Example sentences of "but [vb base] [pers pn] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But let me just tell you this ; self-pity will destroy you far more assuredly then Ryan could ever have done . ’ |
| 2 | But let me just tell you we it 's all counted , it 's all written down . |
| 3 | Erm in fact a similar effect happens , I 'll be mentioning this in the lecture but let me just mention it now . |
| 4 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 5 | Well you 've made this study and you 've written a book , Policies for Educational Accountability I think it 's called , which is just recently come out , and I 'm sure that will be a , a very worthwhile contribution , but let me just ask you a personal questions . |
| 6 | Er I will I will hand over but let me just say this that my instinct is that it a policy expressed in the way you 've you 've suggested is just superfluous because all you 're doing is describing in in a po in upper case letters , the situation as it is and that that my answer is that it would that there would be no need for such a it would be gratuitously ap it 's an unnecessary statement . |
| 7 | Forgive me I do n't want to go back that far , but , but let me just put the point you 've made to Professor Hoskins . |
| 8 | But let me just deal with labour and plant at the minute and we 'll see , we can do a similar thing . |
| 9 | If you read this end to end Ron I 'd be very grateful but let me just point out to you we 've agreed twenty eighth , if you bring it forward great . |
| 10 | Let me just , le I 'm not really a , I 'm not really a very numerate political scientist but let me just run some numbers by you to give you an idea of the escalation of the change . |
| 11 | It was a green scarf but let me quickly say that it was bereft of religious significance . |
| 12 | But let us also remember that the opposition have an obligation to stay behind the off-side line . |
| 13 | But let us also remember that Baron Cuvier , perhaps the greatest protagonist of catastrophism in its earlier form , worked on the placid , untectonised sediments of Montmartre and the environs of Paris . |
| 14 | But let us now alter the lexis somewhat and consider the following three words in association : |
| 15 | But let us now look at what the early church fathers made of this mythology . |
| 16 | I have used the word ‘ mystery ’ of the cross , but let us never forget that suffering is a mystery too . |
| 17 | Trim off icing around the base , but let it still cover the drum slightly . |
| 18 | But do they also sound identifiably black ? |
| 19 | But do they actually want to get bigger ? |
| 20 | Courses in the humanities may encourage a personal response from the students , but do they always open up a full range of rival positions ? |
| 21 | But do they really cauterize the wounds of historical separation and loss ? |
| 22 | Because information technology is new and exciting , its proponents naturally exaggerate the cultural role it will take But do they really believe that we shall have nothing better to do in the future than to sit in front of a screen for hours , plugging into Which ? , mail-order catalogues , and the index to Chemical Abstracts ? |
| 23 | Pupils will quickly learn to say the ‘ right ’ words back to you , but do they really appreciate their real meaning ? |
| 24 | It may be that the amp sounds okay but do they really need an LED for goodness sake ? |
| 25 | This is something that the British harp on that incessantly , using it as the main reason for choosing one restaurant over another , but do we really understand what it means and are we consistent in our assessment of perceived value ? |
| 26 | But do we really know enough about the whys and wherefores of racism ? |
| 27 | We might get a good ideas of the shape of the man we are promoting but do we really know the " shape " of the job he is going into ? |
| 28 | But do we really know any more about the animal kingdom now than Pliny thought he knew then ? |
| 29 | Certainly these sleek , feather-light , multi-coloured wonders have an appeal , but do we really need them ? |
| 30 | The Department of Transport spends ninety per cent of its budget on raods , but do we really NEED more of them ? |