Example sentences of "[noun sg] but you [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He , he , he was er more or less well off , still in , in Terrace but you know he was , they seemed to be well off and probably were . |
| 2 | You have n't got a fashionable figure but you carry yourself well . |
| 3 | you are very welcome to stay for lunch but you say you ca n't . |
| 4 | Sorry about the mess but you caught me on the hop like . |
| 5 | It 's worth also noting at this point that if you are a tenant and renting and you lose your job you are eligible for housing benefit , erm if you if you were er buying your house , although you do get some er er you get the interest I believe on your mortgage paid , there are lots of other things that do not get paid but the thing is that if you have a reduction in your income which might happen where one partner say lost a job , er you s you 're eligible for housing benefit but you get nothing as far as company paid mortgage is concerned . |
| 6 | ‘ Why ? ’ is a useful question when someone has made an error but you want them to diagnose it . |
| 7 | No what happens is you buy the beach hut but you rent them on , you rent the plot |
| 8 | ‘ His timing was impeccable , and he ended up the hero but you set your own standards and once they are high you have got to keep up with them . |
| 9 | Well thing is that I mean a lot of these jobs , I mean er yeah they recognize that , I mean a lot of them yo they think you 're as thick as shit and treat you like you 're as thick as shit just because you 're doing a thick as shit job but you know they ca n't necessarily give you more |
| 10 | Grandad , who had been reading his paper , said , ‘ Eh , I 'd like to help with the cleaning but you see I promised Angus up at the farm that I 'd help him with the lambs today . ’ |
| 11 | I know it does n't at the moment but you know what I mean . |
| 12 | So I said , ‘ Fine , I would n't infringe on his privacy but you asked me , and that 's who I 'd like to meet . ’ |
| 13 | You never come in this kitchen but you break something : when you help it spells disaster . |
| 14 | It it 's not his best side er his right foot but you know he can weigh in on that side but er he does have a hunger for goals . |
| 15 | ‘ When you know there 's a bird that matches it 's description but you know it 's extinct , it just does n't sink in . |
| 16 | You see we moan about paying three pound a pound for meat but you pay it for fish . |
| 17 | Usually very very pessimistic and always look always look on the on the pessimistic side of things you know all that sort of stuff but you know they are a very important part of the group , you know given given their space to be like they are you know do n't take them too seriously remember their job is to criticise and their job is to pull things to pieces . |
| 18 | It 's only my Walkman but you see she nicked my Walkman and left this and th i er I 'm keeping clipped on here so I know where it is , cos if it 's in my bag I 'll lose it . |
| 19 | Overtime payments in special circumstances could bring those wages up to £40 a week but you had it was an amazing effort . |
| 20 | public liability insurance but you see we can |
| 21 | Not in the biblical sense but you know what I mean |
| 22 | If you apply the same consequences to both children — say , time-out — not only are you relieved of being judge and jury but you encourage them to avoid fights by cooperating or settling differences peacefully . |
| 23 | Where are you calling from we 're very loud with callers today I know I 'm not the most exciting thing on radio but you know there must be some callers out there somewhere ? |
| 24 | Now the the trains the twelve twenty eight Aberdeen is n't going to leave until twelve fifty four er let's have a look anything else er Liverpool twelve thirty eight Middlesborough Edge Hill er no leaves on the line but you know you do n't you never know the er er er I do n't understand that the thirteen eighteen what 's that ? |
| 25 | It was quite traumatic at the time to be sick or unwell in such a situation but you did your very best and succeeded in putting it all right . |
| 26 | It does n't drag on beyond bedtime but you feel you had your money 's worth . |
| 27 | Not too bad we we got well we had been together near enough since we left school but you know we decided to have a go at it seriously in in seventy five and then we recorded an album and a single in say seventy seven , seventy eight . |
| 28 | Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year . |
| 29 | Well , you know , Donald came up here year after year and took a real tongue lashing and you did n't really put anything down there that could be criticized this year but you said we 're gon na fight . |
| 30 | They all end up the same way but you do it by different ways . |