Example sentences of "but [adv] i [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr did n't wan na work tomorrow really though cos I 've got ta be I 've got ta meet that new dentist tomorrow but obviously I owe him . |
| 2 | ‘ But personally I think he 's split , now his organisation 's blown apart . |
| 3 | And in the twelfth race , the six forty five erm West Mead Ricky erm adversely drawn in trap four , but nevertheless I think he 's a little bit better class , so that 's the fourth leg of our Radio Oxford yankee erm West Mead Ricky , that 's the ten twenty . |
| 4 | But somehow I knew he would n't . |
| 5 | He wo n't want to , but somehow I think he will . " |
| 6 | But once I saw him lumbering down Ward Street , you know , opposite , and he was here as well , messing around with the television . |
| 7 | But once I asked him why he was in prison , and he muttered about his days at Le Coq d'Or tavern in Paris and said he was a prisoner because he could ‘ count the days ’ . ’ |
| 8 | But still I wanted him to … |
| 9 | But also I think he rips off that culture . |
| 10 | But now I suppose he had nothing to win , nothing to lose , and it made everything easier . |
| 11 | But now I have him in my corner it has turned my career around . |
| 12 | Maybe he was beginning to be sick , but mainly I think he was distressed . |
| 13 | But sometimes I feel he does n't give me any choice . ’ |
| 14 | I was gon na say Alistair but then I thought he 's in the loo so I ca n't . |
| 15 | For a moment , I took him for a vagrant , but then I saw he was just some local fellow enjoying the fresh air and summer sunshine , and saw no reason not to comply . |
| 16 | I looked at him , surprised at his quick recovery , but then I saw he had n't really recovered , he was just pretending in order not to hurt me . |
| 17 | I usually work him in for an hour , but when I 'm riding him around in the arena before the bell goes , I 'm still thinking , ‘ How on earth am I going to get this thing up the centre line ? ’ because he 's gawping at everything , but then I give him a jolly good boot and we get on with it … ’ |
| 18 | Lorimer was the name that sprung to mind as well as a match for Sterland but then I suppose he was n't a defender . |
| 19 | He is , after all , the Chairman of that committee but certainly I advised him against that and I thought it was totally wrong er to do it in the way he did and I , I think it was a shame for this Council that he , that he did go ahead , but there you are . |