Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [verb] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | By simplifying and emphasizing the features of major strokes we can make them easier to teach but paddle strokes are only copies of the real thing . |
| 2 | you know I , I think , I think usually what I say about questionnaires is towards the business of , you know , kind of writing them in people 's own words that , that sort of fit in with ordinary language okay putting them in a sensible order advising people to do scale type things with five or seven points or something which you 've got a lot of already so a lot of the comments that I normally make on people 's questionnaires er you can take as read as it were erm so I think erm you know just really one or two minor things about layout like , you know , you know sort of space and , and moving things around a wee bit , it might make them easier to read but again as I say that 's a you know relatively minor erm problem . |
| 3 | ‘ He came out to the hospital every weekend after I first came but since then it 's only every so often he comes out . |
| 4 | There was approximately thirty pupils attended the school when I first started but now the number has dropped to twenty three children . |
| 5 | Its the middle of the race and its easy to relax but you ca n't . |
| 6 | I just ca n't imagine how you could rhythm if it 's like that I suppose you got ta s start with them all running but still |
| 7 | Weddings are a very important part , and a part that er , we all enjoy but erm we , I would n't say it was the major part of a florist 's business , there 's quite a few other aspects . |
| 8 | We well we did , we looked at it when we first opened but it was like another grand to do that . |
| 9 | We both smoke but er I smoke roll your own cigarettes and I and half an ounce lasts me a week . |
| 10 | There 's nothing worse to come but just a different perspective which will probably put this whole thing into a new light . ’ |
| 11 | Or have they all left but the soldiers ? ’ |
| 12 | I know they all have but I mean I 'd rather have the ordinary names and then |
| 13 | Any of these devices could obviously offer more attractive price incentives were they mass produced but at present fairly small amounts are being spent on wave energy research , which has , so far , not caught the imagination of large investors whether government or private , in the same way as , for instance , nuclear fusion . |
| 14 | They both waited but said nothing until the circular glow had disappeared behind another cloud , when finally the captain came scurrying towards them . |
| 15 | VRT 3 , as it is called , has over 100 new features , making it easier to use but more powerful than its predecessor , according to Dimension . |
| 16 | Incorporated into the camera is a built in 38–115mm power zoom lens , made possible by adopting ‘ binocular ’ styling which makes it easy to hold but still allows easy access to the various functions . |
| 17 | Yeah yeah I know you find it hard to believe but they do . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , ’ replied Becky , ‘ foolish pride was how it all began but . ’ |
| 19 | you might think you have it all planned but have you ever set up a studio before . |
| 20 | Some of these people may not have found it convenient to visit but may have phoned ; some may have ‘ visited ’ but not gained access to the ward . |
| 21 | They had found it difficult to part but , as things were getting desperate , they turned to magic and said ‘ Abracadabra , one , two , three , say the magic words and now we 're free ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ It is possible that one or two plants might think it worthwhile to upgrade but they would have to be very sure there was a large and lucrative market there to warrant the investment . ’ |
| 23 | Presentation techniques , a few things here that might help you in terms of making it interesting as it were and the actual delivery of your training your posture , keep your posture erect , but relaxed I do n't really know what that means but er er stand up . |
| 24 | But with this one , think it 's an endowment or something , I do n't kn I do n't know what that means but you 've got to be able to give five to ten percent as a deposit . |
| 25 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |
| 26 | Somewhere there , but off the would n't it be but erm it was an event erm when I had a rise in wages my mother being a dressmaker she used to have a machine under the little front window and when I got a , I had a , they 'd put my wages up to ten shillings , and when I got in mum came over and said what 's the matter with you she said you seem as if you 're walking on air I said I 'd had a rise in wages and it was up from eight and four pence up to ten shillings I do n't know what that seems but still . |