Example sentences of "but [adv] i be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps I 'm going to be proved to be over innocent in thinking that is a viable approach . |
| 2 | Instead I kept silent , but inside I was singing in a very loud voice . |
| 3 | But suddenly I 'm looking round that kitchen like I never saw it before . |
| 4 | He told me to wait , but soon I was ushered into an office with an enormous map of Parma province on the wall , and a senior officer in uniform sitting at the desk . |
| 5 | But already I am running into problems . |
| 6 | My course will eventually qualify me for a good career but meanwhile I 'm struggling on an allowance . |
| 7 | I knew nothing about Balder ; but instantly I was uplifted into huge regions of northern sky . |
| 8 | ‘ I walked away and put things on hold for a couple of years but now I am committed to getting that shirt , ’ he added . |
| 9 | But now I 'm looking at 15 articles totalling 20,000 words which I must deliver within the next six days . |
| 10 | My name 's Paul I 'm a sergeant with the Community Affairs Department er I 'm , I was based at until last week but now I 'm based at temporarily . |
| 11 | ‘ When we played Everton I had four people working with me , ’ recalls Biggins , ‘ but now I 'm working on my own for the VAT man . |
| 12 | Now you er it was interesting to hear what your choice is but now I 'm gon na have to step in and say yeah |
| 13 | The language of special education had long been tucked under my belt , but now I was faced with filling in timetables with terms such as ‘ DD ’ time — departmental duties , to the uninitiated — in other words , time when I was not actually in direct teaching contact with students . |
| 14 | But mainly I 'm dreaming of that loan , writing pages and pages of pros and cons , imagining what it will be like inside the loan committee . |
| 15 | But underneath I was battling like mad just to stay afloat . " |
| 16 | ‘ But sometime I 'm going to be able to look for one , are n't I ? |
| 17 | I expect Hamish will be writing again pretty soon again too , but here I am sitting at the computer anyway , putting off writing a series of begging letters to friends and connections in various educational and other institutions and organizations asking them to submit to Chambers Harrap ( as we now are ) all partable-with unpublished bumf ( memos , minutes , notices , reports , etc , etc ) to swell the ‘ ephemera ’ ( new stretched meaning ) content of the British National Corpus of English . |
| 18 | I did n't think I 'd ever be able to afford it , but here I am sitting in my own fitted kitchen , in my own centrally heated home . |
| 19 | Looking back , I can see how infantile my behaviour was — but then I was flushed with success , convinced that nothing and no one could thwart me . ’ |