Example sentences of "[vb base] but [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can write down what you like and people can read it any way they want but unless you 've got no job , no money and nowhere decent to live then you do n't know what it 's like to be out of work . |
| 2 | You can have a Snack if you want but if you do you wo n't have one for school tomorrow . |
| 3 | It 's alright for you to lie to us as many times as you want but when we 'd asked you once you get in a mood and walk off and do n't talk to us . |
| 4 | I , when , when we go down to playschool I walk but because it takes what fifteen minutes to walk into town I put him in the pushchair |
| 5 | I think erm I think is quite fair maybe if concessions could be raised to one fifty or two pounds but overall I think that people who can afford it spend such a lot of money on the raffle and we therefore give raffle tickets to those who can afford it could jealousy and on the raffle generally about a hundred pounds is made and if there , if there was more charge for tickets , people might not give so much for the raffles and also if you give but if you charge them a nominal sum and then shove other things at them on their options they might be more willing to give to optional choices like a raffle . |
| 6 | And the reason it likes you is not because of the bucket of wild oats you bring but because it thinks you are a horse too . |
| 7 | You say words like that and everyone knows what they mean but when you look at them you ca n't understand them . |
| 8 | Yeah I mean but if you take that to the manager . |
| 9 | Yeah yeah yeah and you know what until I get started takes long for me and then I usually can get going you know but until I keep going or sometimes somebody and I say that 's it ! |
| 10 | Er she 's always and jigging about you know but when she plays very still and she hits the ball stands up quick , watches where it goes , she 'll go like this , this up jump |
| 11 | Yes I know but when you come to put a another one on you 've got ta lift them all out . |
| 12 | I know but if we print bilingual ones |
| 13 | Yeah I know but if everyone went out if you 're allowed |
| 14 | Yeah I know but if you look |
| 15 | Well yeah I know but if I do people |
| 16 | Yeah I know but if I have , say if I have six lines |
| 17 | I know but as I said they have you by the short and curlies . |
| 18 | You feel But when you got it on right , you feel sort of like , mm mm mm , mm mm mm mm ! |
| 19 | What is most damaging to Christianity is not that Christians doubt but that there seems to be so little open discussion and understanding of doubt . |
| 20 | If you 've got a guy gathered , I 'm not saying try but if you got somebody who , who did the job and gathered it in like they would do . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , because of Steve … not because I love him as you think but because I care about him and … caring is just as emotive as loving . |
| 22 | Er the Director of Transportation recognises that , it was said that he 's happy to await the outcome of liberations by that er District Council and that 's what the Conservative group has suggested that we do but if he wants you to recognise that every policy has to be accepted , the way in which they have performed time and decided to be addressed by my members of of all parties and therefore I urge you to support the Conservative resolutions I now put forward . |
| 23 | Because you 're seen in public and you do sing in public , there 's a lot of people that sing but as you say it 's sometimes just in their own homes or they used to but they would never sing in public , they used to sing in the choir . |
| 24 | The pebble beach is dirtier than they realize but when they stand up from it clinging shell-dust and subversive oil-slicks and persistent grime will fall away from their white robes , leaving them untouched , pristine , still-saintly . |