Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] but it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bid around £2 million for him shortly after I arrived but it was turned down . |
| 2 | This was not actually what I meant but it was reported as a sort of ‘ leadership whinge ’ and general complaint . |
| 3 | And then I switched over and I thought but it 's a about this little boy . |
| 4 | And I I went but it was so embarrassing it made me ill . |
| 5 | I , I morning , I , she get what I said when you get one , I went and got you one I said but it was one ninety nine . |
| 6 | I mean that one out there is , like the same as the one I had but it 's E F five which is fuel efficient , you know , like it 's got the extra fuel efficient , and it really is it 's good on petrol . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought it was a weakness I had but it was n't — it proved to be my strength . |
| 8 | This is what a girl in Borstal meant when she said to me , ‘ I gave him everything I had but it was n't enough ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I worked all my life and saved so I would have no worry when I retired but it 's a different story now . |
| 10 | So you 've had a sharp increase in our shareholders ' funds during the six months and a reduction in our net debt which may not be quite as er substantial as you expected but it is the combination of on the one hand the proceeds of Elsivir less some reinvestment which Frank mentioned , we put a little more money in B S B and the minority interests and we do have traditionally in the first half an adverse net movement of funds from operation about ninety five million and then we had thirty two million odd er of simply revaluation as a result of translating our dollar debt at er the one sixty as opposed to the year ending rate . |
| 11 | C'm on Morocco ! ’ she cheered but it was half-hearted . |
| 12 | Gee up ! ’ she repeated but it was no good , the horse stood still . |
| 13 | Yes , it was the Felipe de Santis she remembered but it was also the man she had had harsh words with this morning — the driver of the red Porsche . |
| 14 | Or else you sort of jotted them down at the back of your mind , you know , to think about them later , but you never remembered , or you did but it was too late , they 'd gone , your head was full of other things . ’ |
| 15 | She said alright it 's twenty five quid , it 's an expense but she said but it 's something that she 'll keep . |
| 16 | I know what you said but it is n't even dried yet . |
| 17 | No cos they bent round and we had a tie , we did but it was only a little bannister you know , we tried it |
| 18 | No , this one yo , well we had but it was n't a fast tan . |
| 19 | We 're nothing , of ourselves we might have thought we had but it was of no value whatsoever , but he took us , he says , now you 're something because you belong to me . |
| 20 | Some we chased but it was only a matter of chasing them out of the way . |
| 21 | I said no , I wished they did but it 's |
| 22 | They had but it was erm , much less satisfactory as a U R C one |
| 23 | And he gets about , he did n't say what he got but it 's over the twenty three thousand drawings that er they 're worried about the level of er tax , you know , for the next |
| 24 | And if some , er , jus it was very thin slices of beef , topside of well I thought I 'll get some beef out , and I did it in the microwave and it cooked but it was it was quite tough . |
| 25 | Well there 's been speculation about that , but no nobody can actually tell us how it began but it 's it 's easy enough to imagine how it began , I think . |
| 26 | it hurt but it 's gon na feel . |
| 27 | On Wednesday night he did but it was n't Bangor wearing their usual strip … they are also Apoel Nicosia 's colours and it was the Cypriots who squeezed through 3-2 on aggregate . |
| 28 | Perhaps the display asked more questions than it answered but it 's clear that the young stars are staking claims early . |
| 29 | Adam could not know if he had but it was quite possible . |
| 30 | The Drove should be forty seven he said but it 's an odd amount . |