Example sentences of "but i [verb] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never said anything , but I knew that he knew , because he was nicer to me than he had ever been before . |
| 2 | But I knew that you wanted me to talk to you whether you wanted me to or not ! |
| 3 | I could not possibly do justice in this speech to all that has been written on the subject , but I hope that I have profited from the many articles which I have read since the hearing . |
| 4 | The title of this article may suggest that I am claiming that all girls are marginalised in mathematics , but I hope that I have indicated that the situation we actually see is far more complicated than this . |
| 5 | The lianas climbed everywhere and made the forest difficult to penetrate , but I remember that I loved this forest . |
| 6 | ‘ But I realised that I had spoken too soon , ’ he continued . |
| 7 | I made it clear that I wanted our discussion that morning to focus on business matters , but I realised that she had a need to talk to someone , preferably someone discreet . |
| 8 | ‘ Neither am I , querida , ’ he said slowly , ‘ but I wish that I 'd had those skills in Seville because it would have saved a lot of anguish . |
| 9 | The old lady spoke to me occasionally , but I noticed that she seemed to lapse into quiet moods . |
| 10 | Once a Met Officer remarked cheerfully to me ( from the warmth and light of the office ) , that the rats were much more frightened of me than I was of them , but I noticed that he did n't take me up on my suggestion that he should come out with me and see for himself . |
| 11 | Okay , yes I agreed for the er the price but I said that I have n't seen the work . |
| 12 | The colour is obvious with a telescope , but I confess that I have never been able to detect it with binoculars , even × 20 . |
| 13 | But I confess that I have not the same trust in some your peers . |
| 14 | ‘ But I admit that I 've said a lot of things in the deliberate hope of hurting or humiliating you , and that was one of them . ’ |
| 15 | It is of the eighth magnitude , but I admit that I have never been able to see it with certainty even with × 20 binoculars , though it is easy enough in a telescope . |
| 16 | I think it was 1964 , he thinks it was 1963 , but I know that we met in El Vino and hit it off immediately . |
| 17 | I 'm not so keen on that but I know that they have to attract young people as well . |
| 18 | I was a virgin when we married , but I know that she had been with other men before me . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't know who she is but I know that she exists . ’ |
| 20 | like perhaps appeals to womens magazines more than the other stuff but I know that I mean it 's not romantic in that way is it 's not a romance |
| 21 | But I know that I have done evil , and I hate myself more than you hate me . |
| 22 | Erm , and i i , I think people quite often feel very bad when they try to stop smoking , I I ha , used to smoke about forty a day and I 've now succeeded in stopped for about four years , but I know that I did have several failures and whe when when you try to stop and and fail you feel extremely bad and low and depressed about yourself , and people probably need quite a lot of support . |
| 23 | I do n't know what it was about , but I know that it shocked me into the sort of terror that I did n't know I was capable of . |
| 24 | But I know that he does n't love me , and despite that , he asks me to marry him ! ’ |
| 25 | But I know that he made it very hard for Sheila . |
| 26 | There were , of course , the inevitable forms to fill in and letters of condolence to answer , but I realized that I had not for a moment , since before the previous Christmas , given a thought to the prospect of life for one . |
| 27 | But I realized that I had to do something pretty dramatic to avoid too serious an accident . |
| 28 | ‘ But I understood that you intended to live with your friend after your father died . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ But I understood that it had been arranged that one of us was to go into each room . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I early found that I had not the literary ability to give me such a place among English authors as I should have desired ; but I thought that I had an opportunity of gaining a knowledge of many of the distinguished men of the age , and that I might do some good by keeping a record of my interviews with them . ’ |