Example sentences of "[unc] but [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Er but we can make a reasonable margin including spacers .
2 Er but you can see the er the the engine shed as it was .
3 A lot in it er but you can learn a lot from it and eventually you 'll be able to do any sort of these pie charts , if somebody says well you 've got four pound eighty to spend , and somebody spends three quarters on this and a tenths on that , two fifteenths on something else and you can add them all up and do a nice chart .
4 of the , the national average and it 's not because erm they 're paying high wages to get the , the most able people , it 's because there are mechanisms , institutional mechanisms that keep wages high , there 's no market in the jobs for , th these are generalizations but I think they are fairly , fairly true erm becau there is no market for er for the jobs , for civil service jobs that appointments are made and it is much more important who you know than , than what , what you know and the old boy network , as it 's called , in this country is fairly important in the English Civil Service but a similar sort of network tends to be far more important in developing countries , something that is euphemistically called patronage erm but we might call the old boy network or er er jobs for the boys whatever , but erm
5 Erm but we 'll do the questions together as a class and I would like you to just speak one at a time , otherwise it will all get blurry .
6 Erm but it would affect the people you deal with .
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