Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] but it " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a consequence of which well we went to Egypt and the Sudan this business , we came back and er the b the the foreman 's brother he ne he never liked me ever this forema when I were a kid you know , he never liked me at all , I never got on with him and and er mind you there 's a long story about that but it 's a silly little thing that er that I really upset him with . |
| 2 | Well now I do n't know whether you know anything about that but it 's a make words . |
| 3 | Sorry about that but it 's just you 're representing him |
| 4 | Yeah , I forgot all about that but it did n't matter anyway . |
| 5 | Yeah , I was thinking about that but it 's got ta be vegetarian and have n't got the meat . |
| 6 | Elderly people require a lot of time and effort on a GP 's part , the GP gets extra money for that but it may not compensate for the extra work . ’ |
| 7 | Now , at this you may not have sympathy for that but it 's significant in circles I 've seen that you just do n't that Johnson has bothered to write out exactly how that play should be acted out , he 's trying to stay in control of his plays . |
| 8 | Some hairdressers charge extra for this but it 's well worth paying a few pounds for . |
| 9 | I am often asked for this but it is difficult to obtain . |
| 10 | It might be tempting to make a small charge for this but it may be even more advantageous to offer this as a free service with the profit being goodwill . |
| 11 | His sonorous voice and deliberate utterance may to a great extent account for this but it should also be remarked that as Highbury Quadrant was the first church to introduce the Electrophone , perfection has been probably acquired by long practice in the details requisite to success . ’ |
| 12 | Erm there are various calculations for this but it 's it 's going to actually be at least one year 's average salary . |
| 13 | It began to spread to other areas after 1770 but it was not until about 1830 , when roads were improving , that this relatively isolated breed was gradually developed for dray-pulling as well . |
| 14 | There 's an instrumental track called Bone Down , and there was originally a guitar solo after that but it did n't fit well — you know , like a good solo will make the song move in the right direction . |
| 15 | Houses and some streets appeared after 1660 but it was not until 1775 when Bedford Square was laid out that the growth of Bloomsbury began . |
| 16 | Well it does tell you for Central but it , up there . |
| 17 | Oh the by-pass road , you know the north northern part of Ipswich , along the by-pass and of course had ordered trolley buses , because you had to order 'em about two years ahead of time , erm , to take care of that but it did n't materialize and we had a surplus of buses and some of them were sold off , I think some went to Walsall , some to Wolverhampton and er I , I think it was one of those that was sold to Wals Woolwich , figured in the national newspapers that had toppled over . |
| 18 | The UNESCO Report could be a first step towards this but it needs international organizations like UNESCO and IFLA to take the action they have not so far done . |
| 19 | Now someone whose doctor is elderly could quite naturally refer to him or her using ( 45 ) where superscript 3 indicates rising tone while mid tone is indicated by the absence of a superscript numeral : ( 45 ) The following sentence : ( 46 ) is also perfectly acceptable , and might even be translated by the same words of English but it carries instead the meaning that the person concerned ( who might be twenty-six years old and a fairly fresh graduate from medical college ) has been established as one 's doctor for some time and is not , for example , another practitioner who has recently moved into the district . |
| 20 | Mark Garner , a consultant with the channel 's parent company , Continental Television , said : ‘ The extra three nights will have films in Italian , German and French instead of English but it should n't be a problem for British viewers because dialogue is n't our strong point . ’ |
| 21 | Ormskirk made it two wins out of three but it was a close run thing against New Brighton . |
| 22 | Jack said : ‘ They 've made an offer of 200,000 but it 's not enough . |
| 23 | It 's kind of stupid but it 's kind of funny if you know what I mean cos the baby do n't talk and as soon as the Mum and Dad 's out of the room it 's let's go and find the chocolate . |
| 24 | Its mortality record is not only worse than that of social class I by a factor of 3 but it is 42% worse than that of social class V ( table I ) . |
| 25 | tried sets of five but it nearly but you two two left over so that 's no good |
| 26 | It 's kind of scary but it 's also what we 've wanted . ’ |
| 27 | She 'd been writing for the NME , about David Cassidy and things like that but it must have been quite a struggle to get by . |
| 28 | There may well be some examples of families which operate like that but it is not the general pattern , even in relationships between parents and children which come closest to it . |
| 29 | It was inevitable that she should start like that but it did n't save her from a sense of her inadequacy . |
| 30 | But er cigarette smoke , I mean you would n't think of pu I do n't whether it was a strong make or something like that but it was , it seemed really offensive did n't |