Example sentences of "[noun] but [subord] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was going to garden for some active therapy but when I got there I thought better of it . |
| 2 | Good progress was made on the Saturday but when I looked at what still remained for Sunday , I thought we 'd do well to finish half the distance . |
| 3 | I hit the ball great on the range but when I get on the course it all goes wrong . |
| 4 | I volunteered for the Grenadier Guards , well I had to go to Chelsea Barracks and after a week there , they decided that I was n't medically fit for them , although the doctor or the M O at the Ipswich Recruiting Officer said , oh yes , you 're A one you 'll be fine for the guard but cos I was fairly well built , stature wise . |
| 5 | I must admit that I do not always want to go to work but once I am there I nearly always have a really good time . |
| 6 | Oh she knew the bloke , she 'd be she 'd been out with him a few times before right , he 's , he 's not a bad bloke but like I said like I said erm but he 's respect for her I said to her |
| 7 | ‘ I loved dancing but as I got older I loved teaching the little ones more , ’ says Susan , a nursery nurse at Kenton Bar Primary School in Newcastle . |
| 8 | I was brought up perfectly ordinarily in the Church of England but when I was sixteen or seventeen my reason naturally rejected such nonsense . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ They were shooting in all directions but as I drove towards them on my tractor they started to run . |
| 10 | Just as a matter of interest I was gon na bring up onto the er planning minutes for the tenth of January but as I was n't allowed er The I had a phone call from the electricity board following the erm erm discussions that we had about the power supply on Road , they 'd received a follow up enquiry from the press , if you recall we expressed concern that we thought that secured following the harsh winter three years ago . |
| 11 | I hear , I , I , I think there is a tendency with the County Council but as I discovered as Chairman of Highways that members want to take a greater interest and to have a greater say on the items on the agenda now planning is is not a controversial as , as say highway items , but nevertheless I think there will be times and there will be agendas which will require a great deal of discussion on the individual items and I 'm also a great believer bearing in mind comments if it ai n't broke , do n't bend it . |
| 12 | ‘ I am Betty 's pusher but because I have had a hip replacement I am limited in the amount I can walk , ’ said Mr Richardson . |
| 13 | We , very seldom that we have boiled potatoes but if I wanted a potato I think to cover all the needs to keep , I would go for Desiree because that one will fit almost any bill at all , it 'll do everything , it 's the best all round potato , late potato that I have ever grown and eaten . |
| 14 | ‘ I did not apply for the job but after I was asked to a meeting with the chairman , Jimmy Baxter , I was impressed by East Fife 's ambition , ’ said Totten . |
| 15 | Aye it was a difficult job but as I say to have an experience mines |
| 16 | ‘ A battleship is the salt cellar and the pepper a fishtank but if I see them both together they become a kangaroo . ’ |
| 17 | I hope to see most of you personally over the next few weeks but if I do n't then can I say ‘ Thanks ’ and ‘ All the Best for a healthy and prosperous future . ’ |
| 18 | A lady who suffers with a hiatus hernia wrote , ‘ I have had to take Rennies after meals for years but since I have been on this diet I have n't had a Rennie for five weeks ! |
| 19 | To cap all I suffered a physical hallucination as I staggered up the road beyond the inlet of Enard Bay : I could clearly see a row of cottages at the top of the hill but when I got there , they had vanished . |
| 20 | Now , that 's really great to me because I mean , you 're really stimulating the youngsters at that age , and quite obviously I could tell you loads of stories the way this neighbourhood engineers er er , scheme works at the moment but as I say we are embarrassed at the moment because , quite obviously , loads of school want us to participate but we got a very shortage of engineers . |
| 21 | It obviously took a while to find my feet with the group but when I had done I really started to enjoy myself . |
| 22 | ‘ I was n't part of the investigation but because I was on duty I had to go to the scene of the crime . |
| 23 | I listened for some sound of other prisoners in the building but although I thought I heard the locking and unlocking of other doors the only voices were those of the guards . |
| 24 | The yellow and orange feathers that form the head flash can be quite inconspicuous at times but when I spread them out with my fingers they burned like flame in what was left of the winter light . |
| 25 | It 's just possible Mr Deputy Speaker , it 's just possible I may not be selected for all kinds of reasons but if I was selected it might at least give the people of that lovely part of the world the chance of having the referendum they never had over Maastricht because of the shameful way in which the Labour party was not willing to allow the people to have their say on that vital issue . |
| 26 | And that may be okay in a departmental level but when I had an integrated global enterprise operating in integrated fashion around an integrated I T system then clearly I can not afford to allow a failure to actually paralyze the system . |
| 27 | I HAD to retire early after several operations but because I am on an invalidity pension , and not income support , I do not get mortgage , rent , poll tax , dental or any other sort of relief . |
| 28 | I du n no if it 's because it 's melted a bit but when I tried it before |
| 29 | I had loads but since I ai n't had none . |
| 30 | Yeah well I 'll ask I 'll ask my mum but if I if I did n't I 'm gon na have to get perhaps |