Example sentences of "[pers pn] but i [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 I think they had a jolly good time at the taxpayer 's expense , I but I wo n't be
2 I but I wo n't then .
3 And I but I could n't get up at them , the the storekeeper was fairly strict with us youngsters and he used to chase us .
4 And I 'll home in oh once again erm sorry I 'll I 'll repeat to you but I 'll I 'll reinforce that
5 Do n't know about you but I shall be glad to get away from my lot .
6 I will make sure that I meet you but I shall pretend that I have never seen you before .
7 I would go instead of you but I ca n't , can I , with Mum sick and the baby due any day ? ’
8 I 'm here to help you but I ca n't do that unless you talk to me .
9 disturbed you but I wo n't be on the phone long cos I er , my name is Bill and I work with a firm called for Windows .
10 There is so much to tell you but I will try and share some of the things for which I would appreciate your prayers .
11 ‘ I bet it moves the books around just to torment me but I 'll get it , do n't you worry .
12 I have brought them with me but I ca n't just keep them at home .
13 I know it inside me but I ca n't say it out loud ; not yet , Gerry .
14 Some foreign name , Baptiste said : Maman told it me but I ca n't remember .
15 ‘ This is a new chance for me but I ca n't say yet that it 's the beginning of something long term .
16 She pro she might have done to me but I ca n't remember .
17 I know you like me but I would n't dare
18 I could hear Auntie Jean shouting at me but I could n't make out anything she was saying .
19 Most of it was double-dutch to me but I could make out the names entered in columns .
20 They ran after me but I could run much faster without the wedding dress .
21 ‘ The money aspect at Leeds is nothing to do with me but I could tell Mr Wilkinson was very sorry to see me go .
22 Well , I , he did tell me but I could n't remember , sh
23 I mean I ca n't in , I like to shut my door , I mean I do n't mind people coming to visit me but I could n't stand people in and out , in and out my house all day , that would crack me up .
24 This applies not only to the anger implicit in embarrassment or defensiveness ( " it 's not my fault , it 's yours ! " ) but also in our apparently most reasoned attitudes — " I fear and am ashamed of my own homosexual feeling ; I am angry with it in itself ; I will project this anger outside me but I can not admit why ; all homosexuals should be shot because they corrupt little children ! "
25 it 's er does n't actually affect me but I can hear it .
26 JACKEY : A charming girl , though , dear aunt , forgive me but I must kiss her .
27 ‘ I never met them but I 'll keep that ring all my life . ’
28 That , I mean , the , the appointments what Jane and Linda do make me , I 'll be honest , they 're quality appointments , not all of them but I would sixty , seventy percent of them are good quality appointments .
29 Daphne would happily have paid for them but I would n't allow her to as I wanted my classmates to think we were pals .
30 And they 'd come up and wait them but I 'd make them a cup of coffee or a cup of cocoa or something like that , there were n't coffee then cos we could n't afford coffee we used to have cocoa or make them a mug of tea .
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