Example sentences of "[adj] but [pers pn] do not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just presenting the final sum is quite interesting but it does n't really help you get a feel for how well the investment has worked for you . |
| 2 | Erm er well everyone gets there for half six but it does n't exactly start till seven . |
| 3 | People took them in for them other people what was sick but we did n't never have no dosh . ’ |
| 4 | Well if it was me to keep it balanced I usually put the bigger ones near the bottom or on one side so that the small bit are at the top and the big bits are at the bottom and artistically it looks a bit better balanced but it does n't really matter for the maths where you put it . |
| 5 | The life of the anchoress was hard but she did not necessarily give herself over to excessive penance . |
| 6 | Er but what I become , I thought you might become more confrontational but you did n't so so you dug a hole for yourself that you could 've dug out of you sat in there but I think you handled that quite well , but there are people like me out there who think they know it all and will have a go at you . |
| 7 | About Hattie , she was n't in the concert cos she supposed to be ill but she did n't even come to watch and her parents came to watch her . |
| 8 | ‘ The executive directors at NatWest were tremendously supportive but we did n't necessarily need support , we needed experienced guidance . |
| 9 | He says it 's awful but they do n't yet know the full facts . |
| 10 | I actually I I intend to believe you actually have been sent by the Jehovah 's Witness to defend the indefensible , it 's a kind of like a and I I y'know , I 'm I 'm sorry but I do n't really think this actually deserves that . |
| 11 | It 's probably right but it does n't actually count in that calculation it 's something quite separate . |
| 12 | I understand your concern an and were that the case show your reluctance to go with the the amendment but there is no such implication that the three point six five one million er er thereby becomes committed in any sense and the big this is an additional provision which may lead er may gone up to er over and above that but it does n't actually admit it to that . |
| 13 | My neighbours are friendly but I do n't really know anybody intimately . |
| 14 | I had initially met a lot of people who were gay but I did n't really identify with them and sort of felt , ‘ Yes , but is this it ? ’ |
| 15 | Wonderful but it does n't actually mean anything . |
| 16 | Yes , she is , she 's very nice but you do n't actually want to , if you 're on the , the touchline you do n't want to stand next to her . |
| 17 | There was an offer in the letter if my memory 's correct but it did n't actually specify what their offer was and really I think what the Council want to do is exactly what they are offering because we have to be minded all the time that the that er applicant does not own all the land and , and certainly it is , is , is the wish I think of this Council , I believe unanimously , and , and I think a lot of the residents , that we do somehow acquire a pedestrian link . |
| 18 | I mean if somebody says I used to People finding grating people might say , Oh I find it grating but it does n't really mean anything does it ? |