Example sentences of "this 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
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