Example sentences of "but [conj] i [vb base] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , but where I know it is a bit difficult with clothes because a market stall erm you do n't , you do n't normally get a chance to try the clothes on erm and you 're never absolutely sure are these clothes , is this garment going to fit or not ? |
| 2 | If I snatch your hat from your head with intent to steal it , that is conversion as well as trespass , but if I throw it at another person , that is trespass only , for I am not questioning your title to it . |
| 3 | not quite right , but if I go it 'll break back off . |
| 4 | But if I put it another way , you could meet your anticipated contribution to the Greater York figure as spelt out in the structure plan ? |
| 5 | But if I pull it off it 'll tear . |
| 6 | ‘ But if I win it at least I will be stopping Ayrton Senna — and that is my way of helping Alain to win the title . ’ |
| 7 | So I had a shot at this , but if I cut it out that part of the window was black , it did n't look right , so i put a shade over it . |
| 8 | Like tea — we have the same brand each week — but if I know it 's cheaper in one shop I go into that shop , just to get that one thing — like I got it for 1 //6; this week and it 's usually 1 //11; — I like to get the best , but cheaper . |
| 9 | I only wondered because I 've got to go out later , I need to get somebody else to come in and , and be here but if I think it 's only going to be about that . |
| 10 | They sent me another out and I thought oh right , but if I find it I 've to let them know , either give them it back or |
| 11 | If you go down to my secret chamber and look in one of the coffers you will find a crushed flower , a faded rose , more black than yellow now , but if I smell it and close my eyes ( like I did last night ) , then I am back again in Ralemberg 's garden and my blood runs free and the air is filled with the sweet fragrance of flowers . |
| 12 | So I 'm going to promise and you 've got to remind me about this promise that the next Tuesday , that 's when you 're or even Wednesday , but if I give it you Tuesday we can be organized for Wednesday ca n't we ? |
| 13 | Mum wants a pair of trousers for going out with , you know well she 's got plenty but like I say it 's but then you get I 'll no it 's not very personal to give somebody a voucher though is it ? |
| 14 | The gift is there , but until I make it mine , it does n't do me any good . |
| 15 | I would very much like CPRW to join , not because it might lead to an international jolly ( some hope ! ) , but because I think it would be a feather in CPRW 's cap , we will benefit from their advice and information , and we will be able to contribute something at a UK level . |
| 16 | But while I think it intrinsically unlikely that any of my co-habitees , if I my so describe them , should have committed murder , and I know that I did n't , I do n't know that I can help you very much . ’ |
| 17 | In relation to the Special Document , whilst I support the document er , as far as it goes with one exception , and that 's in relation to the unemployed members , but whilst I support it as far as it goes , I do n't believe it goes far enough . |
| 18 | I am going to criticise modern farming methods , I promise you , but before I do it is also worth remembering that the primary beneficiary has been the consumer . |
| 19 | But though I say it myself , I spun them a pretty good story . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm sure , rationally , that what happened next actually did happen , but when I write it down , even now after all this time , it seems so amazing to me that I can hardly believe it was true . |
| 21 | On a promotional video interview , they say they consulted the ancient Chinese book the I-Ching to make this choice , but when I bring it up Kier gives another reason . |
| 22 | If for example I am pursuing X in the expectation of enjoying it , but when I get it am disappointed , or seem to enjoy it yet afterwards come to recognize that only habit or a false idea of myself or susceptibility to persuasion made me suppose I was enjoying myself , then I was mistaken in doing Y. Every choice of means , however well argued , proves groundless with the discrediting of the end , yet that I did not have the fun I expected is itself no more than a fact . |
| 23 | ‘ I can not say when I will retire but when I do it will still be madness . |
| 24 | There are a number of mechanisms in place that are good by themselves , but when I add it together , it 's a very large time segment that we are always fighting . |
| 25 | But when I think it would have been just eight years from completion now , up to a height of about 400 feet , I think it 's sad we did n't get permission to build it . |
| 26 | So it 's sort of a mobility thing and erm I think people will notice it on erm on that kind of level erm but as I say it 's a gradual process it 's cumulative and erm |
| 27 | I 've got no idea of what it might fetch , but as I say it is fiction Kath , do n't worry about it . |
| 28 | But as I say it ce it would be better to do it that way . |
| 29 | But as i say it was like that for two or three years . |
| 30 | with some , some things to write a few words in , some things to tick , some things to make a mark on one of the numbers and so forth so erm er you know it 's erm but as I say it 's difficult to er |