Example sentences of "but [Wh det] i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it .
2 Faussone talks about ‘ the way we bent our elbows ’ — an expression ( for eating or drinking ) which I have heard spoken in English , but which I had never before seen written down in a book .
3 And then there was another sound which I did n't like to think about at all , but which I presumed was Jack Scamp hailing his last London cab .
4 My hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow ( Mr. Dalyell ) raised some extremely interesting issues which we do not have time to debate today but which I hope will be debated in the other place , such as the relationship between the putative funding council and the Scottish Office .
5 At the doctor 's I generally last four minutes before collapsing whilst trying to describe the muscle pain which he knows is a muscle pain but which I know he 's only saying is a muscle pain to disguise the seriousness of his true diagnosis .
6 Can you give me any information , including availability and cost , of the Photon guitar synthesiser which is used to great effect by John McLauglin but which I have never seen advertised .
7 I 've also got more copies of the reading list which I 've forgotten to bring with me but which I have got er upstairs and they 're pinned to my door , if anybody needs another reading list , okay ?
8 Erm the principle aim of the new settlement would be to meet the needs of Greater York and one area that I 'm afraid has n't been considered yet , but which I think may well come out in connection with the employment policies in due course , is whether or not a new settlement in Selby would actually conflict with the underlying policies of Selby for development .
9 After that it was back into the ‘ chocolate box ’ scenery of western Norway , the fabulous fiords and magnificent mountains , which are marvellous to look at and to photograph , but which I find a bit aloof and unattainable .
10 Another trick that I have learnt is for increasing the likelihood that I will actually get down to a job which is becoming urgent but which I do n't want to do .
11 All that I ever learned at college of philosophy had been a conception of the external world as a colourless and soundless wilderness whose true nature one could never know , which one could not even imagine — but which I did , none the less , imagine as a vast landscape of polar spaces in whose eternal twilight one wandered , preoccupied and deluded by a flicker of magic-lantern pictures which danced inside one 's mind and for ever remained private to oneself .
12 But whatever I thought of him , Gyggle 's therapy had been one hundred per cent successful .
13 But whatever I do ( and I do plenty ) I can not change Rainbow 's belief that it is as blessed to give as to receive .
14 But what I set out to do was to show the idiocy of his ideas by bouncing them against other ideas , some of them perhaps equally extreme and absurd .
15 If I say ‘ Prostitution is on the increase ’ I express my belief that it is on the increase , but what I put upon the mat for discussion is not my holding the belief , but rather the state of affairs , which I hold to be actual , but which others may not , of prostitution being on the increase .
16 But what I like best about Remembering Night are the clothes .
17 The number could easily have been doubled , and doubled again , in further trips , but what I had discovered was already enough to reveal the full horror of what was happening .
18 I had never believed in ghosts but what I had seen was unaccountable .
19 Maybe if I 'd been able to do some kind of planche , like your painter friend did on your … back , it would have been easy , but what I had to do was first try to get something akin to an erection standing at the copier of a deserted office on a holiday .
20 But what I had also noticed was that certain firms for example that w were er th then extant , er they in fact would s er say have a three-piece moved , and you 'd have a huge van would go to pick up a three-piece suite .
21 Is that what I wrote er right What that 's what I wrote but what I said was , Each of the acids reacting with this starting
22 But what I said is the way I feel . ’
23 My voice was muted , but what I said was , " No .
24 But what I said .
25 But what I got out of Jimi is the freedom on the guitar , to show how you feel at the time .
26 If it 's money you want , I do n't have much with me , but what I got you 're welcome to .
27 I do n't know what he thought about , but what I thought about was how in God 's name we were going to be able to face each other in the morning .
28 with Mr but what I thought I 'd do today is see how much you 've remembered of one or two of the basic topics .
29 But what I thought was fever was the fire of existence , the passion to exist .
30 But what I thought of as a contribution often seemed to be less appreciated than the things I thought of as irrelevant and boring .
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