Example sentences of "but [unc] it [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 Well they , they seemed to be putting some finance in , but er it went through a bit of a flat spot and then the sold out I , I 'm sorry I 'm stuttering and all this but I have n't done my research you know and it , it 's , it 's tough going .
2 so that was a shame , but er it got better slowly you know
3 Of course , I realize today , the place I hid them in everybody must have known where they were cos I was small and having to reach , and the large ones must have seen they were there anyway , but er it did n't dawn on me then .
4 Oh yes , you worked overtime , for which there was no pay , I mean , it did n't count er You see things , you know , there was less structure about it , then , erm and you could have ti if you wanted time off for something , you 'd probably have got it fairly easily , but er it did n't seem to be the great arguments that you 've had since .
5 It did n't do him a lot of good in the early er in the early days , but er it did stand him in good stead later of course because he became er er a full-time official o of the er Notts area N U M.
6 But er it did not do bad , got a fair good picture with it .
7 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
8 Right now well all I , I ex I knew that you were having meetings about it so really all , all I need you to do is actually get this validated by your group and if there were any change significant changes you wanted to make then to come back to me and David with that those suggestions but erm it struck me that th the thing hangs together quite well .
9 My er my sister worked in the grenade shop and erm after she ca she 'd been working at , on the manor , do you know the manor at Willenhall and then er she decided to go on with the war work and she was courting the man named , John and his father was the timekeeper , later H & T Hornes , but erm it fizzled out and anyway the romance did but erm
10 but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the
11 But erm it landed on deaf ears .
12 Oh yes they did for , for the increase in traffic I mean that er that er went on over the years gradually creep , creep , creep on until the whole atmosphere of the place was er I do n't know improved should you say or not I do n't know whether it 's er well it certainly has n't improved but erm it changed , it was such a lovely little place really , and of course you could run across the road whenever you liked I mean we used to play in Street of picking out in a sweet shop window er a name be Cadbury 's or chocolate or something you 'd be standing across the road and you 'd be running backwards and forwards backwards and forwards , there was no sign of anyone getting run over cos there was nothing about , and when I was a kid going to the Bluecoat School I 'd run across that bridge every morning without looking right or left , because if anything had hit me , well nothing used to be coming you could see a tram coming but oh there was nothing else at that time in the morning oh no it was , would n't like to run across today .
13 I would like to think that if Freud were alive today , he would have said the same thing , of course when Freud wrote this book in nineteen twenty one er there was no such thing as group psychotherapy it had n't been invented yet , it was to become very much after World War Two but partly existed before and perhaps it 's past its peak now , but erm it did become very much a after World War Two and the point I made was and this is really wh wh what Heather ha h has just said , that if you take Freud 's book on , on group seriously , how can you do group psychoanalysis ?
14 but erm it did n't look a very attractive proposition at the time
15 But i it grew slowly over the weeks and I think Christmas was an example of just the actual logistics of what we did at Christmas must be something of a feat in that so much stuff came in from the volume of presents and then the way in which they could be distributed .
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