Example sentences of "but [adv] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But now I think of these ideas as coming from a principle far more subtle . |
| 32 | But now I think of G.P. and I compare him to Piers . |
| 33 | I know it 's my fault she 's here , I suppose in a few years time I 'll wish I 'd been here , but now I want to be out enjoying myself . |
| 34 | But now I wanted to be somewhere that had a future and no past to carry . |
| 35 | It 's for a , a couple of weeks there it was n't too bad , but now I feel as if it 's . |
| 36 | But now I work on matters literary ( litererry ) |
| 37 | But sometimes I push in front to balance her lightness , dreaminess . |
| 38 | I know they 're only kids , they do n't really mean it , but sometimes I shout at them . ’ |
| 39 | I do n't listen , I mean sorry , I 've got a frog in my throat , erm like , she tells me not to stay on the phone too long , but sometimes I have to , okay , not , not necessarily just as a conversation , but , homework and stuff |
| 40 | But sometimes I want to be pampered like royalty — without having to pay a king 's ransom . |
| 41 | I used at times to feel somewhat worried when she would play the supremely confident coquette with me and I would be enthralled by her charms , but then I came to the conviction , some time ago , that such moments of relatedness could only be nourishing for her developing personality as well as delightful to me . |
| 42 | Well I was thinking of walking home from the centre of the town but then I thought to hell with it . |
| 43 | But then I thought on a while and raised my finger . |
| 44 | thought erm that the tissue was growing but then I looked at it last night and it was a bit |
| 45 | But then I asked for just one spell of six months as a locum in some exotic place . |
| 46 | Now I can understand that isolation , but then I felt like the stray cat of Egypt , not only unloved but undeserving of all regard . |
| 47 | I have to go back into hospital before Christmas but then I hope to be at home . |
| 48 | But then I return to the knifeblade , flexing gently under my weight as I try to shift my centre of gravity as far as possible over my feet to protect the belay . |
| 49 | When some boys at the school put excrement under the headmaster 's chair , he contrasted the culprits unfavourably with true school sportsmen : ‘ Last Friday I was feeling pretty low when I found out about this lot … but then I went to football on Saturday , there were several lads and teachers there , playing their hearts out or giving up their time just for the school , and then I thought , ‘ Perhaps , it 's not so bad after all . ’ |
| 50 | But then I think of you , and I feel sane again . |
| 51 | Our police are so busy trying to catch the culprits , but then I read in the Press last week of a young man causing £60,000 of damage by graffiti and getting off free because it would be a waste of public money to put him on probation . |
| 52 | Oh they bag something terrible but then I say at the price I 'm not gon na buy them , I 'm not , but in the Dodger 's there 's not one small in any colour |
| 53 | But then I arrive outside the house . |
| 54 | But then I found in the same week in the relatively liberal UK magazine Time Out several references to women as ‘ chicks ’ and ‘ broads ’ . |
| 55 | But how I longed to be gallant , as they say ; to ask her if I might kiss her on both cheeks if I gave her my two violets . |
| 56 | Whether it was advertised or what but how I came to be there I would n't know . |
| 57 | Erm I 've played with Clyde Ladies for about five years but previously I played with Stewarton . |
| 58 | Our modern parental investment individualistic view would n't allow you to make that error , instead you 'd say you know you 've got ta look at the costs and benefits of the mother too and perhaps there are benefits to mothers in actively testing as it were their offspring , erm rather than just passively er accepting that they 're gon na have to be mothers and gon na have to get on with it and again you see , er I would er and this may have been the big mistake I made last year , er but again I stand by my er view on this and it 's a perfectly defensible one , erm again I think those who say that abortion is unnatural and kind of erm offends against er you know nature , are wrong . |
| 59 | Lunch was an avocado and prawn sandwich and a carton of mango juice , which I admit were a bit out of character but otherwise I looked for all the world like a real musher . |
| 60 | To conclude the story I do n't know who pegged the match but afterwards I talked to one of the locals who told me they never peg the stretch where I was . |