Example sentences of "[adj] but [conj] [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 Are quite high but when you come down then you same size .
2 Our language can never be entirely value free but when you speak or write you need to think carefully of the effect it is having on others .
3 I 've learnt a lot of things — how to bath a baby , feed a baby , it sounds dead simple but when you get that baby in your hands you 're shaking .
4 normally after + very heavy rain + or something like that + and + you 're driving along the road + and + far away + you see + well + er + a series + of + stripes + + formed like a bow + an arch + + very very far away + ah + seven colours but + + I guess you hardly ever see seven it 's just a + a series of + colours which + they seem to be separate but if you try to look for the separate ( kAz ) — colours they always seem + very hard + to separate + if you see what I mean ++ ( Postgraduate student speaking informally )
5 I mean it 's not gon na be , it 's not gon na be easy but if we start developing it erm there 's no reason
6 Erm Only trouble , there 's a snare drum you can turn it onto snare or ordinary but when you have it on snare , if you play or anything it rattles !
7 And if you if you compare those diagonal markings with the sorts of markings on on er some of these other stones , these these are a bit diagonal but if you look carefully they go there 're some going in that direction and some are going that direction .
8 If you do n't know what they mean i anything if you do n't know how to do it it 's hard but if you do n't even know what they mean it 's very hard to work out what 's going on is n't it and what you 're supposed to be doing .
9 I said well what you do in your private life it 's up to you if you want to get drunk and you want to spend money then that 's fine but once you step over that clock tower I said and you start interfering with my work it 's a different thing , I said well I 've and I 've just said nothing because although you ai n't worked right , at least you 've sort of you 've work in this factory sort of in the morning , you 've got over it but
10 I think the National but when you win its your fairy tale come true .
11 Cos I do n't normally snore unless I get a cold but when I get a cold I fucking
12 Just because you can do something well does not mean that you are not brainy but when you show your academic prowess along practical lines you are not considered by this government to be of the same worth as someone who can recall knowledge on one day .
13 What he 's talking about and this is the same erm same councillor who was talking about living harmoniously side by side those that have are are buying them , those that are renting them but what he 's actually saying is well I 'm actually very , very sorry but if you have n't a job , if you have n't an income or you 're income is so low , just go over there and stay away from us decent chaps with lots of cash .
14 And unfortunately second half it did n't come right but as I say we 've got a point out of it so we still you know , kept ourselves unbeaten for a game or two , so we 've just got to try keep it going and take it from there .
15 You get the first week will seem a bit strange but once you get the first week over you 're alright then .
16 These examples have been chosen not because they are necessarily typical or representative but because they illustrate interesting practices which are now underway to a greater or lesser extent both across different areas of adult education , ( Local Education Authority , mainstream provision , Further Education colleges , the Responsible Bodies ) and outside the formal boundaries of adult education ( an employment project , and the Trades Union Congress Centres ) .
17 Okay , so when you come to look at these videos , okay , slightly exaggerated but if you go down to court , and you might like to go down to the hall or somewhere locally , you 'll actually find that there are advocates who do what did deliberately wrong and what did deliberately wrong .
18 ‘ farmers do not make the best Group Organisers : not because they are less effective but because they have insufficient time ’ ( this from seven respondents )
19 It may be inconvenient or pricey but if you get angry about it , they wo n't ring you next time .
20 All of these fish have appeared only recently in any numbers and some of them are still extremely rare and pricey but if you do see any of them and have the money , I would recommend you buy them .
21 yeah , not so , so confident but if you do n't make the attempt
22 I actually think Black was fouled but as you say he makes a bit of a song and dance about it .
23 Fergie offered no real argument on the dismissal of Hughes , saying : ‘ The referee was a bit fussy but when you take the ball away as Mark did , when already booked , then it 's automatic that you go . ’
24 Fergie offered no real argument on the dismissal of Hughes , saying : ‘ The referee was a bit fussy but when you take the ball away as Mark did , when already booked , then it 's automatic that you go . ’
25 and if you 're having physio that 's , that 's good but like you say
26 From a distance her eyes are dark black but if you look closely you see a ring of dark brown around the pupil .
27 Thus a crack two microns deep has twice the surface energy of a crack one micron deep but as we have seen it releases four times as much strain energy .
28 ‘ If they make an impact next season great but if they need time to develop they will get it .
29 It does n't make them more adventurous but when they do climb you can see them looking for footholds .
30 Well , you 'll just have to tell them that it 's missing but when I 've paid for a newspaper I expect to get all the pieces that I 've paid for and I 've already paid for mine , so this I 'll take .
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