Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] said [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that a little bit apprehensive on things like that , and course when he saw Tony asked whether ga , whether he could go and Tony said no , I 'm sorry Doc but that he said I 've got my ponies and things there and I do n't want people shooting there ! |
| 2 | But although she said it she could not be certain that it was true . |
| 3 | But although I said I was reasonably Spartan , this bare Nissen hut and my little windy bivouac pall a bit at times . |
| 4 | But if I said nothing , turned tail and ran from Gyggle , what hope was there for an ordinary life for Ian Wharton ? |
| 5 | ‘ It all depends on our fitness problems , but if I said it was unlikely Ferguson would get the call it could end up sounding like famous last words , ’ said Roxburgh . |
| 6 | They 're ha quite happy to do it once a month but like you said what they will not do erm obviously is to have a lot of sort of things like standing orders and that sort of thing . |
| 7 | And I want it like yours but like you said I 'd have to buy erm Artex and get Chris to do it . |
| 8 | But when I said I was doing it in Scotland , people just shivered . |
| 9 | But when you said what you did about the night we 'd spent together … ’ |
| 10 | and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea . |
| 11 | ‘ I realised that you definitely did n't want to merge and I would have accepted that , but when you said you hated me — ’ he paused ‘ — well , that hit me hard . |
| 12 | That 's what I thought it was at first but when he said it the next time it sounded different , it was nymph , rag nymph , that 's what he called me . |
| 13 | But when he said it , I thought oh I thought I had to have my left foot flat on the floor when I cornered , cos in second you have too . |
| 14 | But when she said we were going by Concorde , that , to an engineering student , was it . ’ |
| 15 | She showed the dresses to Philip , who laughed at them , but when she said she would get something for them , quite a lot , shrugged , unwillingly respectful . |
| 16 | But as they said it I felt something being pulled round my neck . |
| 17 | We got so close , but as someone said it 's better to have tried than not . ’ |
| 18 | But as I said they need have no fear . |
| 19 | I know but as I said they have you by the short and curlies . |
| 20 | Er n back to these snaps that erm John takes but as I said they 're pictures of the rooms before he alters them , before he puts in a new decor , th the upholstery , furnishings and the erm |
| 21 | you know it 's not , not , it 's not like Benidorm or anything like that it 's it 's somewhere like , it 's about seven miles away from the sea , but as I said they |
| 22 | It is detailed alright but as I said what they 've written is detailed enough but they 've missed out erm various things that we needed to know |
| 23 | But er it certainly did a lot for the bakers but as I said it certainly took away the happy family union that we had before . |
| 24 | We have n't been trying hard to persuade the Garrimperos to adopt different technologies , more modern technologies that would avoid the contamination of the mercury , but as I said I believe the only way of reaching this goal is if we can organize the Garrimperos to have er a kind of er institutionalized way of exploiting gold , not the sort of gold rush i that is being on and on On and off in Brazil for two centuries right now . |
| 25 | The general manager of LUFC is called Alan Roberts , but as I said I only heard half the story . |
| 26 | I heard his name mentioned once … but as I said there was no coverage really . |
| 27 | but as she said you if you make twenty arrangements and you sell half of them you just about break even with the flowers you 've bought to do them . |
| 28 | But as she said she she just had to she could n't stay in bed when she had kids running all over the place . |