Example sentences of "it but [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE government 's emergency food programme , according to a joke doing the rounds in Havana , is like God ; everyone talks about it but nobody can see it . |
| 2 | Oh yeah you you have to erase it but nobody 's gon na sa , I mean to say , nobody knows who you are , what you 've said anyway at all , do they ? |
| 3 | cos you 've got an opinion and you 're gon na stick to it but everyone is totally different , everyone 's got a totally different view on things . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm concerned that no one shall mar it but myself . |
| 5 | Occasion ally they were vaguely sad about it but they never considered adopting . |
| 6 | I could not go to it but they showed it on television . |
| 7 | ‘ My family did not see it but they heard the noise of the explosions . |
| 8 | I ca n't afford it but they say I 've got to pay it so they 'll take me to court . |
| 9 | They never did ring it but they meant to . |
| 10 | I 've asked 'em to sell me the land so I can develop it but they wo n't see sense . |
| 11 | She could have been stoned , people would have mocked her as she passed in the street , as they jeered and booed that girl Serafina when she started getting bigger and everyone knew who 'd done it but they could n't do anything about it , not even kill him , because he was the son of a nobleman -Rosalba shuddered , remembering the way Serafina had thrown up her chin and turned and screamed at her tormentors , ‘ And which one of you is so good that you can point at me ! ’ , then dropped her head and run away down the street , holding her heavy breasts as she ran . |
| 12 | DOWN may or may not have meant it but they have certainly succeeded in providing Derry with an extra incentive to triumph in next Sunday 's Ulster championship glamour tie . |
| 13 | You know young Neil Lewis coming in for a game like this is tremendous performance and Michael Whitlow and Colin Hill have been up against it but they 've worked hard and I think it 's been a great game and er one nil probably does n't er justify both sides . |
| 14 | And when they opened the Ark they should have discovered Moses in it but they did n't because it was and there we are . |
| 15 | Erm John 's Dream the National Playwright 's Network actually wrote back to me and said they 're quite happy to read your plays for a fee erm but I intend to re-write that before I put it in er for a reading erm Oh , I I sent a poem called Pleasure to Woman 's Weekly in June last year and I suspect they were actually planning to use it but they 've had a New Year 's clear-out and I got it back yesterday . |
| 16 | No definition is spot on really , you can always find difficulties with it but they do sort of discuss it in the first paragraph . |
| 17 | John Gorman says … they still believe in themselves and still think they can do it but they need to get a result … |
| 18 | We sorted out what we could pay , we did try to pay it but they still repossessed |
| 19 | This has ruined my sitting room and I have been onto the council about it but they have done nothing . ’ |
| 20 | Er and if if they would work they did n't want money for it but they would stay a while with you so that they would get their bed for the night and they would get their grub . |
| 21 | Ralph had planned it but they had all been party to his evil . |
| 22 | They 've refurbished it but they 've not made any space for a down escalator have they ? |
| 23 | Social Services or somebody to do with or somewhere contacted him and asked him to do it but they paid all cash . |
| 24 | No some other people were saying about that , you know , ah that they , you know that they were gon na put in for it but they would n't let them cos it was shop , you know , blah blah blah . |
| 25 | You know , they counted it but they missed putting it in . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Wo n't admit it but they probably do n't know all |
| 28 | gets past but he ca n't get past and Shrewsbury are breaking with it but they 're still inside their own half at the moment with Kevin who gave them the fighting chance with the original equalizer inside the first half . |
| 29 | Well I do n't know whether they 'd get it but they do n't want to upset people , the fact that they 've been really inconvenienced by not having it does n't seem to come into their thinking . |
| 30 | pull it up , well they might leave it and just co disconnect it but they they 'd have to bring it in , I do n't it 'd be better I think if we had ours in the back because the , the telephone thing comes in from the back be better than having it in the , in the passage really . |