Example sentences of "the [noun] but i [vb past] [pron] " 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 | I was trembling so much I kept dropping the soap but I did what she said . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was holding on to the tree but I pulled it off . |
| 7 | ‘ It was tough at the start but I knew I had to hang on to my serve at all costs , ’ she said afterwards . |
| 8 | I wanted to go , go to the library but I thought I 'd start in my room so |
| 9 | I slipped my reins to the end of the buckle but I thought we had gone . |
| 10 | ‘ I did not expect the humour but I liked it , ’ said Alma Cox , of Leeds . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | was going to say check it in the book but I gave you wrong one . |