Example sentences of "[pers pn] but [conj] [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know about you but once I pick these Mills and Boone books up I ca n't stop reading the flipping things . |
| 2 | If you go to see this football club to watch the football match , you are not allowed to park on the grass verge outside because the police do n't let you but if you go to a car boot sale at the football club the next day the cars , the grass verge is littered with cars cos it 's Sunday presumably and the police are not allowed to enforce on it so I do think that some of the traffic problems maybe need to be more carefully reinforced to stop this , you know , to stop the dealers you 're not going tyo these places but you know I think you do need to , you do need to , to regulate them but please , you know , do n't let's push them out altogether . |
| 3 | But what date it was I could n't tell you but if you like to mind when when they first started . |
| 4 | You go inside then please go on you can take that with you but if you want the potty you g go and sit on it now cos I do n't want any more wet trousers . |
| 5 | I had hoped you would be able to help me but since you say you ca n't I shall have to pursue other avenues . |
| 6 | If I was born in that period , I would be dead already , and you would n't need to listen to me But if you look at this as far as the medical profession and the insurance profession need each other , what happened to these people when they develop an infective condition ? |
| 7 | ‘ I do trust George completely ’ Annette went on ‘ I just have to with his work and so much he ca n't tell me but when he come back in that state I just could n't help … |
| 8 | If you can hear me you must be within five or six miles of them but if they get to the Motorway first they 'll be able to lose you . |
| 9 | She really has this er attitude which I can not understand because erm a a as I think it was Al Reeve said , you know , erm some people ca n't bear children , we ca n't , but we like them but if you have actually borne children , you are in other words a mother , you 've got ta have a attitude , not only to children in general but to your children in particular , which is very very difficult for er a male to understand and a non-father , it 's gon na be very very difficult cos I personally do n't have any children at all and therefore it is very very difficult for me to even comprehend but given that I can erm I can sympathize with something I do not comprehend it must be monumentally difficult for her |
| 10 | The number of people to whom he is a friend , if not because he has met them but because they know of the good works that he has done not only in Britain but throughout the world , must run into many hundreds of thousands . |
| 11 | So , perhaps it was her or and er tend to like her but but I think he , what he says he means . |
| 12 | Yeah she she 's I I hardly ever see her but when I do |
| 13 | I mean this is something that we could maybe be of help to in fact maybe something that I could be of help to them on because I actually do lectures on public relations how to assess what I mean at a very basic level you want to communicate with press how do you do it but before you do it why do you want to do it . |
| 14 | There was nothing for it but that she visit the company directors in person and see if she could persuade them of her determination to rebuild the business . |
| 15 | An exhibitor 's put an exhibit up and everyone thinks they can beat it but when they 've gone and left their the exhibitors gone back and put a new lot up … things like that happen . |
| 16 | I 'd read all about it but when you 've actually got it , it 's horrible . |
| 17 | It 's a desperate way to look at it but when you go out there 's 16 soldiers to every 2 policemen and you work out the odds , and that 's 8 to 1 against you being hit . |
| 18 | I mean we have to work very hard in our own er relationship we 've had our ups and downs we 've gone through many difficult times like unemployment and even homelessness and you know we we 've gone through it but when you make your promises you say you 'll stay together for richer for poorer in sickness and in health and so on . |
| 19 | He ca n't see any harm in it but when I 've found him watching blue movies , I 've felt suicidal . |
| 20 | I began ‘ Great Expectations ’ with a very negative view towards it but as I read on I began to really enjoy it . |
| 21 | if they look as though they need it they need it but if they do n't look as though they need watering do n't water them . |
| 22 | It 's a last resort but then again we might not need it but if we do |
| 23 | I said to Bev erm do n't mean to say , I mean I might get home and find she 's got a phone call but she said to me yes I mean we , she did think of going out yesterday , and it was me that stopped it but if I feel so inclined today we 'll go down if she 's in |
| 24 | Okay it 's easy if you know how to do it , it is obvious when you know how to do it but if you do n't know how to do it it 's not that easy and it 's definitely not obvious . |
| 25 | We think it might be voles , we think it could be squirrels , we do n't seriously think it 's anything bigger but I 'm afraid we do n't think there 's anything you can do about it but if you want further investigation then if you send these objects to Fred care of the programme , he will give you a personal diagnosis . |
| 26 | Yeah that would cut it down would n't it ? on their own you can say they 'd be able to afford it but if you consider the outgoings as well eighty pound a |
| 27 | Andy has got a job to do and so have I. But if I lose he will be gutted for me at the end and if I lose I will be gutted for him . ’ |
| 28 | There 's no doubt it 's going to be difficult for us but if we play for 90 minutes the same way we did against Cork in the first half last week , we 'll return with something from the game . ’ |
| 29 | Because that 's the thing like , although if she did something a bit more traditional , it 'd probably please the likes of us but when you think , the kids that are doing it , if she says oh we 're doing something out of Starlight Express it 'll be aah ! |