Example sentences of "[pers pn] but you [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I keep telling you but you wo n't listen . |
| 2 | I 've suggested several simple patterns for you but you can elaborate further on these yourself . |
| 3 | It 'll be too big for you but you can get a belt at Woolworth 's . ’ |
| 4 | Now as I said way back at the very beginning , the greeting and appropriate sociability will set the scene if it 's too short or too long it will doubtlessly alienate the whole process but you can see the domino effect you but you can see the domino effect you |
| 5 | ‘ I am afraid it will not be a very happy Christmas for you but you will not lose your job , ’ said the judge . |
| 6 | Yes if erm two girls were in a toilet you were fined and they used to stop the money , oh yes two girls were fined it was a very strict there it was er quite as strict there as it was a H & T Hornes and erm you , you but you could have a drink there , but er at one time before they allowed a drink , a cup of tea , the men used to , someone to watch to see if , when we were working in the top shop cos we could see if anyone came up the , up the shop into , from the bottom shop into top shop then they put a can on erm on something to boil you see and er oh and we got a little sto coal stove to heat the shop , no central heating pipes or anything like that , and they put er someone you could see anyone coming up the , up the steps and er anyway there was someone , one of the bosses coming up so they erm whipped the can off , ran round the back of the bench wh where there were a lot of hand presses going and Mr walked straight he was only mad that off the can of boiling water |
| 7 | Oh , right , ah thank you but you could come any other time . |
| 8 | Other people use titles to address you but you should not use a title , only your name . |
| 9 | The County Council er w would train you but you 'd do your erm year 's training and then you had to work for them for a year , I think it was a year or eighteen months . |
| 10 | We 'll all help you but you must make a real effort too . |
| 11 | You can catch me but you ca n't catch me yet Come on mum , they want you talking ! |
| 12 | Erm when you read it you come across strange words you know words that maybe you know you 've heard them but you would n't think of trying to write them . |
| 13 | Well I was gon na change them but you might as well . |
| 14 | One can hardly blame them but you can be sure that they are not thinking that those poor people in the audience must be feeling hungry — they simply want to increase their profits . |
| 15 | The great thing about teddies is that you can love them … or leave them but you can never ignore them forever |
| 16 | Kathy those documents have been there all week and you not taken the trouble to look at them but you will quip about the poll tax and its iniquities but you ca n't even read your own poll tax notice . |
| 17 | At first the dog may only sniff at them but you should soon be able to encourage it to play with them . |
| 18 | Philip reckoned he was n't as big as him but you could n't have told what age he was . |
| 19 | In an American garden I heard another frog , a hyla , which is the world 's best ventriloquist ; you can hear him but you will never find him . |
| 20 | You might wish to help her but you would n't think of advising her ; and usually she needed no help , either . |
| 21 | No put your tie on so it goes over your collar that 's right , now it goes over your ti over your shirt collar at the back and then that 's it but you 'll have to , you 'll have to do it yourself soon , you know |
| 22 | You try to come to terms with it but you ca n't . |
| 23 | you can lose it but you ca n't guess |
| 24 | I came on a train here today from London in South Africa if you are black and you got on a train it would n't be as comfortable and there would be crowds in it but you would n't know whether you reached the other end because at some station a group of people would get on and shoot you indiscriminately , and get off again leaving that scene of massacre . |
| 25 | Oh yes and that 's those only that would do it but you would n't get the ordinary man taking any he would just be on his rounds . |
| 26 | You ca n't really dance to it but you can stomp to it . |
| 27 | You ca n't stop it but you can influence it . |
| 28 | Most of them do n't show it but you can set it to show it . |
| 29 | And it does that because a wind has sprung up , you ca n't see it but you can observe its effect . |
| 30 | I 'm actually , I 'm quite high on as theorist as well and I like to write everything out in full and I clear structures and if I go to training sessions and they 're all over the place , it 's such a in about five minutes and I have to say hang on a minute it might not be structured in the way that you like it but you can actually learn from it . |