Example sentences of "[to-vb] it but [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You have got to accept it but it 's absolutely maddening that 30,000 people saw a good tackle but the referee gave a foul . |
| 2 | Well erm you see although I learned shorthand and typing it was better money and that was the reason I had to do it , I 've passed my exams in shorthand but er probably there were n't enough offices then to employ a good many clerks , but erm they er it was a very big fellow who used to ring the bell and the bell was on the outside , he was named Tom but I ca n't for the life of me think erm what his other name was but , erm it used to put the fear through us I can tell you if we were around the corner and we heard that bell ringing but erm they , they were a good firm to work for and , but they were strict but everywhere was strict in those days , we had to accept it but it was a long long hours , but erm they knew I had some , I , I enjoyed it and I 'd go back again only I 'm too old . |
| 3 | Frankie picked up the empty kettle and went to refill it but I noticed that none of the onlookers tried to wring his neck while he had the kettle in his hands . |
| 4 | ‘ I remember some scientists visited the school a year ago and tried to find it but their search failed . |
| 5 | I might be able to find it but I did n't put no I ca n't |
| 6 | But er the school , I think it was Rudling I , I 've often tried to find it but I I 'm not sure which one i , you know , for |
| 7 | Erm the only thing that occurred to me I just wondered if she knew somebody who had a dearly loved dog that , did n't want to train it but you know she could perhaps just take along for the joy of running it and training it but I think part of the pleasure is the reflected glory you know it 's my dog |
| 8 | I happen to know it but I think it would be wrong of me to disclose it tonight er this evening . |
| 9 | I think of dashing off to the loo to drink it but I decide to wait . |
| 10 | What 's more , someone will have to stay to receive it but there 's no problem getting one of the tank farm operators to do that because they know the tanker driver . |
| 11 | It was but er the market was so low that he decided not to well I do n't think he could get a buyer actually , it 's just stood there so he he he let it out rather than have it stood there with the option for us to buy it but I say now the prices are lower he 's not keen on selling it at that price . |
| 12 | er , it depends on one 's own tastes , I personally do n't like the open planned that I 've seen in very modern houses where , erm I , I do n't quite know how to express it but it does seem to me odd to be on one floor level and then two feet up you 're on another level and er , that 's one aspect of the open plan that does n't appeal to me and I do n't quite understand why it 's necessary to have everything that 's going on in one room with pieces of furniture designed to act as barriers between the different functions or purposes for which you give parts of the room . |
| 13 | So it helps first of all when you 're setting up the spreadsheet I suppose you can create one formula then copy it instead of having to edit each one individually , erm but later on you might accidentally or maybe deliberately in some cases overtype a cell and er if you have to put it back again and what you probably do is copy it from the adjacent cell and then you have to study the formula to try and understand it , and then edit it if it was n't the copyable formula and , er it may take a little time to edit it but it could take you a lot longer to understand it . |
| 14 | Social Services or somebody to do with or somewhere contacted him and asked him to do it but they paid all cash . |
| 15 | And bothered yourself with it , you know how to do it but you do n't ca n't be bothered to do it . |
| 16 | She wants to do it but she 's terrified at the same time . |
| 17 | She does n't know how to do it but she knows what to ask and how to get there . |
| 18 | No , I do n't want to do it but I mean I 'm not I 'm certainly happier than I have been about it if |
| 19 | Erm John 's Dream the National Playwright 's Network actually wrote back to me and said they 're quite happy to read your plays for a fee erm but I intend to re-write that before I put it in er for a reading erm Oh , I I sent a poem called Pleasure to Woman 's Weekly in June last year and I suspect they were actually planning to use it but they 've had a New Year 's clear-out and I got it back yesterday . |
| 20 | Well I 'm not sure I mean it 's interest I mean the the Council erm with another the Council looked upon attendances of the things Council do and many people who use the facilities in Harlow will argue we do n't get anything like this where we live and we always find it like that you know it 's that sort of mentality where people in Harlow may or may not say well course you get it in Harlow we expect it it 's just there it just saves we know it 's getting them people to use it but I talk to people I 'm sure people who live in Harlow or the Council to people and Harlow people tend to think well yes yes it 's all with always it 's always there . |
| 21 | I wanted very much to give it but he could see I could n't . |
| 22 | I tried to imitate it but I could n't do it . |
| 23 | Uncle tried to teach me to ride it but I did n't really become proficient because I was scared of falling off , and the area around Low Birk Hatt was n't much good for cycling . |
| 24 | I 'd like to put one simple note and I think it 'll have to be simple for him to understand it but I would like to put one simple notion to him and that is that there is great merit in having public services sharing by people from all social classes . |
| 25 | Next year Minnie I will be forty and hardly able to believe it but I am resolved to make great changes with the help of a hard winter 's work . |
| 26 | Some would like to forget it but it wo n't go away . |
| 27 | Because I I mean I because she had asked me originally to keep it but I keep mine all separate until you asked me for it . |
| 28 | John , who will wave goodbye to his treasured motor at Sotheby 's saleroom in Billingshurst , West Sussex , said : ‘ I 'd love to keep it but there is n't room at home . |
| 29 | Oh yeah you you have to erase it but nobody 's gon na sa , I mean to say , nobody knows who you are , what you 've said anyway at all , do they ? |
| 30 | I did n't like to mention it but she er came in |