Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ooh well they used to well they did n't used to sing a lot of songs but er they used to do a lot of you know playing about and perhaps and then they 'd perhaps have a ball . |
| 2 | Get granddad did have a look at his ears but erm he just had to dropped it erm |
| 3 | Probably were n't I do n't know but they seemed to us I may be looking at it from a child 's eyes but er that 's how they seemed to be to me . |
| 4 | Unless she says she going to so to go over and spend a weekend now and again with her kids but er that sounds right . |
| 5 | 2 inches from the girth round my tum , nothing from my legs but ΒΌ inch off each arm . |
| 6 | Well that 's it cos I 'd , I mean I had the accident , well I mean I , I did n't hurt myself and I was very lucky I did n't hit the cars but erm it was bad enough with er and I ended up on this big grass embankment at the end of the bypass . |
| 7 | Erm well what 's come out you see , you did finish early and there are a lot of , if you like , no , they were n't red herrings but laissez needed a bit further probing like on the income , thirty five thousand , yeah , but is there anything else , well yeah there 's the car , there 's the all of those are pensionable . |
| 8 | Loads of speakers but er The nine three eight four , which one 's that ? |
| 9 | When a new plane came in and they assigned it to our crew , it being the principle crew and we got to name it and we named our plane Skyscraper , I do have some later pictures but er it taken in front of the plane of the crew that I was flying with at that time and the ground crew in front of Skyscraper . |
| 10 | Well it 's either three or six months but er it 's , it 's similar to what we have but I know she took her own little policy out . |
| 11 | I in fact , half the rubber you , cos yo unless you order them and buy them like we used to buy them in some big packets but erm , you buy them in a shop , you buy them and they 've got teatles right across the middle have n't they ? |
| 12 | The outside was of course was facing bricks but er |
| 13 | Er I do n't know how many of you made wills but er draw him out on other things if you 've got any problems I mean we we had quite an interesting session at one of the power station talks on a er tenant er tenancy agreement that a chap had been bothered about for some years . |
| 14 | Erm I do n't know that 's , this is not in any official stats books but it 's just my experience with students ' projects that if you get more than , there 's a sort of critical mass of about , about forty respondents and then you 're much more likely to start showing some interesting statistically significant findings for some reason , erm I do n't quite know why but er it 's one of life 's little mysteries but er so that 's usually if there 's a lot of numerical data what I 'd try and advise people to er to get . |
| 15 | Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive |
| 16 | A combination of I would think of about twelve passes but tha they switched the play from side to side |
| 17 | Well I think it 's absolutely necessary to do this in supermarkets but erm you know that maybe fair trading in our country supermarkets erm are not the only way to shop . |
| 18 | we use the same words we use them in different in the different area accents but i that 's all it is . |
| 19 | He 's gone part of the way along the r road by doing what you 've just been describing non-executive directors but erm it could be a weakness if he 's seen as a er erm a business man and cavalier as opposed to somebody who fits in with the style that the city 's always looking for . |
| 20 | celebrities , erm if it 's , you know , individuals at work erm you know er perhaps it 's appropriate to use pseudonyms but erm you know with celebrities I mean people do projects about , you know , kind of soap stars and things like that and say |
| 21 | And it ripped about a quarter of the roof off before it finished and the slates but er still good . |
| 22 | which we need to be and once we get into the rhythm I 'm sure it 'll all be a lot easier but you seem to have a calmness about your how you speak which is good and you know I 'm sure I 'll go to pieces but erm yeah it was just , and what I 've picked up on as you say where it 's er how did you come to Friends Provident bum de bum de bum , we 're going through erm a structured erm spiel if you like and then they 're saying well I do n't really wan na give you any you know , recommendations at this moment and erm what we should do there is , is I suppose apack that is n't it ? |
| 23 | Yeah , mate , I 've just got in myself change stations but er Richard 's just talking about some kid who died from meningitis but it does n't mean a lot these days does it ? |
| 24 | I do n't suppose the unions would put up with it these days but er ha there were n't such things as unions for nurses in those days . |
| 25 | it 's quite , quite , quite , quite rare I have a spare moment these days but er yeah please do er give us a knock when you 've finished here . |
| 26 | Well that was kept by fella called and they could get the beer off-licence , although it was n't , it was n't so far to the Old Naked Inn and then there was a pub on the corner of , I ca n't remember the name of that because they 've opened it too young to remember pubs in them days but er , apart from the off-licence there was no actual public inn on Street , there was off-licence , as I say just a few yards down was the Old Naked Inn and there was a pub on the top of just on the side of . |
| 27 | Er what would you be able to manage on , sort of thing and I said about two hundred and fifty a year and er , you know , that was quite realistic in those days but erm obviously it would n't go very far now , would it ? |
| 28 | but most days but erm and the bar 's right across the door and last week when I went out they still had er er one or two bits of Christmas stuff in the one window and some balls of er in there . |
| 29 | Erm it is this weeks but erm I wo n't be calling in . |
| 30 | And er you could even stroke his dogs but er the er I do n't know how it is , he said , but they never say no to you . |