Example sentences of "[pron] but [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must admit I but they rang every day and every night . |
| 2 | Well so was I but we finished about two . |
| 3 | I but we 've got two products there . |
| 4 | And I but I 've never she runs off with ashtrays and ornaments , remote control , pipe lighters . |
| 5 | Conditioner , it just dries into your hair , cos when I but I come out , going like this |
| 6 | Well I did n't differentiate it but I but I did because I could n't decide . |
| 7 | yeah I should of done really , so I but I did n't know I was going back . |
| 8 | I know but I but I do n't know if I can be bothered tonight . |
| 9 | I but I believe in telepathy . |
| 10 | He was a good player but I but I think he 's always looked after himself , I mean he 's he 's |
| 11 | I but I think , a bit , it 's a bit too fatty for me . |
| 12 | She came , she , it 's an awful lot of bother , you know , and erm , I but she said well I have n't got time to do it , if you take as well . |
| 13 | I know it would help to talk to someone but I find it so hard to open up . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) In the epistemic sense of ‘ appears ’ it makes no sense to say that the sea appears to be blue to someone but he does not know it , or that line AB appears to him to be shorter than line BC but he does not know it , or that the young lady/old woman figure appears to him to be a drawing of a young lady but he does not know it . |
| 15 | ‘ We started off doing everything ourselves but it became too much . |
| 16 | And er fertilizers we s tell lo still sell loose and packet them ourselves but it has altered . |
| 17 | He 's still kept his but he 's got lived in , all the property he owns he can have the town square , there 's nothing ! |
| 18 | I said , well I 'll find somebody but I hope you have n't got chicken pox . |
| 19 | I feel bitter that while I was out there I was somebody but I 've come back as a third class citizen . |
| 20 | And er he he was having a conference in , course with dropping out of the Labour Party , the Labour Party finished with him and did n't bother and anyw he he someone I do n't know who it was , it was n't him himself but someone told me that he was looking for somebody to organize this conference in , so I said , Well I I 'll do it . |
| 21 | ‘ It was a private sale from Templeman himself but it 's got to be six figures . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , each Neapolitan is out for himself but he recognises the need to live as harmoniously as possible with everyone else . ’ |
| 23 | She said he would have come himself but he had to go Oxford of course . |
| 24 | Not only did George have to fend for himself but he had to protect and feed Lennie so there was a very large responsibility on him . |
| 25 | he did some of the flying himself but he had other pilots . |
| 26 | Campbell is not saying that Christ takes our sin upon himself but he identifies so closely with us that it is as if he makes our confession and is thus separated from the presence of God for us . |
| 27 | To achieve the rank of finalist is not only an honour for himself but he feels that it is shared with those who have worked with him in the team . |
| 28 | For a time he believed he had a vocation to be a priest himself but he reverted to a previous plan to save sufficient money to go to university . |
| 29 | So he could have saved himself but he did n't want to . |
| 30 | I remember Glyn and the kids were very young I think some of the were born in Blaenau erm and they were dismantling an old quarry at there his brother W R from Harlech had bought it usa like a machinery merchant and Glyn then borrowed a lot of tools off me for dismantling it then we started we we 'd done a lot off and on together we 'd been in er I enjoyed working with him , he was the type of man very hard worker himself but he wanted his pound of flesh . |