Example sentences of "[det] but i [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Was it you probably wo n't believe this but I 've never seen a programme of Spitting Image . |
2 | I hate to say this but I do rather think from the bruising that someone did it to him . ’ |
3 | They wo n't like this but I do n't think they will make a violent reaction , ’ he said . |
4 | Whereas if you think well you know this is , I 'm doing this but I do n't know whether this is me and I do n't feel very comfortable with it and all that |
5 | Mr Deputy Speaker I I would n't be in order to go into this but I do n't agree at all , as the honourable gentleman 's well aware , that filthy protectionism of the C A P forces up prices of food for the average family in Britain by twenty eight pounds a week . |
6 | Well they , they seemed to be putting some finance in , but er it went through a bit of a flat spot and then the sold out I , I 'm sorry I 'm stuttering and all this but I have n't done my research you know and it , it 's , it 's tough going . |
7 | Picasso 's Guernica is ‘ OK for some but I do n't like it ’ , as a young boy put it . |
8 | I know I 've got some but I do n't know where . |
9 | I mean you wo n't want much but I mean just to hold it . |
10 | er perhaps Tom himself was erm not really concentrating very much but I know when we came back after the Christmas Day , the Boxing Day that is , erm , Tom was quite oblivious as to what had gone on on the Chr on the Christmas Eve , so I remember we c we put our heads together and erm came to erm some arrangement as to who should be invited for this next tractor course and nothing was ever said so I expect the right people went after all but erm it 's funny how when he was |
11 | well I like watching some of these but I do n't know |
12 | I can not prove that but I do not think that the tests which have been carried out by the County Council refute that possibility . |
13 | ‘ You can be certain they hope for that but I do n't believe for a moment they expect it . |
14 | Yeah I would agree with that but I do n't think there is er any excuse for a woman to or a man for that matter to say women deserve rape says M P's wife . |
15 | Erm , I probably do all that but I do n't . |
16 | I 've heard so many of you say ‘ Oh yes , I 'd like to knit that but I have n't time to punch the card or mark the mylar sheet ’ . |
17 | Well yeah , er okay I can accept that but I think mentally |
18 | yeah but he 's got to the stage now as if yeah he 's not gon na do a lot , whatever he did before at home I 'm not sure but er he 's done all his windows and stuff like that but I think then again he can do a lot at work you see . |
19 | ‘ I never used to read poetry at all but I 've just found out that it says all the things I 've often felt but never been able to express . |
20 | I do n't think it is at all but I 've never seen it . |
21 | But erm certainly erm I , I think that was erm a , a very good response to this because erm obviously we 've got er a g a fair selection here , you 've got erm building society instant and top ten postal , that 's the postal account there , erm TESSA , P E P and unit trusts , and possibly index-linked certificates , and I 'll go back to those but I mean certainly that was a good er a good spread , and I think er you know you should be er thinking , well you know this lady 's going to have some safe growth in the in the future . |
22 | Before Rachel was born I bought about six stretchsuits , and I 've just been given 12 more but I have n't had to spend much on her clothes yet because I 've had so many presents . |