Example sentences of "but at the same time i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe in a competitive world , but at the same time I think we have got to be laying sound foundations for future growth and if we are constantly pressured into satisfying stock-market expectations , which are short-term , or under threat of take-over , we will not be investing enough for the long-term development of our businesses . |
| 2 | But at the same time I want to stress how crucially important to CAFOD are the offerings from the coming Family Fast Day . |
| 3 | I half disapproved of these costumes , they made me feel uncomfortable , but at the same time I admired and envied her , she was so original and unconcerned . |
| 4 | I sha n't be trampled on , Flick , do n't you worry — but at the same time I sha n't go through life as gracefully as you , or with a flourish of trumpets like Gay . |
| 5 | The irresponsibility of this helped me to escape the force of the problems , but at the same time I was constantly troubled by suspicion . |
| 6 | ‘ It was great for doing Wes Montgomery , but at the same time I was playing Hendrix and Bloomfield and all kinds of stuff on this poor old hollowbody — and I was using Marshalls as well ! |
| 7 | But at the same time I want to go to parties . |
| 8 | I paused to marshal all my heartfelt arguments against the cruise-cure , but at the same time I felt a sudden and oceanic surge of homesickness . |
| 9 | But at the same time I was learning the lesson that such behaviour is not acceptable to adults , to whom I presented a different personality . |
| 10 | Here is another of the paradoxes of anorexia nervosa : I must , in my unconscious , have wanted to grow up , but at the same time I was determined not to , because the models of potential adulthood with which I was presented were either repugnant or impossible to attain . |
| 11 | But at the same time I should like to show that the speaking is by no means straightforward speech . |
| 12 | But at the same time I dimly knew that they were somehow successful human beings and that I , I alone , was not . |
| 13 | But at the same time I 've got a cartoon girl I 'm dying to get it on with . |
| 14 | But 60-year-old Bill has hit hard times and said : ‘ I do n't want to sell my memorabilia but at the same time I refuse to sign on the dole — I 'm too proud for that . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I did , but at the same time I felt like I understood Manson because , maybe in a superficial way , I felt like I naturally spoke like him . |
| 16 | Darling , I am sorry for you , but at the same time I am sure that one day you will be very glad things have turned out the way they have . |
| 17 | But at the same time I keep asking , Why ? |
| 18 | I was walking along with my girl and I see my old man and I was scared , you know , smoking , but at the same time I did n't want to throw it away because my girl was there , you know , and she 'd see it , and I just kept on walking and my old man stopped and said to me , ‘ Give me a light ’ , and I give him a light , and he said , ‘ I 'm away to the shops ’ , and I was , you know , thinking , I can get away with this . |
| 19 | but at the same time I would want to afford er , you as heads of departments er er everybody 's heads of department a little bit of leeway what i what if , what wa wa we have to be careful about this that we set a standard but allow a little leeway because all departments are slightly different and want to approach things |
| 20 | It mocked me , but at the same time I knew I was in danger of surrendering to it , that damned semblance of what I wanted — I was being weakened by it , seduced into yielding to your power over me , and it 's so much more comprehensive than my one-dimensional influence on you . |
| 21 | But at the same time I revelled in the unlovely sound because it might be the saving of my miserable life . |
| 22 | She reminded me that I was a married man — forbade me to approach her or speak to her again in that way , but at the same time I knew I had made her think about the old days — the attraction we 'd had for each other which she could not deny . |
| 23 | But at the same time I 'm proud to say that I 'm a member of the T an er of the G M B |
| 24 | But at the same time I realise it means they 're basically trying to control my music which I did n't expect ’ As for taking him seriously , American composer Philip Glass offered to do a 12-inch remix of Hey Music Lover after Moore took him out for a night in the clubs . |
| 25 | It would be a shame to see Rocky dropped again after apparently playing very well since he came into the side , but at the same time I ca n't really see him keeping Strach out of the team . |
| 26 | I do n't want to tell him over the phone , but at the same time I ca n't pretend everything 's all right . ’ |
| 27 | But at the same time I wo n't be throwing my arms round them and kissing them either , ’ he said . |
| 28 | I now have a hell of a lot more time for people but at the same time I do n't seem to tolerate fools as well as I used to . |
| 29 | So I mean again I realized I had dug a hole for myself with the compressed funding but at the same time I was saying to myself oh yeah there is carry forward here er |
| 30 | My thinking was in some way parallel to that of the generative semantics school , but at the same time I developed my own ideas independently of them . |