Example sentences of "[art] [noun] but i [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never did like drag shows and I did n't want to spend the evening in the pub but I did it just to be with gay people . |
| 2 | ‘ I had considered going to California over the winter but I realised it was n't necessary . |
| 3 | ‘ It was second nature to look at the linesman but I knew I was on . ’ |
| 4 | Mum and Dad and Mr and Mrs Lewis entered into the spirit of the occasion but I thought I could see some sadness in Mrs Lewis 's eyes . |
| 5 | It was holding on to the tree but I pulled it off . |
| 6 | ‘ It was tough at the start but I knew I had to hang on to my serve at all costs , ’ she said afterwards . |
| 7 | I wanted to go , go to the library but I thought I 'd start in my room so |
| 8 | I slipped my reins to the end of the buckle but I thought we had gone . |
| 9 | ‘ I did not expect the humour but I liked it , ’ said Alma Cox , of Leeds . |
| 10 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 11 | was going to say check it in the book but I gave you wrong one . |
| 12 | I had an actor once who was condemned to hang for stealing a sheep — or a lamb , I forget which — so I got permission to have him hanged in the middle of a play — had to change the plot a bit but I thought it would be effective , you know — and you would n't believe it , he just was n't convincing ! |
| 13 | All he could tell me was that the team had no sponsor but I felt he was trying to put something together . |
| 14 | I came to England when I was 9 , that would have been in 1961 , and that 's when I saw the world for what it 's all about , I was still a child but I saw it , the black and white thing , it was a reality . |
| 15 | ‘ I intended a salad but I thought you might have missed out on lunch so we 've got grilled lamb chops with minted potatoes and glazed carrots . ’ |
| 16 | and then other , like this morning I woke up about quarter to seven , well I 'd been awake a while but I thought I 'd came to at quarter to seven I went down and make some tea and having breakfast |
| 17 | The one at the top is the basic tree , the one on the left is one of " my " insects , and the one on the right has no name but I thought it looked pretty . |
| 18 | I am not a scholar but I saw it was personally annotated by your king . |
| 19 | I was thinking of doing a teddy but I thought I wanted sort of one , two or three things do n't you on the bottom ? |
| 20 | I do n't want to sound a snob but I thought it vulgar . |
| 21 | I have n't , I have n't got a clue but I knew it the minute the second you said it I knew it . |
| 22 | I 'm supposed to be calling a solicitor but I thought it was only fair I should warn you instead . ’ |
| 23 | Well this is an exception but I knew it would be higher because we 've had the heating on so often . |