Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah you can , yeah , but I think me in inches I know it 's a |
| 2 | Peggy closed the door behind them ; but Lizzie held her tongue until they had moved further down the corridor , when she said , ‘ She gets worse ; selfish to the core , ’ and Peggy reminded her , ‘ Well , you made your escape , Mam , but you left me with it . ’ |
| 3 | But you pat me on the bottom and send me home , and hope I 'll ‘ keep in touch ’ ! |
| 4 | But you touched me on the cheek . |
| 5 | Sorry about the mess but you caught me on the hop like . |
| 6 | ‘ You did Celia a favour — she deserved it , I suppose , but you parted me from my twin sister without a single qualm . |
| 7 | ‘ But you want me for more than one night . ’ |
| 8 | My father who was not conversant with your rituals , was judged by you to be common ; but you consider me to be your equal at the very moment that I am in a position to look down upon my father who was common , and to be ashamed of my grandfather who was working-class . |
| 9 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ She is a dragon , ’ said Dinah , ‘ but she keeps me from annoyance , and Papa had the room designed so that no one could get straight in . ’ |
| 11 | I was nervous but she put me at ease immediately . |
| 12 | ‘ I was trying to save some of the Guinness for you , but she hit me with my own stick . |
| 13 | Barbs is n't so old or so smelly , but she reminds me of him . ’ |
| 14 | But she stopped me with a look . |
| 15 | And erm I did n't get the actual job I went for but they put me on the , on the relief register so that I go round to different people 's homes or different big hospitals and different Mencap homes relieving people when they 're on holiday or if they 're short of staff or something like that . |
| 16 | But they put me in mind of trees in November . |
| 17 | But they accuse me of lying in my book . |
| 18 | But he greeted me by swearing at me , so I went into the hall to find somebody else . |
| 19 | It is some five years since I worked with Mr Edell in his previous incarnation as a lawyer , but he struck me as a man who would do the necessary . |
| 20 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 21 | But he told me of a new home just completed , where Aunt Louise had been offered a place . |
| 22 | But he treated me like a little girl ; part of his training , I suppose . ’ |
| 23 | I went to the sergeant and told him this , but he ordered me to be on my way . |
| 24 | I pulled him away and tried to get him upstairs in case he was traumatized for life , but he kicked me in the balls . |
| 25 | Yeah , yeah was kind , it was kind of them , yes and we went all round the shops and er I thoroughly enjoyed it and in the new Co-Op as well you know , I thoroughly enjoyed it but he took me in the car so that we did n't have to hang about you see |
| 26 | Michael is a man who knows his own mind and I was relying on him for some controversial quotes , but he surprised me by agreeing on the whole with Mr Isherwood 's choices . |
| 27 | all I thought like I was passing a bit of gossip , but he paid me for it |
| 28 | But he introduced me to his friends . |
| 29 | How I thought he could help me I do n't know , but he invited me for lunch , anyway , and he was lovely . |
| 30 | I am bound to say that his personality and his voice with his Glasgow accent were a little disconcerting at first ( I felt rather as if I were being addressed by my highly educated carpenter ) , but he inspired me with such confidence as he went on that I forgot that , and of course one has to recognise that a new era in political life has dawned for England , the old aristocratic school is practically swept out of it , it is the dawn of the new " regime " . |