Example sentences of "[pers pn] but [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I want it like yours but like you said I 'd have to buy erm Artex and get Chris to do it . |
| 2 | But she 's she 's she does n't want it she did n't want the jewels did she but when she nearly had them . |
| 3 | ‘ I stopped just behind you but before I could get out of the car you were well away . |
| 4 | Erm sixty six percent of people believe that the people you vote for say they 'll do things for you but once they 're in they forget what they 've said . |
| 5 | I do n't know about you but once I pick these Mills and Boone books up I ca n't stop reading the flipping things . |
| 6 | No they 're ca n't you see by retaliating , they are getting at you but if they had n't of got to you , you would n't of retaliated Like if I , i i it 's like if I |
| 7 | Well if you if you could n't read it yeah you can get someone to help you but if you ca n't u usually see you know quite a lot of words . |
| 8 | But what date it was I could n't tell you but if you like to mind when when they first started . |
| 9 | If you go to see this football club to watch the football match , you are not allowed to park on the grass verge outside because the police do n't let you but if you go to a car boot sale at the football club the next day the cars , the grass verge is littered with cars cos it 's Sunday presumably and the police are not allowed to enforce on it so I do think that some of the traffic problems maybe need to be more carefully reinforced to stop this , you know , to stop the dealers you 're not going tyo these places but you know I think you do need to , you do need to , to regulate them but please , you know , do n't let's push them out altogether . |
| 10 | Now what that actually means is that the money er will go to your daughter if anything happened to you but if you re er was still alive come maturity time you could then take the proceeds yourself to then give her . |
| 11 | You go inside then please go on you can take that with you but if you want the potty you g go and sit on it now cos I do n't want any more wet trousers . |
| 12 | I had hoped you would be able to help me but since you say you ca n't I shall have to pursue other avenues . |
| 13 | I think he had a little corner in his heart for me but if we had got together and he had gone off with someone else I could n't have stood the hurt and humiliation . |
| 14 | If I was born in that period , I would be dead already , and you would n't need to listen to me But if you look at this as far as the medical profession and the insurance profession need each other , what happened to these people when they develop an infective condition ? |
| 15 | ‘ I pushed the pram to the top of the street I was afraid they were following me but when I looked round there was nobody there so I just ran to my mum 's . ’ |
| 16 | An O S one to fifty thousand and that 's what I thought I 'd picked up this morning to take with me but when I looked it was Chester and Wrexham so it did n't do me much good . |
| 17 | Oh well we 've been walking when we 've gone into town but I mean just between you and me but when I got home Bev said pop into town I 've got a parcel to post and I said well I ca n't I said because according to Des well nothing happened |
| 18 | ‘ I do trust George completely ’ Annette went on ‘ I just have to with his work and so much he ca n't tell me but when he come back in that state I just could n't help … |
| 19 | Not because I thought I should have been picked there were at least 15 guys playing better than me but because I had n't performed as I felt I should have done . |
| 20 | I only hope that you will never have to read this letter — not because my life is worth anything to me but because it breaks my heart to think of you alone in a world which I have found to be so harsh and unforgiving . |
| 21 | The plates still had some food on them but although I found some meat , it had a strange gloopy liquid on it so I gave it a miss . |
| 22 | I think there is an element of contrariness about them but if they were really honest with themselves deep down , I do n't think they would be happy if their records went in at number 150 and they were still playing The Bull And Gate . |
| 23 | If you can hear me you must be within five or six miles of them but if they get to the Motorway first they 'll be able to lose you . |
| 24 | but when I was eleven years old I did n't look at the sixth form and do jus just because they were doing something I wanted to do it , I might have admired them but if they were smoking that would n't make me want to smoke . |
| 25 | ‘ I have seen them but if we can produce the form we have shown in our last eight to 10 games we can win , ’ said Rutter . |
| 26 | Servants would probably warn them but if there was an outside staircase and his men dashed up — ? |
| 27 | At times the sounds seemed so close he could have reached out and touched them but if he moved from his spot everything fell silent . |
| 28 | She really has this er attitude which I can not understand because erm a a as I think it was Al Reeve said , you know , erm some people ca n't bear children , we ca n't , but we like them but if you have actually borne children , you are in other words a mother , you 've got ta have a attitude , not only to children in general but to your children in particular , which is very very difficult for er a male to understand and a non-father , it 's gon na be very very difficult cos I personally do n't have any children at all and therefore it is very very difficult for me to even comprehend but given that I can erm I can sympathize with something I do not comprehend it must be monumentally difficult for her |
| 29 | She said : ‘ I 'm disappointed I did n't catch them but if it happens again I 'll get ‘ em . ’ |
| 30 | Stuart pointed just ahead of them but as he spoke , a little white Mini sped past them and slid into the place he had spotted . |