Example sentences of "but you [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you enjoyed the noodles . |
| 2 | Yes but you put the water in . |
| 3 | This is a modern health services research unit but you hold an antiquated view of science . |
| 4 | You find a breadknife but you keep the umbrella too . |
| 5 | ‘ But you keep the odd hack ? ’ |
| 6 | But you left the theatre three months ago , Lee . |
| 7 | But you ignore the power struggles between ethnic groups — and the widespread practice of nepotism — which have soured democracy in the past . |
| 8 | No but you evaluate the return |
| 9 | If the though sounds tempting but you fear the pounds will pile on , think again . |
| 10 | ‘ But you kept a good personal relationship with Livesey ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Well , okay , but you expanded a lot . |
| 12 | And world market prices also tend to fall because these erm sort of protectionist programmes are often too successful , so not only do we reach self sufficiency , but you reach the status of net exporter . |
| 13 | " But you know a little ? " he persisted . |
| 14 | Well all the way from , they used to come from and they used to have some sunbonnets on , I always remember they used to have the , I 'm not a dressmaker but you know a la they do n't like frills down the back that used to hang down the back and the I remember them coming round selling blocks of salt . |
| 15 | Michael Aspel was the one in er charge of it but you know a lot of the old people er and the old erm tt Muffin the Mule and the Fl |
| 16 | One of the difficulties that results from these cuts and that tax has been that there had been so numerous that it ca n't keep count of how many times they 'd changed the goal posts , how many times they imposed cuts , but you know a lot of the government 's ideas are that it 's money , money , money , but it 's not all financial , it 's been physical and mental . |
| 17 | But you know the old saying , there 's always a first time for everything . ’ |
| 18 | But you know the rest — this is just a tribute to three lovely unselfish children , and it may bring back some lovely memories , as it does to Pop and myself . |
| 19 | At a matter of fact , it 's rather interesting that because somebody actually had a go at Peter about this , he 's a B B C er and we er , we should n't enter into politics about this , but you know the background of Peter . |
| 20 | " Difficult to describe , old chap … but you know the … er … bottom aperture … there 's a bloody great long red thing hanging from it . " |
| 21 | ‘ But you know the man as well as I , ’ Mrs Bostock protested . |
| 22 | I can piece some of it together , but you know the rest . |
| 23 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 24 | which I suppose it might be difficult to see what had to be arranged for that with you there 's a regularity , but you know the Trone is obviously a |
| 25 | But you know the the |
| 26 | It 's with an apostrophe is an abbreviation for it is , because you never , and I I think those three little rules there only apply only nouns have an apostrophe , pronouns never have an apostrophe and it 's only nouns ending in s , have an apostrophe and it 's only when they own the thing that follows , except when they , when they do n't end with an s , but you know the exception of men 's , women 's , children 's and sheep . |
| 27 | Nine months or a year 's time we may have a different animal working in that office and it may well be some person who has who does some J L O work to supplement John and does some project work , now er Jackie has indicated she 'd love to fill that role , and we all know what project she 'd want to be doing it , but er if we do put somebody in that role they will be project officer as well and on the wall will be a year planner and it 'll have things like crucial crew gala day and all these major major things and that particular officer will work quite closely with the new Pat and they 'll be able to take some of the weight off our shoulders so when we start planning for something like crucial crew you can delegate some of the work to the project officer and perhaps the other sergeant Now I know things do n't always work out quite that straightforwardly but you know the last year has been a bastard of a year for us in terms of sickness , four S L O's have been on long-term sick we 've lost Pat for all that time Jed was off for quite a while |
| 28 | but you know the breaking up day for the summer holidays and Christmas |
| 29 | But you know the Labour Party is worse than the Conservatives for traditions are n't they ? |
| 30 | And even in quite a wide area not perhaps the garden croquet players you would n't know about the people who play in the back garden but you know the people who play in tournaments . |