Example sentences of "[adj] but [pron] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I ca n't and can I tell you , I 'm not being funny but I think that 's actually maybe quite important , I know this is not the in doubt visually impaired people but |
| 2 | different but you see that one 's , you know what I 'm like with Domestos and |
| 3 | and I do n't , do n't know whether the forms were , I do n't think they were quite as complicated as , as these but I found that |
| 4 | Erm I found the , the greeting and the appropriate sociability to start with very hesitant but I think that was most probably just nerves on your part Robert , I do n't think it was something that you would usually have a problem with . |
| 5 | No erm but I 'm sorry but whoever did that needs a fucking good kick in the head you know . |
| 6 | Now I 'm not entirely positive if I 'm right but I think that would be easier to do because you could then alter that round to and then you 'd have your three X as a separate thing . |
| 7 | Not only that but we expect that reward to be a fair and just one . |
| 8 | I was gon na go for that but I thought that was too bloody obvious |
| 9 | I worked at City Motors and I stayed there for seven years I had quite a few jobs before that but I liked that one . |
| 10 | That 's the next step we st we may need to treat your tummy with something else after that but I think that 's rather go going to depend on what the chest X-ray shows , and how you feel . |
| 11 | I w I would n't swear on that but I think that 's what happened . |
| 12 | I do n't understand that but it says that down on my script here , from morning show astrologer Peter . |
| 13 | And er she says Jean I swear to God she says if she comes over near my door , I 've told Jim she says , I , I 'm ready for her I 'll beat her round that square and she said I 'm not like that but she says that 's just the way she says , and she hurt my kids when I sent them Easter eggs over , doing that she says , that really galled me , she says cos they were hurting my kids rather than me . |
| 14 | Yeah well he says , he says I rea I would n't have thought that but he said that 's not really his style , that 's not really like Sal to do that . |
| 15 | Er the things that she said were that women used more hedges , such as I think er hedges are sort of things that get put into the conversation if al allegedly if somebody wants to give the impression that they 're not quite sure , and they would n't w You know like I would n't want to say it for sure but I think that . |
| 16 | Britain incidentally had two thousand times as , as many but I mean that 's the sort of contrast which perhaps you would expect . |
| 17 | Rory Scott says roguishly : ‘ She was very sexually attractive and the relationship was not a platonic one as far as I was concerned but it remained that way . |
| 18 | This might seem onerous but it guarantees that configuration control is maintained and , with some care , should be a very unusual occurrence . |
| 19 | It is unlikely but I mean that |
| 20 | Er I almost said su sublime to the ridiculous but I thought that might be misinterpreted . |
| 21 | Oh I think er starting fr it 's harder work starting Well it 's hard work anyway th I mean sometimes er a a job that 's been polished before , it 's patchy but I mean that 's really all stripped down to You know what I mean , it 's it 's a It 's that 's all stripped down |
| 22 | He wanted to hit a 4-iron but I thought that would never get to the hole . |