Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] but it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bid around £2 million for him shortly after I arrived but it was turned down . |
| 2 | This was not actually what I meant but it was reported as a sort of ‘ leadership whinge ’ and general complaint . |
| 3 | And then I switched over and I thought but it 's a about this little boy . |
| 4 | And I I went but it was so embarrassing it made me ill . |
| 5 | Yes I did , it started going , I do n't know what I did but it started going it started |
| 6 | I said well I 'll buy the two leave them there I said but it 's done so simple . |
| 7 | I , I morning , I , she get what I said when you get one , I went and got you one I said but it was one ninety nine . |
| 8 | Does n't make it any better if you messed about it picked up what I said but it did n't pick up very well what Jenny said . |
| 9 | He says no , but he , he , he still half owns it , he says his name 's on the lease , I said but it still do n't make it right that if he , if he earned half of it then half the bills are his |
| 10 | ‘ I thought it was a weakness I had but it was n't — it proved to be my strength . |
| 11 | This is what a girl in Borstal meant when she said to me , ‘ I gave him everything I had but it was n't enough ’ . |
| 12 | I mean that one out there is , like the same as the one I had but it 's E F five which is fuel efficient , you know , like it 's got the extra fuel efficient , and it really is it 's good on petrol . |
| 13 | I thought I would go home when I left but it has been a long time . |
| 14 | ‘ I worked all my life and saved so I would have no worry when I retired but it 's a different story now . |
| 15 | This is n't what I wanted but it feels right . |
| 16 | So you 've had a sharp increase in our shareholders ' funds during the six months and a reduction in our net debt which may not be quite as er substantial as you expected but it is the combination of on the one hand the proceeds of Elsivir less some reinvestment which Frank mentioned , we put a little more money in B S B and the minority interests and we do have traditionally in the first half an adverse net movement of funds from operation about ninety five million and then we had thirty two million odd er of simply revaluation as a result of translating our dollar debt at er the one sixty as opposed to the year ending rate . |
| 17 | C'm on Morocco ! ’ she cheered but it was half-hearted . |
| 18 | Gee up ! ’ she repeated but it was no good , the horse stood still . |
| 19 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |
| 20 | Yes , it was the Felipe de Santis she remembered but it was also the man she had had harsh words with this morning — the driver of the red Porsche . |
| 21 | Or else you sort of jotted them down at the back of your mind , you know , to think about them later , but you never remembered , or you did but it was too late , they 'd gone , your head was full of other things . ’ |
| 22 | I did resent her quite a lot for what she did but it gave way after a few months . |
| 23 | She said alright it 's twenty five quid , it 's an expense but she said but it 's something that she 'll keep . |
| 24 | I know what you said but it is n't even dried yet . |
| 25 | We hid but it made no difference , they still found us . |
| 26 | but I can hardly remember what we decided but it seems that we 've now got |
| 27 | No cos they bent round and we had a tie , we did but it was only a little bannister you know , we tried it |
| 28 | No , this one yo , well we had but it was n't a fast tan . |
| 29 | We 're nothing , of ourselves we might have thought we had but it was of no value whatsoever , but he took us , he says , now you 're something because you belong to me . |
| 30 | Some we chased but it was only a matter of chasing them out of the way . |