Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb base] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It certainly would n't be against the ideological er ideas of the Party but I mean that it was an ideological , it was more practical cos it was , it was related the purification campaign of the Party , cos we know they 're having these campaigns |
| 2 | I 'm , I 'm certainly as I was going to come on to explain and the way you will see ourselves working , is not people who sit in the Town Hall and just turn out reports , I mean the kind of work we do and the way we work means that were actually very much involved in the community groups , but I mean if it was , if it was thought to be an issue that we needed to have greater community involvement , i.e. to resurrecting that forum then that 's something that , you know , we may need to address , but I never saw it as operating like that anyway , I mean I saw it as it 's almost like in a cabinet of members mainly . . |
| 3 | but I mean if it 's not yet that 's fine . |
| 4 | I think it 's said it , if there 's anything on pertaining to the County Council , like highway matters , then it could be useful , but I mean if it just , there 's no point in him sitting here to discuss planning applications , because that enquiry 's |
| 5 | Yeah , but I mean if it , if it erm if it means that that it might spoil your entry into it , it 's such a sa small thing is n't it ? |
| 6 | but I mean if it was sort of about s s five yards , it would n't be five yards by three yards . |
| 7 | It just says it 's aqueous but but I mean when it when it when it happens |
| 8 | I I thought you might in fact but I mean when it was first taken we first looked at the tape , people in there were n't sure so Oh that 's good news oh that helps a lot because they 've tried The original Moneytalk was developed on VAX V M S |
| 9 | You know but I mean when it comes to a screw and your , I mean we 're talking about coming like this to undo the screw . |
| 10 | Which actually is something I was thinking about doing with year seven but I mean as it 's it 's it 's |
| 11 | All this may seem a little behind the times to the modern generation and to feminists , but I recognize that it was the way of my mother 's and father 's world . |
| 12 | They 're just pure-intellect machines , as well all know , but I swear that it 's not out of humanizing sentiment that we give them female names and pronouns . |
| 13 | That part of the Bill has been strongly opposed by the Ramblers Association , but I imagine that it will be welcomed by railway locomotive drivers who , for example , face more than 100 such crossings whenever they drive from King 's Cross to Newcastle . |
| 14 | I do n't know what it was about , but I know that it shocked me into the sort of terror that I did n't know I was capable of . |
| 15 | But I know that it 's wrong . |
| 16 | I 'd say I 'd marry you tomorrow , but I know that it would be an insult , now you know the kind of worm I am . ’ |
| 17 | There is no way that we can change those without the agreement of all the other members of the community er but I know that it 's something that er my colleagues at the foreign office are extremely concerned with . |
| 18 | But I submit that it might be wise to look for an interpretation of quantum mechanics which comes as near as possible to being in accord with the attitude so widespread among its users . |
| 19 | ‘ The notebook had already gone back with another Kazakh climber who had returned early , but I gather that it was written in English . |
| 20 | I hope that the House will reject the Bill , but I fear that it will not . |
| 21 | This one is well researched , but I question whether it adds much to the sum total of our knowledge about Wellington . |
| 22 | His views are taken to task by Lancelot , the hero of Kingsley 's Yeast ( 1848 ) : ‘ It may suit the Mr Lyles of this age … to make the people constantly and visibly comprehend that property is their protector and their friend , but I question whether it will suit the people themselves , unless they can make property understand that it owes them something more definite than protection . ’ |
| 23 | This may prove to be the most expensive contest staged in Britain , but I doubt whether it really will be the biggest since the war . |
| 24 | But I doubt that it is irrelevant to it . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's welcome news , of course , but I doubt that it will remove all the very real concerns that abound in the community . |
| 26 | This may be true , but I doubt if it is , just so long as the words are right . |
| 27 | ‘ The world might applaud your achievement but I doubt if it will condone your methods , ’ Nicholson said , taking his eyes from the bandaged man to look momentarily at Dexter . |
| 28 | I gave it a shot , but I doubt if it worked . ’ |
| 29 | But I suppose that it could happen if one of them became faulty . |
| 30 | I think that Saddam Hussein is much less potent than he was , but I accept that it is a brutal regime and that it poses a threat to world peace . |