Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | New England in the Fall is quite as beautiful as everyone says but the weather is fickle — we arrived in a sunny 82°F and left in a foggy 36°F . |
| 2 | passed through , because they did n't stop at Needham and er but I always thought , you see , there were , I do n't know several clerks in that office as I remember but I ca n't remember who they were anyway I did n't have , we did n't have much to do with them . |
| 3 | as far as I know but |
| 4 | mother and I hope father and I will be around to want to pick up what we can to help you 've got ta start thinking about standing on your own feet , you know , because admittedly I er I , I , I could turn out to be not as bad a financial state as I anticipated but I never was stinking rich and I 'm certainly not stinking rich now , so erm I mean |
| 5 | I managed somehow to contain the tears as I played but , at night , I was crying myself to sleep . " |
| 6 | No that 's right , as I say but erm anyway then after that when I left at say sixteen , you see , er er er a friend of ours who was a railway clerk at Needham Station came and told us that they were taking on girls on the Railway Company and would I like to do it and so of course I had to pass exams and er actually , can I read some notes that |
| 7 | Well I think that 's a good way of putting it , absolutely , I mean er As as I say but it it is erm I think it 's been a long process and to get I mean it 's taken nearly two years since the |
| 8 | They can expect me as er as I say but probably , for me , one of the more interesting papers on the whole agenda today . |
| 9 | Erm as I say but but that is on there . |
| 10 | so erm , as I say but |
| 11 | There were a few Commandos resting in the barn , they looked up as I entered but showed no recognition . |
| 12 | and she 's got arthritis , well in her knees , same as I have but not quite so bad because er , well up to now , but then again she 's younger than I am er several years younger than me and , but she 's getting on and so is Jack you see and er , and er so erm I 've had a , as I say , I 've had , I 've had a wonderful life really . |
| 13 | He did have a very hard time which we , as children , could not understand … they took care of Richard as you know but my mother also had to look after the children left in 2 Dan-y-bont , Pontrhydyfen , travelling there at least twice a week on two separate buses with Richard , a two-year-old , in tow . |
| 14 | No , well it is one of the sights as you know but erm I 'm sure you heard about it when you were there did n't you ? |
| 15 | You can reply as you wish but I shall translate in whatever way I think appropriate , Good luck . ’ |
| 16 | So you 've had a sharp increase in our shareholders ' funds during the six months and a reduction in our net debt which may not be quite as er substantial as you expected but it is the combination of on the one hand the proceeds of Elsivir less some reinvestment which Frank mentioned , we put a little more money in B S B and the minority interests and we do have traditionally in the first half an adverse net movement of funds from operation about ninety five million and then we had thirty two million odd er of simply revaluation as a result of translating our dollar debt at er the one sixty as opposed to the year ending rate . |
| 17 | You can take all in the line or as many as you like but you can not take from more than one line . |
| 18 | and really , I mean you know , you can talk about male , female bias as much as you like but there 's an awful of actresses , and not , you know , a lot fewer actors and a lot better parts for men . |
| 19 | You c You can er you can in fact have up to er you can find in you ex in your will as many people as you like but no more than four executors can prove at any one time . |
| 20 | You ca n't for real you ca n't really move blue ball you can move the red ball as much as you like but not What you have to do is to so just try a normally conventional just sling straight through here |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , because of Steve … not because I love him as you think but because I care about him and … caring is just as emotive as loving . |
| 22 | I think you can read all you want and talk to people as often as you want but , in my case , my understanding of Europe just simply did n't exist before I went there . |
| 23 | It 's alright for you to lie to us as many times as you want but when we 'd asked you once you get in a mood and walk off and do n't talk to us . |
| 24 | ‘ No good changing the subject , ’ her mother said slowly , ‘ do n't go doing anything daft , cariad , this man may be as innocent as you say but his kind use people like us , remember that . ‘ |
| 25 | Yeah yeah certainly , erm I think that 's er that 's good , well if , if you can , if you can access it er in some way informally or , or , you know , it 's probably un unlikely that you 'd get too much stuff in writing as you say but , you know , er it could be very er productive and interesting erm tt erm can that sort of thing , particularly if you can get it in terms of quotes from people , you can sort of , you know , make a project look quite nice because it looks like if you do all this , you know , sort of stuff with the attitude scales it , it 's er it gives you lots of nice numerical data but er |
| 26 | Vacant possession ca n't be er achieved er , er overnight , as you appreciate but if the Government 's agricultural er land tenancy , hey do n't keep interrupting . |
| 27 | I did as she said but they were two sizes too big for me ; they fitted better after she had packed the toes with scraps of wool . |
| 28 | Her heart rate has soared as she dances but the alcohol in her blood is gradually falling . |
| 29 | She blushed as she spoke but Bridie and Julia noticed nothing . |
| 30 | He folded the paper away as we approached but he did n't stand up . |