Example sentences of "but i [be] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I am completely lost at meetings and need an interpreter . |
| 2 | But I am also attracted by Graff 's suggestion that those who favoured a ‘ literary ’ , aesthetic , affective way of reading would then experience the satisfaction of working against the prevailing grain . |
| 3 | But I am well preserved , Alida thought , turning a little to the glass , I have taken care . |
| 4 | You have fought me since our first meeting and finally you have left me with a rather wet and creased shirt , but I am not offended . ’ |
| 5 | But I am not convinced by it . |
| 6 | ‘ But I am close chaperoned , my lord , ’ Joan pointed out unhappily . |
| 7 | I am going to trade up from my Hunter HB31 soon , but I am hard pressed to find a production boat in the 37–40ft ( 11–12m ) range that I would really like to buy , even given the money . |
| 8 | You may have been single-minded about racing , but I was also tied into my work . |
| 9 | ‘ I did write to them but I was just snubbed . ’ |
| 10 | Yeah but I was just got out of it , not very good at it . |
| 11 | But I was eventually sent to Ghana . |
| 12 | It was blustery and there was the constant peppering by grit , but I was well protected and enjoyed watching the storm . |
| 13 | But I was not prepared for the raking over of academic arguments on defining poverty around when John Moore , then Secretary of State for Social Services , said poverty no longer existed . |
| 14 | I was convinced of it , but I was not staked on it . |
| 15 | I was told that the incidence of re-offending was very low but I was not given any actual figures in support of this . |
| 16 | The plane was loaded down so much that it had difficulty in skimming the tops of those large mountains , but I was not troubled , thinking that the pilot was a well-trained American , until after an hour of this mountain hopping a small Chinese face appeared at the cockpit door and said , ‘ Is you all all-lite ? ’ |
| 17 | We must have been poor or deliberately austere , but I was not told … |
| 18 | ‘ Make way for Miss Louise , ’ they chorused , but I was not bothered by their sarcasm : it was the snowballs that some threw that mattered . |
| 19 | Oh , I admit it was rather clever of you to engineer that intimate little scene we 've just shared , but I was n't fooled . |
| 20 | But I was n't struck by any thunderbolts or lightning flashes , and when talking about the dance afterwards in the Met Office I merely remarked to the officer on duty that I 'd met a very nice corporal and he 'd asked me to go to the Station cinema with him on Saturday . |
| 21 | But I was n't consulted about the cover . |
| 22 | I did n't know what I expected ( chanting and rune casting , perhaps ) , but I was n't prepared for the tingling sensation affecting the areas of my body immediately underneath her small hands . |
| 23 | Over the past few years , the quality of in-service training courses for teachers has improved greatly , but I was n't prepared for the effort [ and financial resources ] that had obviously been put into the ‘ Quality in Action ’ workshop . |
| 24 | ‘ But I was n't thought of as a Beauty . ’ |
| 25 | My mother and father both encouraged me in my playing , but I was n't encouraged to get into the business because they knew it was kind of tough . |
| 26 | Well , I could have killed the bastard on the spot but I was n't armed . |
| 27 | But I was n't allowed to take it with me when I left ; it was n't really mine at all . |
| 28 | The building , the staff and the food were wonderful , but I was n't allowed out of the front door on my own . |
| 29 | Not only was Pumblechook 's elbow in my eye , but I was n't allowed to speak , and they gave me the worst pieces of meat . |
| 30 | But I was n't allowed to have that either , was I ? ’ |