Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she decided to be awkward , like she always is , and said I says oh it 's still taping you know and I s she said summat , I ca n't remember what it were now but I was saying , I knew that 'd happen , one minute yes then no , then I 'll think about it , I says and if I did n't start it when you went out you 'd be saying you could 've done this and that and er so she were chittering , pretending she said I could n't do it . |
| 2 | Oh he said oh I 'd like to give it all a good he wants to clean it there 's always something on the floor , it 's like a erm lino , it 's probably but all bigger squared |
| 3 | Most times it 's both but it 's mainly the the left hand side with Jenny . |
| 4 | I know it 's really but I do n't know whether they have a Casino there . |
| 5 | It 's quite but what I 'm I mean where would you put your fridge ? |
| 6 | But what we ca n't , it 's absolutely but if you write it in all the other divisions have got to do it as well . |
| 7 | I ca n't , I ca n't remember precisely even so I think it , it , it 's Walsall 's loss that they have n't got an airport any more , it , it 's purely but erm they , they did have a lot of s divided up into a lot of sports fields at one time did n't they but the people who 've , is it the M E B who control those buildings now ? |
| 8 | You do n't know that it 's there but I do . |
| 9 | he would n't have to see it , he could just know it 's there but then why does he say , I imagine it |
| 10 | And I 've seen chairs like that , I 've seen I do n't know whether it 's there but a couple of places , bedroom chairs , gorgeous things , you know ! |
| 11 | There 's a nice little car up here , that Chevrolet thing I do n't know who 's selling it like , du n no how much it is even but it 's a nice little car . |
| 12 | I do n't know how long it 's going to go on for , or what it is exactly but I thought it would be a good idea to ring your dad up and see . |
| 13 | Nobody knows what it is yet but it 's hot . |
| 14 | Well I suppose it is basically but no flute that 's what we were looking for . |
| 15 | You do n't erm the other day I thought to myself I 'll walk up , see if that shop 's still there and by the time , you know er I was dreaming obviously , and I 'd walked by , I 'd got time actually , I was killing time so er I thought oh you silly I said er you 've still not er found out , so I went back and it is there but it 's not some , it 's not a shop |
| 16 | This is what Moser calls ‘ quasi-random ’ sampling in that it is almost but not quite random . |
| 17 | and er he said to himself there 's something I , I , I do n't know what it is necessarily but there is something , go to a specialist and the specialist was very very good you know blah blah blah blah you want some te I want some tests , you know , so I had some tests , you know and the crew that were doing the tests they knew what they were looking for and they either found it or they did n't , do n't know . |
| 18 | Well , it , it , it looked very similar , not quite as good as it is now but er , it was n't no where near as wide of course . |
| 19 | I do n't know whee it is now but it was there . |
| 20 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 21 | Mm but I , I mean I can use it as it is now but anything else on to it I would find it difficult . |
| 22 | I know what it is now but |
| 23 | And it was just But I do n't er I do n't seem as though er it was er sometimes I saw I saw a spot of blood , but it |
| 24 | Too great a reliance on self-financing would , however , require prices which were well above long-run costs ( or as it was differently but conventionally expressed in the contemporary discussion by officials , would burden present-day consumers with an unfair proportion of the costs of supplying electricity in the future ) . |
| 25 | It was near but how near was difficult to tell . |
| 26 | It was late but the platforms were crowded . |
| 27 | I I told you when it was yesterday but you did n't remember ! |
| 28 | ‘ It was offside but this has happened because we 're Wimbledon . |
| 29 | That was your annual affair and the er the er the chapel itself was at the end of it used to put up a tiered platform if you can imagine it you know at the end of the little chapel and the erm the younger children was on the bottom and as you got older you graduated to the top and er I do n't know why it was though but er I always had to say the collection piece . |
| 30 | It was then but a short — though for many an agonising — step to provide special courses for those coming out of special schools and the remedial classes of comprehensives . |