Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | A later article will argue that this lowering of costs does not eliminate them altogether but rather transfers them . |
| 2 | The examples in this section are Janus-like , in that the reader may interpret them metaphorically but , in the light of the examples in the previous section , it seems to me that we should interpret them as cases of underlexicalisation . |
| 3 | We did have them somewhere but I I just do n't know |
| 4 | The article on Flettner 's rotors ( ’ Critics in a spin over Flettner 's ships ’ , 10 March , p 6561 interested me greatly but I feel that another , better form of wind propulsion for ships is either unknown or is being ignored . |
| 5 | Well personally I mean erm Margaret impressed me greatly but I think John was inclined to be full of his own importance for one thing . |
| 6 | ‘ It does n't worry me morally but I have a lot of sympathy with those who do n't think it is very attractive . |
| 7 | Theyspoketo them nicely but if I asked them for anything it was as though they could n't be bothered . |
| 8 | Not me personally but I have known a few people who 've wanted perhaps , a very quiet wedding , just in a registry office , and finished up with a large church wedding . |
| 9 | ‘ I received a lot of abuse when I left Brookside , not ME personally but in a way just as bad . |
| 10 | It was the way he was erm as well out of his way to impress them so but they just , well you might help |
| 11 | That is to say , he could think through those ideas and feelings and in theory he could say them aloud but his shyness and his social position and the conventions about men expressing their feelings would have prevented him . |
| 12 | and you 'd fit them together but if it did n't fit you 'd have to do something to you 'd have to get them from som , from somewhere else . |
| 13 | Given that you can draw all sorts of amazing objects you might not think that you need to edit them much but IntelliDraw has some powerful editing tools . |
| 14 | I do n't , I mean we do n't have them much but do we really ? |
| 15 | Honestly , I only but it for the sports features |
| 16 | Now I usually but the small number first , does n't matter . |
| 17 | that I really but I mean last year still not finished ! |
| 18 | Well I can understand it being hard but I equally but you |
| 19 | ‘ But the 1861 to 1865 papers are kept under lock and key , ’ warned the owner , inferring that those that I freely but reverently leafed through might have to have similar protection one day . |
| 20 | Neighbour Muriel Harding-Newman , 79 , said : ‘ We could see the cows were stamping and kicking and that someone was trying to push them away but they would n't move . |
| 21 | We 've got in the new format sixty of the new new format but what we have been able to do is take elements of the new re-fitted stores and put those for instance erm Pronto we 've managed to take those and re-fit them separately but the actual new concept stores sits at about sixty-odd stores and currently what we 're doing is to check the that we have had a a re-fits this year erm where we 've taken space for other sub-lets where put the new concept back to but as far as the go in majority of the chain now we have most of the major elements i.e an upholstery area bed area Pronto representation and indeed the re-fit that was discussed in the Chairman 's statement the kitchen and bedroom re-fit erm was applicable to all stores so all of the stores have got new kitchens and bedrooms in |
| 22 | I have six survivors from the yacht Delos aboard and had thought to put three of the innocent parties among them ashore but that seems a little pointless now . ’ |
| 23 | And I recommend to anybody who goes on the school , I 'm sure they do on the training course , that the first opportunity I would have to address erm the con er the staff meeting , you just say this is what I who I am this is why I 'm here I 've got a list of businesses which the school has provided with me already but I I will I may erm if I bump into you in the corridor I may just say do you know anybody else . |
| 24 | She ran out and tried to send me away but I pretended Sabine was expecting me , so she took me to the studio . |
| 25 | His instinct was to pile the children into the car and drive them home but that , he knew , was hardly sensible . |
| 26 | I thought he 'd send me home but he did n't . |
| 27 | Her temper sprang back into vivid life as she all but shrieked the words back at him , her fingers unconsciously curling themselves into the fists she 'd dearly love to use on him . |
| 28 | Patrick held both hands up in a gesture of peace , he smiled for a moment ; I 'm no trying to get at you personally but I just fucking feel that you cant expect the teacher to be the everything , the heavyweight boxing champion of the world . |
| 29 | And it I mean it it does n't help saying I told you so but I did |
| 30 | Perhaps you 'd like to sit down rather than sort of hover at the back , it 's up to you entirely but you may feel that you 're slightly uncomfortable . |