Example sentences of "[adj] but [conj] [pron] [verb] " 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 | I do n't want to be picky about this but but I mean they are government based . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ We have contingency plans for a major incident like this but when it happens it is very difficult to cope . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | You could understand the connection made between hair and being manly but when you came to think of it , it was n't really true . |
| 10 | That 's understandable and to some extent justifiable but if it creates the impression in anyone 's mind that the U S has a presidential system of government er then they would be sadly mistaken . |
| 11 | and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea . |
| 12 | Well I think as an early potato Stefan , I would chose from Rocket for the earliest , I would grow I think for as well as that I would go for Foremost but if you want a real waxy potato it would still be Arran Pilot cos now whenever you eat it it got a strong taste , whether it 's young or whether it 's old . |
| 13 | Are quite high but when you come down then you same size . |
| 14 | If you knew your twelve times or your two times up to twelve that would be quicker but if you do n't |
| 15 | Our language can never be entirely value free but when you speak or write you need to think carefully of the effect it is having on others . |
| 16 | Dogs , like men , can look very different but when it comes to sex they all know that they are members of one species and they are not culturally inhibited from taking appropriate action . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I mentioned earlier that a particular meaning might be made accessible but that it does not necessarily follow that it will be acceptable . |
| 20 | Well I know the the when we had the er I T V , you know , over Christmas it said in there it was on Central but when I turned it on it was n't at all . |
| 21 | I do n't make it blatant but when he makes that deal at the end of the film you know what he 's doing . |
| 22 | For some reason , Belgion had resented this observation , not because he thought it untrue but because he claimed to have said it first . |
| 23 | Actually , actually I like to you do n't say much but when you say it it 's nothing . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I 've learnt a lot of things — how to bath a baby , feed a baby , it sounds dead simple but when you get that baby in your hands you 're shaking . |
| 26 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 27 | normally after + very heavy rain + or something like that + and + you 're driving along the road + and + far away + you see + well + er + a series + of + stripes + + formed like a bow + an arch + + very very far away + ah + seven colours but + + I guess you hardly ever see seven it 's just a + a series of + colours which + they seem to be separate but if you try to look for the separate ( kAz ) — colours they always seem + very hard + to separate + if you see what I mean ++ ( Postgraduate student speaking informally ) |
| 28 | I mean it 's not gon na be , it 's not gon na be easy but if we start developing it erm there 's no reason |
| 29 | Erm Only trouble , there 's a snare drum you can turn it onto snare or ordinary but when you have it on snare , if you play or anything it rattles ! |
| 30 | I felt so sad but if I had gone there and seen her , how would I have felt ? |