Example sentences of "but i [vb past] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I knew this was wishing for the impossible . |
| 2 | But I knew this was a vain hope because the house was always locked securely . |
| 3 | But I knew this was not always the case . |
| 4 | The arrival of Deacon Billingsley should have given me the satisfaction that my telephone call had been treated seriously , but I sensed this policeman was not going to offer me any satisfaction at all . |
| 5 | erm But I raised this at the alcohol forum , because erm sometime this summer I had a phone call from Mr Bailey here , who is a resident of East Oxford , to express his concern about various problems erm in East Oxford , problems that were posed to residents there . |
| 6 | I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked . |
| 7 | it 's still a but it 's a different camp , but I wrote this time because what he tells us I forget , I do n't know if you 'll be able to read it or not so |
| 8 | It had never been done before , but I had this premonition , and of course it proved true . ’ |
| 9 | Sometimes a placenta simply lifted out but I had this one away from the cotyledons one by one , returning every few minutes to the hot water and antiseptic to re-soap my aching arms . |
| 10 | But I had this instinct that you 'd have a better chance if you first spent some time with me — ’ |
| 11 | But I had this lifelong problem , you see . ’ |
| 12 | But I had this polyneuritis coming on and I gr gradually went paralysed . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I do n't know , ’ says Charles , ‘ but I met this girl in television the other evening , and she said people are going to be dropping off your Matterhorn thing like fleas off a dog . ’ |
| 14 | But I thought this was the New World . |
| 15 | ‘ But I thought this was Porteneil 531 . ’ |
| 16 | I thought that , and I 'm not an expert in but I thought this was a penetrating critique and all goes well for how the department is handling in a very difficult starting situation , a most important matter but there is Mr spoke to me about this paper and er I think we will have to hear what Mr had to say , I do n't know who 's going to report that . |
| 17 | ‘ Husbands and wives are expected to do everything together , but I felt this cost me my identity . |
| 18 | Robin was for consulting the trainer friend about the third race , but I felt this was tempting Providence too far . |
| 19 | ‘ But I began this without any hope whatsoever of winning the one thing I wanted above all others because I thought it was already given , and what I took in compensation merely made me want it more and resent its absence , because I kept loving you more and more . |
| 20 | Cathy had been assigned a tutor , she used to take her daughter along to a little school ( not her previous school ) and have lessons there in the staffroom : I never liked school before but I liked this as it was only half-past nine till half-past twelve so it was n't a long day and I could take Rebecca with me . |
| 21 | In literature I was going to offer both British and American authors , both prose and poetry , so that was no problem , though it did mean that I should have to read authors I disliked — Conrad , Hemingway , Woolf , Graham Greene , C.P. Snow — but I leavened this stodgy bunch with those I felt more in sympathy with , though they were not officially on the syllabus — Waugh , Firbank and Forster at their head . |
| 22 | I was never very good with my hands , but I did this with my school friend John McClenahan , who was much better and whose father had a workshop in their house . |
| 23 | Yeah I know but I bought this one erm thingy . |
| 24 | I went off to school camp for a few days when I was ten , and Mum suggested I took some sanitary towels with me in case my period started , but I dismissed this as silly and unnecessary . |
| 25 | I can not remember what I was expecting exactly , but I found this slightly disappointing . |
| 26 | But I found this in a file . |
| 27 | But I found this in our house , and I thought it might be yours ’ . |
| 28 | We had been wakened as on my first morning by the hideous 6 a.m. clattering of dustbin lids ; I had n't really expected a bugle but I found this noise intolerable . |