Example sentences of "[noun sg] but you [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He , he , he was er more or less well off , still in , in Terrace but you know he was , they seemed to be well off and probably were . |
| 2 | As you come up down the road on the left ha , on the left hand side but you got ta go down there |
| 3 | Well that 's a fourteen inch grate , fire a fourteen inch grate but you 've got the gap all round it like so I thought eighteen inch . |
| 4 | Oh no , it is nice to have a nice car but you have to make do do n't you ? |
| 5 | … [ Take ] temperature — you 've got a thermometer in the car but you begin to feel what is about thirty degrees C. You sense that that 's about thirty . |
| 6 | Er er , but er well it 's not a perfect analogy but you see the point I 'm making . |
| 7 | we will provide you with a new schedule for your guidance but you do not have to complete it unless you want to . |
| 8 | If you normally work 4 days a week and lose 1 day , you meet the requirements of the 3 out of 6 rule but you do not meet the requirements of ‘ substantial loss of employment ’ . |
| 9 | fighting but you know last week , no it was n't , who was it ? |
| 10 | You have n't got a fashionable figure but you carry yourself well . |
| 11 | you are very welcome to stay for lunch but you say you ca n't . |
| 12 | It was very hard work but you felt , well I 've done a good day 's work when you 'd finished . |
| 13 | Sorry about the mess but you caught me on the hop like . |
| 14 | They 've all been joining in singing a Christmas carol but you have given me an idea for your present but you 'll have to hurry though - it 's Christmas Eve . |
| 15 | It 's worth also noting at this point that if you are a tenant and renting and you lose your job you are eligible for housing benefit , erm if you if you were er buying your house , although you do get some er er you get the interest I believe on your mortgage paid , there are lots of other things that do not get paid but the thing is that if you have a reduction in your income which might happen where one partner say lost a job , er you s you 're eligible for housing benefit but you get nothing as far as company paid mortgage is concerned . |
| 16 | ‘ Look here , Jenna , he may be your stepbrother but you do n't know him from Adam . |
| 17 | You may win the battle but you 've lost the war . |
| 18 | and , and , er of course that the commission looked at this as er , er , as a question to be looked at in the context of the market and of all facts , but they said you , if you want restrictions you can be sure that we wo n't give you any exemption for them , so you 'd better remove every single solitary objection , objec er restriction that we identify , that 's why at the end of the day they got er , it was a very , very strict approach by the commission , you can have nothing which is acceptable , you can get negative clearance but you 've got to be cleaner than clean , whiter than white , so remove every possible restriction . |
| 19 | ‘ Why ? ’ is a useful question when someone has made an error but you want them to diagnose it . |
| 20 | No what happens is you buy the beach hut but you rent them on , you rent the plot |
| 21 | I used to enjoy it when Alistair was a wee boy but you grow out of it |
| 22 | ‘ His timing was impeccable , and he ended up the hero but you set your own standards and once they are high you have got to keep up with them . |
| 23 | ‘ You pretend to offer assistance but you urge surrender . |
| 24 | You 've still got the girl but you have n't got the money . ’ |
| 25 | There have to be , there are particular reasons why er after revolutionary upheavals you very often get authoritarian forms of government and I would say in Russia and i i in a sense it 's linked with Harold 's question as well about erm the Chinese following a Stalinist model of economic reconstruction think what you 've actually got in Russia is not this sort of mass hankering after authoritarianism but you 've got a situation where the bureaucracy that controls a completely devastated , backward economy , which is what they 've actually got in the early nineteen twenties , where the working class democracy has just disappeared really with , with the , with the economic collapse , with the factories shutting down , with all of the old communist party militants going into the Red Army or getting sucked into the state bureaucracy with that sort of complete collapse really , economically and socially and politically , you 've got a situation where the central priority of the leadership is to build up Russian industry as quickly as possible so that Russia has got the armed forces it needs |
| 26 | But Joyce Standing , a member of several community groups on the estate , said : ‘ There are endless delays on North Road because of congestion but you do n't hear the bus companies threatening to stop those services . ’ |
| 27 | You want the sound of a valve amp but you do n't want the hassle ; Smooth Tubes are analogue preamp stages packaged in a valve-like format . |
| 28 | Clive James summed it up when he said , ‘ It 's one thing to ask the question but you 've got to listen to the answer so that your next question follows on . |
| 29 | You take the two , the smaller digit from the larger digit but you give the answer the sign of a larger digit . |
| 30 | I 'm new in this place but you 've got to learn fast or go under . |