tentative benefit always be followed by cheque standing or in this case tell me how does that . |
| 7 | Thirdly , people reach a stage of what we conscious competence in that they 're very aware of what they 're doing and they 're doing it correctly but they 're still at that stage where they 're fairly new and they 're very conscious of what they 're doing . |
| 8 | You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think . |
| 9 | They 've got instruments for doing it now but I used to stick to my bit of stick . |
| 10 | After a plain breakfast they went out again , still taking it slowly but this time with more of a distance in mind . |
| 11 | They 're now even on to the vile Trade Union Reform Bill , they 're accepting it admittedly but but they 're accepting it , but it 's in the wrong Bill it 's in the wrong place it should be up in the front . |
| 12 | Her hair felt rough and unpleasant to the touch because she was no longer washing it properly but improvising with a kettle of hot water in the kitchen sink . |
| 13 | Yeah mhm yeah I mean you may want to select some stuff that 's y'know that represents different kinds of things because as I remember our conversations earlier , you were interested in er y'know sort of ideological soundness , political correctness and y'know were some things funny but sort of off-colour for other reasons erm er I 'm paraphrasing it badly but er y'know I think that th s so you might want to get some stuff that 's sort of ideologically sound and humorous and er some stuff that 's a bit off-colour and humorous and some stuff that 's erm sort of I do n't know some stuff that 's main stream but has got a lot of y'know if you look at something like say The Two Ronnies or something , there 's a lot of there 's a lot of racism and sexism in there but it 's because it 's sort of main stream because it 's family viewing and stuff like that people tend not to think of it as problematic . |
| 14 | Echo claims to circumvent the problem of trespassing on Apple 's jealously guarded ToolBox by not needing it anywhere but on the target machine , which in this case Apple will provide . |
| 15 | I have never had any difficulty crossing it here but if you are walking in , or just after , a deluge of rain it mist be better to avoid the area by following the path along the western side of the river . |
| 16 | The stone had been raised high just as Wexford was raising it now but brought down that time on the back of Hatton 's skull . |