Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] but i " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a bit shit but I liked it . |
| 2 | I fell asleep and remember him lifting me off and putting me on the settee cushion but I 'd had a tiring evening and hardly stirred . |
| 3 | It is obvious that large volumes of private cars use the Park roads but I was surprised at the extent of this , as revealed by the Traffic Survey — nearly 20,000 vehicles a day . |
| 4 | Erm , there is one slight technical problem which I have to overcome in relation to a computer terminal but I 'll erm face that problem at if and when that situation develops . |
| 5 | I mainly used the Boogie amplifier but I used a bunch of stuff as well , like really terrible sounding digital distortion just to get different harmonics for rhythm tracks . |
| 6 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 7 | We have set up a Review Group but I do not think all action can wait on its recommendations . |
| 8 | The little sitting room but I ca n't stand that ! |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not meaning to talk shop but I thought you might be interested . ’ |
| 10 | We know it 's eighty from the stock count but I do n't know what the computer says . |
| 11 | ‘ We read a lot these days about school and industry partnerships but I am pleased to say that ‘ partnership ’ is not a new word to us , ’ said Corporate Affairs Director and Company Secretary , Harold Bolter . |
| 12 | Erm , I 'd consider myself to have an eating disorder but I do n't have anorexia or bulimia . |
| 13 | Sophie does n't particularly like eating breakfast but I insist she has something . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I managed to get clear at Metropole but then Mick came up beside me at the Juniper chicane but I was n't going to be beaten at this stage and I just managed to hold on . ’ |
| 15 | It was too cold to push my face far out of my sleeping bag but I could see the yellow damp stain , like a map , on the wall opposite , and the little nest of cobwebs in a comer of the ceiling . |
| 16 | It was a sponsored project , probably by one of the drug companies but I 'm not sure . |
| 17 | ‘ I told 'em about you an' the money lender but I did n't know they were gooin' to snowball yer , ’ she said , pulling me to my feet . |
| 18 | been a lot of crucial areas this afternoon Alan but I for me I think by and large Leicester have always had the edge in midfield . |
| 19 | In fact there were very few guide dogs at that time and erm I 've never felt that erm it 's , I mean maybe just my erm silliness really but I , I never wanted a dog lying about all day because once at the office I stayed put as it were until it was time to go home and I could have taken the dog I suppose during the lunch hour but I preferred that time to erm to reading |
| 20 | I 'm sorry about being in a mood Saturday but I was n't really in a mood with you . |
| 21 | Yevgeniev , the King of the Boards , was leading into the home straight but I surged past him to take the gold medal . |
| 22 | I 'll I 'll be going to the village hall but I me I have |
| 23 | I 'll , I 'll be going to the village hall but I might have to go back to the Cross Keys , that 's why I put Roger , perhaps I put the wrong thing on you see ? |
| 24 | I , I 'm a general practitioner and I would like to back up initially what the convenor has said about the study pack that has come on child abuse but I have a question . |
| 25 | This really is committee work but I , it does occur to me that mention it that erm , if in our advertising we point out that we have a car park attendant and if that car park attendant were to let one slip through his fingers me were , we may well then be liable to be sued by the person who |
| 26 | ‘ I would have preferred to have given them a run chase but I then decided we had to be positive and get whatever we could out of the match , ’ said Moxon . |
| 27 | on the faxes , just erm one item that came up really from yesterday which I 've already passed on to , to Sheila from the south cos it was raised at the south meeting but I think it 's relevant to everybody . |
| 28 | I know it is , it 's not exactly doing a lot for me either but er cos it gets raised every bloody management meeting but I think having discussed the matter we 've actually opened ourselves out a few more options than we probably thought we had |
| 29 | I occasionally buy an item to add to my own stamp collection but I 'm not committed to keeping it complete . |
| 30 | The government feels it can rely on er auditors to protect the interests of share holders and the creditors and the other stake holders but I have to tell the minister that that reliance which is now er strengthened by the regulations b by the er the order today has always proved er inadequate in the er in in the past er because poor auditing practices always get covered up , there 's no way for anybody to know how bad or how good er the audit is as long as a company er survives and we have n't developed in this country , the proper institutional framework to regulate auditors er effectively and to actually make them er er accountable . |