Example sentences of "but i [verb] [verb] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I keep imagining this morning that I have — please believe me , Milena , because when we 're married you will have to put up with a lot of this , but I keep imagining that I have lots of little crisp sepia legs . ’ |
| 2 | I did not want to come to this council , but I came hoping that we could save blood . |
| 3 | ‘ But I came to realise that it 's all very well gambolling about the countryside feeling at one with nature , but people do n't change completely . |
| 4 | I thought Eng v SM was 16th & Pol vs Hol 17th but I 've heard that they 've been rescheduled so that they are played at the same time . |
| 5 | But I 've decided that I 'll only be in the band as long as I 'm doing other things as well as . |
| 6 | But I had decided that I was n't going to wear the arrow suit for Truro Daine . |
| 7 | But I had to recognise that there have only been a couple of traumas in ten years and the trouble rate is likely to hot up as I move towards 40 . |
| 8 | In the past two weeks he has had to scrummage against Scotland 's World Cup looseheads , David Sole and David Milne : ‘ They certainly got the better of me but I like to think that I am learning all the time and that that will lead to my improvement ’ . |
| 9 | But I like to think that I have kept them up to date . |
| 10 | It is not inconceivable that other organisations would become relevant in the future if I fell ill , but I like to assume that I am not going to fall seriously ill . |
| 11 | Maybe I was just a provincial or something , but I began to see that I was among the strangest audience I 'd seen in that place . |
| 12 | I knew I was being unreasonable , but I began to feel that my marriage lacked something , a fundamental excitement . |
| 13 | ‘ It was after that weekend gig in Zimbabwe — but I seem to remember that you took two weeks ’ leave immediately after that , so perhaps you never knew . |
| 14 | Aung San and his supporters were demanding full independence , but I happened to know that they would have been content , possibly even pleased , to be granted Dominion status . |
| 15 | Unfortunately it was received too late to go through the formal council procedure , but I do hope that you allow me to hand it to the council secretary later who it is addressed to . |
| 16 | There is obviously an ambitious streak in me but I do realise that I am still very young and inexperienced . |
| 17 | My canoeing skills , newly acquired , were not tested in Canadians , helmed by a guide , and I am disappointed but as I did n't acquire my elementary skills until I was a 61 year old female I 'm not complaining but I do complain that I 'm quite unable to find a suitable canoe companion now I 'm on my own . |
| 18 | But I do think that we are becoming more involved in the Livesey affair than our legitimate interest justifies . |
| 19 | Erm , having been told that the County Council were running the meeting , I did find it a little difficult to chair , but I do think that we 've come out of it with some constructive ideas . |
| 20 | Clearly , I do n't want to see us having just an open ended thing , that every time they get into trouble , we bail them out , but I do think that we need to give breathing space now , until we can come with a , a , a decent set of proposals for the future of the building . |
| 21 | Thank you Chairman , I I can note that remark , but I do think that we do have to defend the position a little on environmental issues . |
| 22 | I mean , I do think we need to er recognise that tremendous efforts are being put in by the individuals employed by the D S Os , but I do think that we need to recognise also , that there is a lot lacking in the , particularly the marketing of the services . |
| 23 | But I do think that we need to recognise this on council that there is a cost associated with that one point four million pounds worth of savings and those costs come in two different directions . |
| 24 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |
| 25 | But I do think that what he 's doing is something truly wonderful — and quite different . |
| 26 | ‘ But I do think that someone of authority should go into the forest and approach the Tree Spirits . ’ |
| 27 | Now , I do not seek to defend the conduct of the Sun , but I do think that it is at best messy and may also be dangerous to use the common law to outflank the Act . |
| 28 | I do not take this view , but I do think that there are certain deep assumptions about how the mind-body problem should be addressed which increase its difficulty . |
| 29 | I welcome the initiative that have already been started within the County and I shall be going to look at the site which is being offered to us , er but I do feel that we should be progressing these matters as soon as possible . |
| 30 | I am in no way decrying such methods — perhaps they work and perhaps they do not — but I do feel that they are open to considerable abuse . |