Example sentences of "it [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah mhm yeah I mean you may want to select some stuff that 's y'know that represents different kinds of things because as I remember our conversations earlier , you were interested in er y'know sort of ideological soundness , political correctness and y'know were some things funny but sort of off-colour for other reasons erm er I 'm paraphrasing it badly but er y'know I think that th s so you might want to get some stuff that 's sort of ideologically sound and humorous and er some stuff that 's a bit off-colour and humorous and some stuff that 's erm sort of I do n't know some stuff that 's main stream but has got a lot of y'know if you look at something like say The Two Ronnies or something , there 's a lot of there 's a lot of racism and sexism in there but it 's because it 's sort of main stream because it 's family viewing and stuff like that people tend not to think of it as problematic . |
| 2 | I know that Geraldine was going through a phase of socialism , and inverted snobbery , almost , to put it unkindly but accurately . |
| 3 | After a plain breakfast they went out again , still taking it slowly but this time with more of a distance in mind . |
| 4 | I think they 'll do it slowly but not this slowly . |
| 5 | When the Soviet plan reached Mr Bush , he welcomed it politely but with undisguised dismay . |
| 6 | Her hair felt rough and unpleasant to the touch because she was no longer washing it properly but improvising with a kettle of hot water in the kitchen sink . |
| 7 | Well no , that was another thing more or less as I was coming out the door they 'd got the news thing on and this was Australia the new prime minister , I do n't know his name , he 's running down I did n't hear it properly but I heard the gist of it , erm and it |
| 8 | Can hear it somewhere but , still it do n't make a difference does it ? |
| 9 | I 've got it somewhere but |
| 10 | Because you get that silence in the room and mmm you want to fill it so but you 're right the use of the pause effective and particularly with a variation in pitch that gives that emphasis the two combined together can be very very effective . |
| 11 | it 's that or a new head torch , but if I got a new head torch it , it perhaps but they 're about , they 're about thirty quid I think |
| 12 | At Bridgend he looked in despair , and he almost admitted as much : ‘ I hope we can pull it together but sometimes I have my doubts . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm not saying we all had it together but you say you can er say that about four of 'em would then as that as that they got rid of it the other the others 'd get it you know eventually and th we 'd all have it in the end . |
| 14 | Well you could perhaps do it together but be careful . |
| 15 | ‘ We can not do it alone but we must be prepared to do our part . ’ |
| 16 | One reacted in this way not because one had thought about it much but because some instinct demanded it . |
| 17 | Why not have the light within you so you do n't have to go and get it outside but it 's there dwelling within you , day by day , moment by moment ? |
| 18 | I have people working on it already but it 's a world-wide organization and the structure is complex . |
| 19 | We had delivered it but they had n't taken it from the gate house to you know , normal procedure but they , we delivered it normally but they had n't taken it to the exact part of the hospital it was going to . |
| 20 | I have n't done it easily but I 've done it and I 'm pleased . |
| 21 | Whatever the quality of recruitment of barristers and solicitors , is my right hon. and learned Friend aware of the deep weakness in the British legal system in that justice is readily available to the poor who can get legal aid and to the rich who can easily afford it anyway but that to a large proportion of people in between it often seems barely accessible and yet they have to pay taxes to provide justice for others ? |
| 22 | to be delivered in one statement show you what the chances are you 'll be doing it anyway but not erm what you are actually doing purpose you 'll always be followed by a tentative benefit always be followed by cheque standing or in this case tell me how does that . |
| 23 | I mean those , by and large , those who who need to listen to what I 'm saying to and take it on board wo n't and those who already do do n't need it anyway but they 'll take it on board . |
| 24 | I mean they know you do it anyway but |
| 25 | He pushed it away but the more he pushed the more it stuck to him . |
| 26 | He did not feel he ought to throw it away but it must be kept from her sight . |
| 27 | They 're now even on to the vile Trade Union Reform Bill , they 're accepting it admittedly but but they 're accepting it , but it 's in the wrong Bill it 's in the wrong place it should be up in the front . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , he wanted it tonight but I managed to convince him I could n't possibly get that much money together before tomorrow night . ’ |
| 29 | It stalls , I stalled it tonight but well I just caught it . |
| 30 | Ah just a couple of people that 's all two people and er they 'll just have to get round it somehow but we do n't yeah well you speak to him right yeah well they can have they can have what they want but I mean it might be just a short term thing . |