Example sentences of "[v-ing] but [pron] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lads that are on strike well I mean you 'd think it 'd be vice versa him being like a blackleg er that 's er they 'd be agitating but he 's vice versa . |
| 2 | And they 'll check that out for you and we 'll see what 's happening but it 's just in case there 's any arthritis or anything like that that 's |
| 3 | The expansion of forestry by means of a policy of attrition and isolation of farms is occurring but it is not necessarily a process which in the long term will lead to a reasonable balance of land use . |
| 4 | I do n't mind walking but it 's I get the shopping |
| 5 | I was just looking but there 's no wrestling on telly at the mom , it 's foot er |
| 6 | No he 's alright looking but he 's just boring . |
| 7 | Well you see following instructions is n't really problem solving but it 's sa partly a long line and the kid 's would know what it means mm , that they know |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll see how I feel before deciding but it 's a bit of a predicament , ’ he said . |
| 9 | People always think we ignore them when they 're waiting but it is n't really like that . |
| 10 | and records himself going for a piss but he does a bit , it cuts out when he 's actually pissing but he 's going on about now the biros are getting in the way of my knob here |
| 11 | I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay . |
| 12 | Do n't know what he 's doing but he 's |
| 13 | Editing a program you like is fine if you know what you 're doing but it 's too easy to spend hours fiddling with the EQ to get the distortion to sound just so , when getting the right room size is the element that makes the sound . |
| 14 | It is running but it 's not showing us anything |
| 15 | We thought you were n't coming but it 's wonderful you got here . ’ |
| 16 | The idea of devoting one 's career to helping the other fellow on his way , rejoicing , may be ennobling but it is sometimes more evident in theory than in practice . |
| 17 | You know , I mean , she keeps stopping but she 's , she 's remarkable ! |
| 18 | I mean the one fear surely is that this is n't something which is happening on a , I was going to say a small local area , that 's perhaps exaggerating but it is in a at the moment in a confined locality , we know where it is , it 's not actually here and |
| 19 | No , it was n't that bad , I was exaggerating but it 's like , it seems like |
| 20 | Perhaps this debate wo n't be as lively and er as controversial as the one that er we arranged to have on the question of insider dealing but it is an important matter because auditing as I said , is not just as assistance to companies but it is a reassurance to the general public and the public at the moment are in need of grave reassurance that the insur that the er the financial services industry as well as industry generally , is being properly looked after and for these reasons er although we support er the orders before er the house tonight , we have no hesitation at all in ensuring that they are debated properly than not something that should simply go through on the nod . |
| 21 | Yes but it 's not It 's not hurting but it 's disturbing you know ? |
| 22 | the rain 's falling but no-one 's bothered . |
| 23 | So there are answers that no it 's not that different in some ways from other fore er from other policy making but there is another side of foreign policy in which you say yes , there are clear differences . |
| 24 | and then last year we did Peter Pan and I said right I 'm leaving but she 's always wanted |
| 25 | Erm , no we need , we need to get a whole load of ne er tiles cos the whole club wants re-tiling , not re-tiling but there 's a whole area , areas and that . |
| 26 | And I could be throwing but it 's the sort of thing that 's gon na come into your circuit stuff . |
| 27 | We are hopeful these figures show the numbers are reducing but it 's hard to say for sure . |
| 28 | Or if they do evaluate then it 's to say it 's not working but it 's not our fault , there could n't possibly be anything wrong with our thinking on this subject or this issue . |
| 29 | I 'm working but it 's half past twelve in n it ? |