Example sentences of "[vb infin] but [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously eventually if people keep on leaking blood their pressure will fall but you could have a situation where there 's not a single drop of blood yet lost to the system and yet the person 's in shock because the blood 's not being circulated properly off the heart , not a drop of blood lost to the system , but insufficient pressure , so shock can be caused by either of those two things , failure of the circulatory system because the pressure of the volume drops dangerously low , okay , you did a lot of work on what the person looks like , yes you as the casu you as the first aider will see this person in front of you , what will they be like ? |
| 2 | As he drew near they heard the sickening crack of the rod striking flesh ; once , twice they heard it fall but it brought no anguished shout of pain in response . |
| 3 | I thought I would , I thought I would fall but I I just walked back to my chair and I was fine . |
| 4 | The political feasibility of dangling before Indians a prize at which they might gaze but which they would never grasp was assured , Irwin told Salisbury , by the fact that Indians in their heart of hearts knew they would always need British administrators to guide them . |
| 5 | We ca n't win but we must keep trying . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't think we should win but everyone would think we were nicer people . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't know but everything 's environment environmentally friendly in that place now . |
| 8 | We do n't know but somebody had a look at it , Shirley , the teacher . |
| 9 | Probably were n't I do n't know but they seemed to us I may be looking at it from a child 's eyes but er that 's how they seemed to be to me . |
| 10 | Well I , he lived at Stowmarket for years but then I heard not so long ago that they had moved to Ipswich but where I do n't know but they must be , whether he 's than I have now I do n't know either . |
| 11 | When they had sort it out they just did n't know but they would go you know prancing around saying to one another saying then . |
| 12 | Then of course , then when they the kids went up , did n't know where they were going , and the parents did n't know but they found new found freedom because all the bloody kids had gone to the countryside |
| 13 | wh I remember that when I was at home it was a mixed sort of meeting in which some of the people from the village were coming who you did n't really know but they had to be asked |
| 14 | I do n't know but they must of done it sometime . |
| 15 | I do n't know but they used to go |
| 16 | He veered higher over another kind of wood whose trees he did not know but which had lighter bark and were higher . |
| 17 | We do n't actually know but we are |
| 18 | Right so maybe this is an intermediate stage , we do n't know but we know carbon dioxide comes out of it . |
| 19 | Whether it was give it a better flavour or no , I do n't know but we never used the saltpetre . |
| 20 | ‘ Does everybody know but me ? ’ |
| 21 | I give myself two pats on the back for every answer which started with ‘ I do n't know but what if … ’ because these answers show that I regard the investigation as a shared experience . |
| 22 | Perhaps the honourable member should do a competitiveness survey and go somewhere else for his queue , I do n't know but what I can tell the honourable gentleman is that even though there were losses in the banking industry for the last year there have been strongly offsetting rises in insurance and business services . |
| 23 | She did n't know but what she did know was that Fernando would n't do anything to hurt anyone … only herself , as he had threatened when she had first arrived here at the lovely Casa Pinar . |
| 24 | There is no shame in saying , ‘ I do n't know but I 'll try to find out ’ , provided that you do ‘ try and find out ’ and report back . |
| 25 | How the poor fellow finally got his report together I do not know but I doubt that even he did n't realise that he was dealing with a supernatural force that did what it liked when it liked . |
| 26 | Do n't know but I can remember what happens with the alkali and the acid , you get calcium chloride , er it 's the same . |
| 27 | Er I do n't know but I would i I would reckon the crime rate since we 've been on the flats , even though the the flats are emptying out , h h has dropped er dramatically . |
| 28 | How this applies to the crew as well I do n't know but I expect Vic 's got some theory to cover it . |
| 29 | I do n't know but I 'm getting pretty fed up with this . |
| 30 | Oh I shall never regret Er I do n't know but I 'm just perhaps one on me own , but er it could n't have been better for because I was a freelance and er I wanted to learn and wanted to get on and they allowed me , they allowed me to do what I wanted . |