Example sentences of "[indef pn] but [pron] be not " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that many killings are done for next to nothing but we are not dealing with street muggers or footloose louts , we are dealing with the middle-aged and the middle-class-people who know which side their bread is buttered and value their reputations almost more than their deeds and their share certificates . |
| 2 | I suspect Sir George Bailey at Seal Court may have something but he 's not willing to let anyone look . |
| 3 | ‘ I said , ‘ We all have those ’ and he said something but I am not sure what . |
| 4 | something but I 'm not a small person . |
| 5 | Well I hope you 've been able to pick up a bit of something but I 'm not very good at it myself cos old days and old times . |
| 6 | Say you 've written her a poem or something but she 's not to read it till she gets home . ’ |
| 7 | Yeah erm Alice at school , she give me one but hers were n't called them and I said they were called Imps |
| 8 | Yeah it 's big enough for one but it is n't it big enough for two , that 's the one we went to see . |
| 9 | I 've got one but it 's not here so I |
| 10 | Over the hols I learned a gossipy thing or two from my brother in law who deals with some Leeds United staff in the course of his work at a certain Leeds City Centre bank ( not saying which one but it 's not hard to guess ) . |
| 11 | There 's one but it 's not a , not a three pint . |
| 12 | For one thing the lamp , the light 's gone and Tony got me a new one but it was n't |
| 13 | The solution could have been an amicable one but it was not to be so . |
| 14 | There was David , erm from Stramness , Jimmy from Stramness , Duncan , a cement barge and there a fifth one but I 'm not right sure of that . |
| 15 | ‘ No , I know he 's got a navy blue one but he was n't wearing it on Friday night . ’ |
| 16 | she never slows down , she looks busy and everything but she 's not really , she just goes all the time and that 's |