Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's almost mesmeric as well is n't it , this repetition of now , now , now between between the but as as you were saying , it 's sketching all the details in so you , if you were sketching a fox , you know you begin somewhere and say you begin with the nose you 've just got a little detail the nose and the eyes but eventually you 've got to put the whole sketch in . |
| 2 | He does n't know any engine drivers but then he does n't know many men . |
| 3 | Plainly , individual journalists have individual styles but ultimately they have to turn the result of meeting you into the type of article their publication requires . |
| 4 | Raith Rovers are hardly world beaters but then they haf a little help from the referee who gave them a dodgy penalty and turn down two good penalty appeals in the last two minutes . |
| 5 | The police come along and things go quiet for a couple of months but then they come back again . ’ |
| 6 | By day the alleys that ran into a scruffy hinterland were rat-hole rubbish traps but now they seemed romantic lanes where lovers might meet under the bracket lamps and as the sun departed , watch the moon ride over a Grimms ' fairy tale huddle of pinnacled rooftops . |
| 7 | There are no absolute rights and wrongs but sometimes we tend to use convenience a lot more than imagination and quality ! |
| 8 | So I mean is certainly makes sense on the background and very calmly by er Mr saying very positive so I ca n't hold my hand up and pick out particular in which they , some of them er never change opposition District Council that their negative response if you like but there were , there were some positive responses but only I have to say this for something like four er proposed paper and one of those in which er lots of in which relevance and er businesses in the area could have er the thing that er response was er this this partic particular phrase would seem to be saying trouble erm er identified . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , it does not succeed on limey soils but otherwise it needs the same conditions as the brunneras . |
| 10 | Well it 's been there for the past two weeks but now he 's gone to l get a house . |
| 11 | Erm I 've played with Clyde Ladies for about five years but previously I played with Stewarton . |
| 12 | Well I , he lived at Stowmarket for years but then I heard not so long ago that they had moved to Ipswich but where I do n't know but they must be , whether he 's than I have now I do n't know either . |
| 13 | But now they are closing them we 've got so many good teachers out of work where ten years ago we were fighting to get good teachers and smaller classes but now you see , we 've got smaller classes |
| 14 | Then when we came out we s went around London to see the sights but the decorations but why we went I did n't think anything to them at all this year . |
| 15 | You do n't monitor day in and day out , hanging over the shoulders of individuals but periodically you go in and question why people are not meeting deadlines they 've agreed to . |
| 16 | haaland is a central defender and sundgot is an attacker ; both talented — though i value fat-frank far higher than sundgot. so two vikings at forest and three ( ! ) at oldham — so norway 's tally just keeps growing as the biggest contigent of non-english players — which is quite amazing — for years we had just the odd-player like aage hareide ( man city and norwich ) , einar aass ( nott forest — i imagine his english team-mates had some fun with his name : - ] ) and erik the viking at spurs but nowadays you need a computer to have control … |
| 17 | Right , so , you know , there 's no econo-matrixes by no means the science and you can essentially get the computer to er tell the story that you want simply by choosing er critical values but nevertheless we 've re probably be reasonably confident in our estimate , particularly if those estimates , we 'll just go back to them , er the er display the regression results again , display them again but those coefficients are elasticities , right , they 're cored with our a priori reasoning right , we put ah , unit elasticity , you may want to test the hypothesis that the elasticity on erm the income variable , that income elasticity is significant given one , just generate computer a T ratio in the hypothesis value being one instead of zero , as in a normal T test , right , and that coefficient point nine five is sufficiently close to one , by looking at the standard error to er further that is an estimate of one you 've got very inelastic er demand erm for the , the textiles , that coefficient , is that the time , I ca n't believe it if that 's all , oh no that 's eight , do n't worry |
| 18 | Mr. Kemp is entitled to his opinions but why he chooses to express them in such flippant and dismissive manner is puzzling . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't play in the five-asides but then I did n't play in them much before because I tend to get too argumentative and carried away sometimes . ’ |
| 20 | Phil soon became one of Laura 's closest associates but even he recognized that ‘ she was n't an easy person to work with , I think anyone will tell you that . |
| 21 | I think erm I think is quite fair maybe if concessions could be raised to one fifty or two pounds but overall I think that people who can afford it spend such a lot of money on the raffle and we therefore give raffle tickets to those who can afford it could jealousy and on the raffle generally about a hundred pounds is made and if there , if there was more charge for tickets , people might not give so much for the raffles and also if you give but if you charge them a nominal sum and then shove other things at them on their options they might be more willing to give to optional choices like a raffle . |
| 22 | Carrie was good at stories but sometimes she stopped in the middle and had to be prodded . |
| 23 | ‘ Can You Shake ’ is pure sixties melody with the inevitable jangling guitars and wah-wah- wahs but somehow it manages to dodge all the worst cliches that usually accompany this sort of workout . |
| 24 | The aims of the work operated in different ways but principally they represented my attempt to set personal responses to premature labour into a cultural context . |
| 25 | Yeah but I , but I cos I can see the arguments but then I mean I 'm just not , I 'm not entirely sure whether i i it could n't work , that it could n't work being a middle peasant economy and that these erm these inequalities would er sort of |
| 26 | Industrialization and urbanization did not destroy either domestic relations or kin relations but clearly they did — as Harris has put it — transform their character ( Harris , 1983 , p. 130 ) . |
| 27 | She tried to act flippant by shrugging her shoulders and holding out her palms but inside she felt far from flippant . |
| 28 | He had not brought his writing tray or materials but mentally he went through each of the deaths he had investigated , trying to fix a pattern , with little success . |
| 29 | You may be expecting some kind of platform game with bouncing mushrooms but instead you need a fair bit of brain power too ! |
| 30 | It is possible to harden the heart against a Ballesteros in these moods but then he goes and does something sublime on the course , hits a shot that no one else would conceive , let alone execute , and one realises here is genius in sport . |