Example sentences of "[pers pn] but i [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will make sure that I meet you but I shall pretend that I have never seen you before . |
| 2 | There is so much to tell you but I will try and share some of the things for which I would appreciate your prayers . |
| 3 | ‘ I bet it moves the books around just to torment me but I 'll get it , do n't you worry . |
| 4 | ‘ The money aspect at Leeds is nothing to do with me but I could tell Mr Wilkinson was very sorry to see me go . |
| 5 | Most of it was double-dutch to me but I could make out the names entered in columns . |
| 6 | They ran after me but I could run much faster without the wedding dress . |
| 7 | it 's er does n't actually affect me but I can hear it . |
| 8 | JACKEY : A charming girl , though , dear aunt , forgive me but I must kiss her . |
| 9 | ‘ I never met them but I 'll keep that ring all my life . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We do n't really need either of them but I must say that , despite the professionalism and expertise they both possess , judging from the contents rather than the covers we need Pocket less than we need Orion . |
| 12 | I do n't know why you wanted to know about him but I 'll tell you . |
| 13 | After his triumph , Benn said : ‘ I do n't want to fight Eubank because I do n't like him but I 'll take it for the million he was asking for . ’ |
| 14 | I mean I 'd forgotten all about him but I can remember |
| 15 | Er I have n't Alan this morning to discuss it with him but I will see him . |
| 16 | I felt sorry for him but I must admit when I got home and the following morning , and since then I 've felt quite angry about it . |
| 17 | I tried to stare my dislike into him but I must have been unsuccessful for he merely said with a primitive accent : ‘ Good in auto , yes ? ’ and grinned . |
| 18 | ‘ It takes a lot to upset him but I should imagine he gets very angry when anything does get to him . ’ |
| 19 | I am not very sure what 's wrong with her but I can tell by the way they start discussing the weather when I come into the room that it must be Women 's Trouble . |
| 20 | I can not see her but I can summon up her presence . |
| 21 | I ca n't help her but I can listen . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't need it but I 'll do much better than that . |
| 23 | I would have thought M C A might be the easiest way of doing it but I 'll think about it because the passenger could hand the M C A over to the agent , together with a little note that we have attached to it . |
| 24 | Well if you want facts and figures on it we can give you it but I 'll tell you what it 's meant to I 'll tell you what it 's meant training service I can tell you what it 's meant to the royal dockyards which we 've got to talk about yet from thirteen thousand , in some instances you 're down to five . |
| 25 | I hate it but I 'll tell you why in a minute . |
| 26 | And there 's tear stains on it but I 'll put up with that . |
| 27 | The preventative , the word preventative comes in so frequently , and particularly in the children 's services , I agree with the second one , it but I would like to have a more detailed report er , on that second element which is on page seven , the last item before you get to elderly people . |
| 28 | I 'd like to put one simple note and I think it 'll have to be simple for him to understand it but I would like to put one simple notion to him and that is that there is great merit in having public services sharing by people from all social classes . |
| 29 | You may not like me for it but I will have to drive you hard if you are to learn all you will need to survive what you will face . |
| 30 | and , well no it 's not sociable but because you come out and it , it gets you away from here because you 've got so many things on during the day you want some time to yourself and because you , we 've found us a place that we wo n't get busted and we know we wo n't we go in and have it but I can guarantee that if we were , like walking into this room , if it was full of smoke it would put me off straight away . |