Example sentences of "what [pers pn] be but [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said if you said to me , Geoff , I want all the overtime I can get I can get the overtime I 'll go round and I 'll try and or if you say to me well I do n't want the overtime , I 'm quite happy with a flat week then I 'll know what I am but I said you change from day to day , one day you wann it , another day you do n't ! |
| 2 | I du n no , they get in on a Friday night he said by the time we 've cashed up , when I got there they 'd got this round coffee table in the middle of the room similar to that brass one what I 'm but it 's an old tin thing it is sitting in the middle of the room there was a little bag of money there a little bag of money there and a bag of money there that 's Geoff 's money that 's petrol money that 's five hundred pound . |
| 3 | He had severely limited the scope of his autobiography : ‘ I depict not what I was but what I see when I look back ’ , he told Eleanor Farjeon . |
| 4 | The one who brings the money , well — ’ Mordecai hesitated — ‘ I do not know what he is but he is not a servant . ’ |
| 5 | I du n no what it is but they 're about that long and about that round and then they got this trigger like you similar what you do on the Vax hold the trigger . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's too dark now to see exactly what it is but it looks rather sweet . ’ |
| 7 | And er it 's summat sugar , I do n't know what it is but it 's electrician 's job and he asked me to post that , when did I post that ? |
| 8 | That 's our penny , yeah there 's two R I du n no what it is but it 's full |
| 9 | And I do n't know what it was but they all seemed to say the same , the visitors , they all used to say , you 've got lovely fruit here . |
| 10 | I do n't know exactly what it was but he started really working hard at school . |
| 11 | I ca n't remember exactly what it was but there was I 've got a very strong memory of |
| 12 | And I will , I ca n't remember what it was but I do n't think I 'll get it again . |
| 13 | Brilliant okay now here I started off with something I do n't know what it was but I know that when I differentiated it I finished up with X |
| 14 | I could n't see what it was but it made a funny crackling noise . ’ |
| 15 | He did not say what it was but it may be that we found it in the safe this morning . |
| 16 | Something to do with som something to do with a cotton mill in Paisley and it was s s s W I c just can nae recall what it was but it was a great big trial , there was a And er this this lawyer he had done quite well out of this case but it was a quite That must have been in er about nineteen twenty nineteen thirties about nineteen thirty two . |
| 17 | Well I felt , I just did n't know what it was but it lacked the sort of charm that it had before . |