Example sentences of "but i [verb] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's always easier to talk about warts and carbuncles than it is to focus on beauty spots , but I hope to get the balance right this morning . |
| 2 | After dinner the people watch the television but I prefer to watch the tropical fish in the Smiths ' tank : give me piranha fish any day over cricket or soap operas . |
| 3 | In the old days people used to put ashes on top , but I prefer to use a utensil and I take it out on to the pasture . |
| 4 | You can knit row one at the usual cast-on tension , but I prefer to increase the tension to three on one of the carriages . |
| 5 | My stomach went all queer inside but I managed to push the message between her icy fingers and kiss her forehead before I pulled my hand away . |
| 6 | It was down to the practice ground in the gloom for Jack and myself but I managed to get a message to Sally to meet me an hour later than planned . |
| 7 | ‘ But I managed to get a shilling for the horsehair chair , with the bed thrown in . ’ |
| 8 | It took me about a day each to write , seal , stamp and post this letter of mine , but I managed to get the thing off in the end . |
| 9 | I was n't in I was n't in in that song but I went to watch the play |
| 10 | and rung the A A , so as I got through to the A A man I says erm , you know , I says I , where I was parked and all like that and where I was stood and the chap says oh I 'll get a , a van up to ya as soon as I can , but I says wait a minute , I says my car 's just arrived and Joan was the mechanic , he lifted bonnet up and touched something and you brought it down did n't you ? |
| 11 | But I intend to drive the strategy that is already in place and leave my successor to drive it even further . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You have to be competitive to keep on competing but I try to instil the value of the social side of it in my dancers . |
| 13 | In the end I agreed to do this but I remember leaving the meeting literally , I am afraid , in tears and saying that although I would obey the majority I would resign from the Government afterwards as quietly as I could because I should have failed to uphold an almost lifelong conviction … |
| 14 | But I remember having a day off from teaching at the time , probably because of the various strikes , and watching the lunchtime television . |
| 15 | I really liked both of these guitars and would urge anyone to try one , but I 've saved the best news until last : just look at the prices … |
| 16 | But I 've noticed a few faces in the crowd and it wo n't be long . |
| 17 | Now some of you , if you 've only been with the company a few months or whatever it was , may not have noticed too much of a change , er , but I 've noticed a bit of a ch , I 've noticed a tremendous change in two and half months , two and a half years , and there 's some people in the room who must have noticed tremendous changes . |
| 18 | ‘ But I 've become a cult figure over the past 18 months , I have respect now ; people do n't walk up in the street and say ‘ Hi Chris ’ and clap me on the shoulder . |
| 19 | I did n't suffer from morning sickness but I 've become an insomniac over the months and had the good fortune ( or so they tell me ) to have a healthy foetus that started kicking me at thirteen weeks . |
| 20 | ‘ But I 've heard the stories ! |
| 21 | But I 've made a few enquiries about him , discreetly , of course , from Mr Tucker in Nassau . |
| 22 | but I 've lost a few pounds since last week . |
| 23 | It has but I 've turned the stat back up on the cylinder just made the boiler cut in again cos that 's that 's why the boilers cutting out cos it what it does once it gets up to temperature then it 'll shut itself off . |
| 24 | We were leaking goals but I 've plugged the gaps and with McMenemy 's help , got a vote of confidence from chairman Keith Fisher . |
| 25 | But I 've said the same before , only to hear someone use the same gadget and get a monster sound . |
| 26 | But I 've said the |
| 27 | But I 've got ta though . |
| 28 | like this very much but I 've got ta Ben |
| 29 | That 's right , yeah , but I 've got ta |
| 30 | But I 've studied the place a little . |