Example sentences of "but i [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But me thought of sharing his Minto-life with Warnie was not without its complications for Jack himself . |
| 2 | ‘ I speak not only of the Army — although as Colonel Moore knows probably better than I , the acts of heroism you see there in the face of pain — wounds , cuts , torn limbs ’ — he looked at Mrs Crump ; she swayed slightly — ‘ severed arteries , gashed heads ’ — Mrs Moore was unaffected — ‘ and all the terrible lacerations and disfigurements received on the human body in modern warfare ’ — Miss D'Arcy nodded ; she was intrigued — ‘ but I speak of the self-inflicted torments of the Indian , the Negro and the Mussulman . ’ |
| 3 | My mind turned back to the man Mrs Bradshaw had accosted in the garden , but I knew of no one who bore me that kind of grudge or , if he did , would take it out on me in such a petty and spiteful way . |
| 4 | I did n't know the person but I knew of her and I knew a friend of mine went to her , this is the one that did seven years . |
| 5 | But I mean of course they plugged me up with all sorts of things . |
| 6 | In our case , of course , it would have been impossible , but I know of cases where parents have attempted to keep their adopted children in ignorance of their origins . |
| 7 | For example , racehorses abort all too frequently , which is particularly galling after a large stud fee , but I know of no accurate information about the comparative frequency of abortion of the four types of conceptus ( horse , donkey , mule and hinny ) . |
| 8 | But I know of no other performance that encapsulates the charmed essence of this infuriatingly diffuse music with such surety and projection . |
| 9 | ‘ No , but I know of her family . ’ |
| 10 | But I know of it , ’ he added . |
| 11 | But I know of several people who having been in full-time Christian work have been prepared to get a secular job for a time , until the new church was able to support them . |
| 12 | ‘ But I know of no sociological survey that shows that . |
| 13 | " I knew him briefly in the last days before the Rising , but I know of his work of course . |
| 14 | Re-employment has been shown to produce measurable improvements in health , but I know of no study of the effects of joining a workfare scheme . |
| 15 | ‘ I would n't like to say that there is not such a thing as black magic but I know of a coincidence , or something that happened regularly . |
| 16 | ‘ I am not in the way of trafficking with Humans , but I know of the Gruagach , ’ said the Robemaker , standing very still . |
| 17 | One can easily produce evidence at the present day of great local abundance ( e.g. of starfish or pilchards ) , but I know of nothing on a modern sea-floor to compare with the abundance plus wide distribution of the examples just mentioned . |
| 18 | There were no violent incidents of that magnitude at Twickenham for the Calcutta Cup match , but I know of many Scots who found the atmosphere unpleasant and have decided not to attend future rugby internationals in London . |
| 19 | ‘ But I know of a way . ’ |
| 20 | But I left of my own free will . |
| 21 | She could not have been very old when I first knew her , but I thought of her as old , partly because her hair was pure white . |
| 22 | But I thought of you , your concern for me , and how it might trouble your conscience ( not that you would ever hear of it ) so I stopped . |
| 23 | It did n't bear thinking of , but I thought of nothing else as I prepared to go down to breakfast . |
| 24 | But I thought of the snow , the speed of the train , and the rifle , and decided that I still had no intention of trying to escape . |
| 25 | But I thought of a barrister |
| 26 | But I thought of her . |
| 27 | But I thought of Sebastian in the Central Criminal Court . |
| 28 | certainly but I have of that . |
| 29 | ‘ But I think of you as a creative writer , ’ he hazarded at last , amazed at his own effrontery . |
| 30 | But I think of course we can all debate er the various individual proposals and I think if we were in control of the council not only of course would we have different policies but the sort of detailed matters which would come up in debate would be discussed in committee , things would be in the normal way . |