Example sentences of "but [conj] i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Oh , they 'd told me , but until I saw you I could n't believe it . |
| 32 | But you must believe that I kept you here not because I wanted to , but because I believed it my duty to those whom God ( or , well , the Company anyway ) has placed in my care . |
| 33 | I lit another cigarette from the stub of the first ( unheard-of for me ) — not because I wanted it but because I felt it might give an illusion of poise to walk into the Presence with a cigarette dangling carelessly from my lips . |
| 34 | I used to , I think , but since I met you and saw what she was likely to turn into , I seem to have gone off her . |
| 35 | That 's why I crawl down holes and chuck myself off cliffs and ride the bike — it 's been the only way I could feel alive , but since I met you I 've come alive in other ways , ways I 'd forgotten long ago . |
| 36 | Erm , the the other things is a little while ago she was erm , er , er you know , giving me bills like for about five or six pounds once for cleaning materials , and I queried this , because it 's quite a lot of money and erm , so she tells me that she buys expensive erm bleach and she uses a bottle of that a week , well she only comes in three times , and I said well , that 's very extravagant I said and told her what , but since I told her that . |
| 37 | But while I waved my tiny sword in the air , the King and his lords laughed loudly . |
| 38 | ‘ — anyway they never saw me , but before I went I heard her say , in a slinky sort of voice . |
| 39 | This is going to sound pretty stupid , but before I left I put one of the baby 's diapers in my kitbag . |
| 40 | The vehicle was originally a petrol but before I bought it the engine was replaced with a Gold Seal factory rebuilt diesel unit . |
| 41 | But after I left her , I realized how cruel I had been . |
| 42 | Yeah , but when I took her the toilet she wanted to go toilet |
| 43 | The person on the SIS switchboard was , I am sure , Liz of old , but when I announced who I was there was no acknowledgement of recognition on her part . |
| 44 | But when I rejected everything of this sort to set myself to one purpose , my soul was absorbed with love for my Maker . |
| 45 | But when I said I was doing it in Scotland , people just shivered . |
| 46 | But when I wrote it , nobody had realized anywhere in the world how unbelievably expensive it is to make an agreeable modern city , from managing traffic and removing rubbish to providing better education , housing and transport . |
| 47 | At the time I had no other reason to come home , but when I heard my mother only had a short time left it was the only place I wanted to be . ’ |
| 48 | I was told stories about him and I know that he was pretty much a hellraiser , but when I knew him he was just a really nice guy . |
| 49 | When I was at school I hated it , but when I left I wished I were back there . |
| 50 | That evening Clive could only grin and bear it , but when I told him I would n't be able to do the second summer course he was distinctly cool . |
| 51 | He tried to deny he 'd been to the village at first , but when I told him I 'd watched his every move he said he 'd gone for toothpaste and avoided our constables because he did n't think they 'd allow him to go out . ’ |
| 52 | All right , my silence was a mistake , ’ she said hastily , when he frowned , ‘ but when I told you you might not have accepted that Thomas is yours . ’ |
| 53 | ‘ But when I told my father I was ashamed of myself . |
| 54 | Mainly to get me out of the house , probably , but when I told my father I was going to be an actor he immediately thought I 'd turned gay . |
| 55 | But when I asked him how much of the land of the state of Israel might potentially have two claimants — an Arab and a Jew holding respectively a British mandate and an Israeli deed to the same property — he said he figure was accurate — and it should be remembered that over half of Israel in 1948 consisted of the Negev desert — then it suggested that Arabs owned a far greater proportion of that part of Palestine which became Israel than has previously been imagined . |
| 56 | But when I asked him where he had been all he said was , ‘ Go back to sleep . ’ |
| 57 | But when I asked him for permission he just agreed . |
| 58 | We had n't actually heard anything about this library experience but when I asked him he would n't say anything . |
| 59 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 60 | ‘ But when I asked her if she knew of anyone who might have a motive for killing Alain , it did n't seem to ring any bells . ’ |