Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] 've [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say that the food is very rich , but luckily they 've got plenty of room in their dresses ! |
| 2 | It 's almost mesmeric as well is n't it , this repetition of now , now , now between between the but as as you were saying , it 's sketching all the details in so you , if you were sketching a fox , you know you begin somewhere and say you begin with the nose you 've just got a little detail the nose and the eyes but eventually you 've got to put the whole sketch in . |
| 3 | some woman that have but perhaps they 've required so much more knowledge in the |
| 4 | But perhaps you 've got a long drive ahead , ’ he said , not so much hesitantly as enquiringly . |
| 5 | But morally I 've grown up downwards . |
| 6 | Er , so that 's okay to an extent , but obviously we 've got an approved list of building societies and banks , which we never used to have , but we 've realized that er since B C C I p particularly and the housing market as bad as it is , there are some building societies and banks who may be in difficulties , and if they go down erm then they may not be taken over . |
| 7 | But obviously we 've got to be very careful about looking at actual work carried out , bearing in mind that is |
| 8 | They 've a long way to go if one of these youngsters are to compete at Sydney in the year 2 000 … but already they 've claimed a notable scalp . |
| 9 | We 're only two years away from it but already we 've realised just how dull it was . |
| 10 | But anyway we 've grasped the point that the general elections it 's really down to the prime minister to er er to ask for the dissolution of parliament and the prime minister will normally a will normally ask for the dissolution of parliament when he or she thinks they 've got the best chance of winning . |
| 11 | But anyway we 've got a tight we 've got a tight time scale . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know about the rest but anyway I 've got to pass the word around . ’ |
| 13 | But nevertheless we 've tackled that and come to deal with it . |
| 14 | The 29-year-old British number one will have butterflies in his stomach when he goes on court but says : ‘ You never play well unless you are a bit nervous but generally I 've reacted well to the Davis Cup and I enjoy it . |
| 15 | Oh God I 've never smelt , I did n't wan na say anything but like I 've smelt anything so nasty in my life except for Patrick 's knob . |
| 16 | Oh we try and use ours as little as possible but still we 've had high bills . |
| 17 | but still I 've got a hundred pound in there , you have seventy one , seventy two pound worth , plenty stuff |
| 18 | They they 've looked at erm housing and er industrial development , er I was n't at the discussion yesterday , but clearly they 've put a significant effort into deciding what the appropriate level of new industrial development is . |
| 19 | But clearly we 've got the charter commitments and we need to make sure we fulfil those . |
| 20 | I mean the mixer 's just as bad but really we 've got on to them Brian did and they made a good job , they squared it up . |
| 21 | that are grumbling cos they 've come down , but really they 've come down to the same level as |
| 22 | but really I 've got to talk to somebody , I 've got to talk to somebody for their |
| 23 | It was awfully sporting of IBM Corp to set up consultancy , systems integration and facilities management ventures in an attempt to put to profitable use the surplus skills of so many of its employees , and only curmudgeons asked if IBMers were actually the right people for the job : sad to say , the curmudgeons were right , and according to Computerworld , the head of the new IBM Consulting Group in White Plains , New York , Robert Howe , says that it is having to hire people from the likes of Andersen Consulting and Coopers & Lybrand , because as he told the paper , ‘ we 've tried IBMers , but frankly we 've had to send some home — some IBM people did n't get the notion of the service business — they did n't understand that we did n't want administrators and middle managers ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Ten years ago they were Bulgarians , but now they 've become Macedonians ’ . |
| 25 | But , er , so hopefully Michelle will get this next Tracey 's position , and obviously sort of in in the meantime and providing her position comes up they are bringing in a Telesales County Secretary , which was n't gon na come in for about a year cos they wanted to sort of like , trial it , but now they 've decided if that 's what they want the position to do erm it 'll probably happen in the next two months and they said for me to go for it from our division , so I said right , okay . |
| 26 | But now they 've struck again . |
| 27 | Before you always felt that someone 's got this under control and they 're just going to the wire , but now they 've crossed the wire . ’ |
| 28 | In the late seventies , the authorities allowed many refugees to stay , but now they 've adopted a tougher policy . |
| 29 | He says it was for their funeral but now they 've got nothing . |
| 30 | But now they 've got got the additional worry of discovering that the applications they made to various universities and polytechnics back in October may never have been sent . |