Example sentences of "[det] but [subord] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Everything 's hunky-dory and I never hope I ever knock this , I do n't know whether Susan wants to hear this but since we started doing
2 Brutus says that he has no real reason to believe that Caesar would change his nature like this but because they had no proof either was it would be too much of a presumption to say that he would not change at all .
3 and erm of course computers did n't help in the slightest because er , I think the er , I may be wrong about this but as I understood it erm the computer programmer worked for West Suffolk but at the time of reorganization he 'd got himself another job .
4 ‘ We have contingency plans for a major incident like this but when it happens it is very difficult to cope .
5 Mr Parkinson can turn his back on all this but if he decides to confront it , road pricing is one of the few tools at his disposal .
6 You should have been notified by your employer if he opted for this but if you never heard anything , or can not remember , write to that employer , or to the DHSS , and enquire .
7 I hardly dare mention traffic calming but it does seem to be the flavour of of the month at the moment but to see that the existing work doubled by and I know it 's going to cost the county erm this but if you do n't want to talk about the children and their crime it is er traffic calming it certainly is a and I do believe
8 One shopkeeper , who wished to remain anonymous , said : ‘ People around here are worried about things like this but if you complain and ICI close the place down what happens then .
9 Well , I 'll have a go but I may not eat all this but if it was smaller it 's really tasty as well .
10 so then they 'd be about three pound or four pound in pocket and that 's how they , that 's how we used to help one another but once they get one rope ashore they could do it , the job see but of course there 's no boatmen today now , they call theirself boatmen but there ai n't one of the buggers going in a boat , I do n't suppose they could row a boat now .
11 Now it is very difficult , clearly to compare qualitatively er one route with another but if you take an example , the effect on greenbelt land , which should you look towards the back , it 's just one that springs to mind but there there are no doubt er there will be others which we can go into .
12 That that 's not much but if it 's if it 's I mean if it 's not padded out with waffle and drivel cos you I mean if it 's a good ti concise answer that 'll probably get a good mark .
13 Actually , actually I like to you do n't say much but when you say it it 's nothing .
14 And for those who liked to go to the office every morning by the 8.15 there were class rooms and classes where nobody learnt very much but where everybody thought they were doing something .
15 A textured yarn will often hide these but if you want to avoid them then proceed as follows : Finish the rib with the lock on the left of the bed .
16 It was odd that he had n't thought about that but immediately it came back to him , the name of the exchange , though Hilbert 's phone had been disconnected .
17 A plan is a very good way of addressing that but unless you can get a plan out in under five minutes , yeah , then it mi you might consider a better use of your time .
18 ‘ I am sure of that but whether we take them or not remains to be seen .
19 you say that but if we had a cigarette lighter in in this car , a socket an electrical socket I 'd
20 That , of course is that , that of course is the the problem of national curriculum it 's your interpretation of of the national curriculum and there is I mean , if Judith says a child is level three , I would accept that but if somebody from Spring Garden said this child is level five , I 'm certainly not going to accept that without evidence that I have !
21 So you know , nothing might come of that but if it does erm I would be very keen to actually er the , the plan was to second a member of C S M T for six months to do it , and I would be very keen to do it I must admit .
22 I love a piece of orange , I I would n't eat a whole orange but I do like er little pieces of oranges now I might get away with that but if I was to have a whole orange
23 IT 'S bad enough paying crippling interest rates without having to pay an annual fee on top of that but if you shop around you can avoid the charge .
24 I mean if you speak three different languages you could use three different words to put the same sort of thought of a picture dog , chien , hound there 's probably an Italian and a and that but if you speak the languages then different words different codes if you like are for the same idea .
25 You could n't maybe do the ploughing and that but if you were out spreading dung you or neeps you 'd to just the same as the men and the the man may man might be getting maybe about twenty pound in the half a year and the boys maybe only getting twelve or something like that .
26 Not only that but when we found the mattress we were searching for , one corner had been completely eaten away .
27 Well I should say that but when he 's at work he works shifts but I I am on
28 Well some of it erm with some of it is , I mean it 's like the taxation side and , and things like that I can understand quite easily because I 'm used to dealing in that but when it comes
29 no , so we did n't have an invite I know , I mean normally I 'm taken every year you know , there , to see the old time musical which is great and I look forward to that but cos I did n't get , get there and I love going to Leah Manning as I say we have dancing there on a Wednesday afternoon it 's great , I enjoy it ever so much and I meet all my friends there that I have n't seen for years , you know , that I used to go to clubs with and they 've all arrived there now you know it 's great to see them , I thoroughly enjoy it .
30 beef about that but because it was such a lovely day
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