Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb base] they " in BNC.

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1 I have not discussed the essays by d " Auzac , Asher , Frowe , McGonigal , Seitz and Gibson , but I recommend them to the reader 's attention .
2 These pieces speak to me of boundless beauty and passion and I rejoice in my tears but I use them too , intuitively , when I feel depressed or despairing , to release tears .
3 These four categories admittedly overlap in theory and in practice , but I use them since they correspond to real differences of approach in the study of literary language , and help to show in what way stylistic and linguistic studies differ .
4 But I tell them nothing .
5 But I hope they will allow independent investigators access to the inquiry . ’
6 Lawrence added : ‘ I know it has been an expensive season for fans , but I hope they will dig deep to back the team in their final home game . ’
7 Although , I sa , but I hope they 've got the right day !
8 ‘ Do n't get me wrong — I 'm very fond of them both , but I prefer them one at a time . ’
9 I use them , but I keep them separated from the majority of plants by surrounding them with strips of glass siliconed to the tank base .
10 Derbyshire folk may query the authenticity of this but I defy them not to enjoy the results .
11 Plenty of minnows , but I throw them back in .
12 Ministers pride themselves on their attention to detail , but I ask them to lift their eyes and survey a broader picture .
13 The boys were younger than me but I remember them coming to school — and what a job that was for them .
14 But I remember them well , ’ the landlord continued hastily .
15 But I respect them .
16 We 've got two officer 's for example who are leading on working the young people in the town , Youth Development Officer 's er we , the Local Government Unit has a policy team initiated work on the youth policy , and this arose out of erm a member seminar 's , September eighty nine , where er the members felt that really the Council was n't doing enough for young people , that we as a Council , not not to think about young in the way we deliver our services and it was felt that we needed to go out and talked to young people , which we did in the winter of that year , erm and find out what they wanted from us , and the res as a result of that , that , that policy , and that consultation exercise has now developed into a front line service where we have two people full time working with young people in the town and that 's on various things , graffiti project , the underpasses in the town we , which have got graffiti type I mean I know there not everybody 's cup of tea , but I mean they way .
17 But I mean they are there to provide advice and we do get an awful lot of case work .
18 But I mean they spring up every summer .
19 But I mean they actually do work , er ten percent gross yield and erm if you asked me to explain how they get the ten percent , I 'd have to use some notes they gave to me cos it 's , cos it 's complicated , but they use derivatives , and they buy in er in the shares and options market , and erm the company I 'm thinking of actually own the shares , but you take options on them , and they take commission on the options , they also take dividends , er and by the time you 've read the , the , the spiel , it sounds a bit like you 've fitted all these petrol savers to your car and you 're driving to Nottingham , and the tank overflows , it 's that sort of
20 Not that I do it , I mean if I tried to read all that stuff , I 'd never leave home but I mean they actually give a a an advice list which we can then comply with .
21 I it , it was , it was alright f for people wh who were used to that sort of thing but I mean they had n't all the mechanization in the mines then that they have now .
22 well we say that but I mean they 're not really Derbies .
23 I do n't want to be picky about this but but I mean they are government based .
24 Erm I mean we we have some left but I mean they 're mainly empty which does n't matter a lot I mean I 'll them for next year .
25 You know , the number and I mean has n't been able to get round to buying space in the T T G and Travel Weekly until the first two weeks in February cos we were so late in informing him I must had this conversation has taken away the brochure so there 's not a copy here but we 'll try and get hold of some as soon as possible but I mean they 're mainly for Glasgow but had been been up there from R and D y'know and she said that the people up there did n't seem to know the slightest thing about interline how to deal with interline tickets and agency tickets and all that sort of business .
26 Yeah , but I mean they do n't
27 No , but I mean they do it the easy way the
28 Er I do n't think are pulling out but they , they 've suspended things , but I mean they just do n't know if they 're competing .
29 But I mean they were banging they were banging fifteen hundred in for that disco for the first
30 That 's right yeah but I mean they 've got some really , sort of you know , like those things , what have you said tonight that you like , those that jar of stuff , was it something in rum pineapple ?
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