Example sentences of "but [pers pn] be [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not a full man , and nothing can ever alter that ; but I am me , and I regard that as compensation enough . |
| 2 | But I am yours now , are n't I ? |
| 3 | But I am you know — I am alien , other , under this façade . |
| 4 | Well I was very reluctant to put in for this job , I did n't want to really , but I was you know people said , Put in for it , you wo n't get it if you put in . |
| 5 | Well I was going to but I was I was hoping to get some news on er summer cruise cos I 'm gon na do a whole sales department down in swops and changes first |
| 6 | But I were I were upset about that , you know . |
| 7 | One of their products was erm you , when you see in the cars th th that they can er make them open top and they close the backs down , there 's a bracket on the side that er hinges up and well they used to special you know , it had come from the landaus of the horse drawn vehicle , the same sort of thing , well they used to specialize in that and they used to make some kind of locks but I 'm I have never talked to anybody that worked there so I , I do n't know , but that 's the only other one as I , as I 'm aware of er was the , was Wilks 's and er Bloxwich Lock . |
| 8 | But I 'm I 'm not here to teach you how to do the pitch . |
| 9 | But I 'm I I I 'm not sure what relevance it is , I mean is this some procedure that it 's got to be reduced into writing ? |
| 10 | Now the first disappointment in that respect was the appointment Now I may be wrong but I 'm I 'm I 'm s I think I 'm right here the appointment of the chairman of the railway executive , that 's what it was first called . |
| 11 | Erm , going to somehow , at the moment we 're thinking of well Jean 'll wan na do it , but I 'm I 'm thinking of doing some kind of I mean , we 're agreed on what we 're gon na do , but it 's how we do it , I want some ka er , some kind of grilling around the top , the cocktail bar area , so you can open it as a , as a bar , and it 'll have a sort of atmosphere in itself , so we open that as a pub type of thing , you know . |
| 12 | Yes , but I 'm I think I 'm gon na go drama class . |
| 13 | But I 'm you know that that could go this afternoon when I go to a couple of other appointments . |
| 14 | Well and we 've used it for Well answer is yes but I 'm you know , it 's making sure you get the business . |
| 15 | just say you do n't know her name but you 're it 's a woman . |
| 16 | Ah but she 's she 's she is |
| 17 | But she 's she 's still well I think she 'd daft . |
| 18 | But she 's she 's she does n't want it she did n't want the jewels did she but when she nearly had them . |
| 19 | Mu mu my mum says that I 've got to show all receipts at the end of the year and if I have n't got any then she wants it all back , but she 's she can piss off as far that 's concerned ! |
| 20 | No , but she 's she 'd , we told her er |
| 21 | Yeah but she 's she 's like that . |
| 22 | But no , she 's gone for this promotion in work and er even though she does n't think she 's much chance of getting it because there 's two permanent lads there that really you know would be next in line rather than her sort of thing but she 's you know , she feels she 's done her bit and that , you know , it 's worth going for and like I said to her you might as well ! |
| 23 | something like that , but she 's you know , dead against she did n't like funerals anyway . |
| 24 | But she is mine . |
| 25 | But she was I think she was secretary and Cissy Miller of Hunton was treasurer . |
| 26 | and although things may not be brilliant for , in the workplace at the moment , but we 're we 're making a move , we 're getting a , a foot in there . |
| 27 | But we 're we 're that 's the most prestigious subsidiary of British Rail that 's what |
| 28 | We say yeah but we 're we 're doing it in three stages . |
| 29 | and I 'm the mail-out coordinator we 've we 've so far mailed out all but one of the of the new magazines and er we did n't do the last one but we 're we 're scheduling up for doing this one . |
| 30 | So but we 're we 're very easy with things , we do n't erm we do n't jump up and down and get cross erm so long as we can get some . |