Example sentences of "it [adv] but i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well no , that was another thing more or less as I was coming out the door they 'd got the news thing on and this was Australia the new prime minister , I do n't know his name , he 's running down I did n't hear it properly but I heard the gist of it , erm and it |
| 2 | I have n't done it easily but I 've done it and I 'm pleased . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , he wanted it tonight but I managed to convince him I could n't possibly get that much money together before tomorrow night . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I wo n't promise anything , ’ she said following him , ‘ I 've never tackled a job like it before but I might just be able to make a built-up boot for you . ’ |
| 5 | Erm we are renumbering some points in that one , erm we were trying to avoid it before but I ca n't seem any way of avoiding it here because these are major new things . |
| 6 | ha , ha , I bet you will , it wo n't take that long to unpick it though but I mean you 've got a , quite a selection there to choose have n't you ? |
| 7 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 8 | They 've got instruments for doing it now but I used to stick to my bit of stick . |
| 9 | But you I think I think w er well it 's no good saying it now but I do n't think you can ask one person under the heat of all that to count up separate |
| 10 | Although Peter my friend 's he , he did that but er it did n't come to much , they 'd 've saved it or something , one job , cos he was made redundant about three times and er one , one place he was at they 're supposed to have kept it and paying him it now but I do n't know how they came about that bu because actually they we played him a dirty trick , they persuaded him to leave his job and then about nine years or probably less than that later you know and he was out again , redundant and , you know , I think they felt a bit guilty but he only gets about five pounds a week from , off that one , which is |
| 11 | I think he is off of it now but I think he must be quite a leading light |
| 12 | I think he is off of it now but I think he must be quite a leading light |
| 13 | Yes it only wants stitching up , I said er really I could sit and do it now but I could n't be bothered . |
| 14 | It would n't take long to do it now but I ca n't be bothered |
| 15 | he ju I just ca n't think how he put it now but I said ooh it 's a start |
| 16 | I was gon na give it to Ian to take to college tonight , but he 's not in so I ca n't , so I 've got ta send it now but I ca n't address . |
| 17 | We did n't use it often but I know what you mean . |
| 18 | I 'm mean we 've discussed it often but I I would be grateful if we could |
| 19 | He punished me to do it today but I got up really early anyhow . |
| 20 | I did n't know it then but I was receiving subliminal training for later business life . |
| 21 | I looked for it everywhere but I could not find it . |
| 22 | I can not do it yet but I am trying to come round to it . |
| 23 | So that 's the charter mark , we 're going for it again but I do n't think the impact will be , you know the main impact was , was last time . |
| 24 | I mean I know we 're we 're bodging it again but I mean |
| 25 | I got quite good ones actually cos I got two children next to each other and a few years later I got them to do it again but I do n't know if I can find them all . |
| 26 | ‘ Council 's turned a blind eye to it previously but I 'm in charge now and I 'm booking you under the Fireworks and Public Entertainments byelaw . ’ |
| 27 | See John when he we as soon as John arrived he said to me will you take me he said , I do n't wan na learn it proficiently but I want to know every job so I then took |