Example sentences of "but [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I did n't say I wanted to go to bed with you , but that I wanted to make love to you ; a subtle difference , ’ he chided , ‘ and I do n't know why you should look so disbelieving — you have a lovely supple body … |
| 32 | If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar , this is my answer : Not that I lov 'd Caesar less , but that I lov 'd Rome more . |
| 33 | He looked at my work and said I had talent , but that I needed " earnest practice in drawing " , to which I wholly agree : He also said he would be glad to take me as his " chela " but that my name and work must go before the council of professors of the Academy , which meets next Thursday , 17th inst. and that if they accepted me I could start work on the following Monday , 21st inst . |
| 34 | If she should by chance ever read these words , I think she would confirm not merely that this was how he spoke but that I have not misrepresented her reactions . |
| 35 | I do n't know why I tell you this , but that I have been exceedingly moved and pleased by Jane Eyre . |
| 36 | Wednesday are looking rather lowly , but that I feel is mainly due to early season woes , and as , I am assured from relatives down the M1 , they have a much easier 2nd half of the season . |
| 37 | I do n't know about you but once I pick these Mills and Boone books up I ca n't stop reading the flipping things . |
| 38 | ‘ You have to motivate horses like these , but once I 've got Ghofar 's blood up , we should be cruising . |
| 39 | The dress is very nice but once I 've got it on I realize I 'm just not in the mood for it . |
| 40 | Yeah , that 's right well we 've got ta put them round anyway but once I 've got that on I can take the st steps in then no , I shall leave those there I 'll just go and have a look at the other frame . |
| 41 | But once I got out of the splitting shop out into the dry , handling leather rather than skins , er it were terrific , absolutely terrific . |
| 42 | But once I have passed my test , I am not allowed out on the road without insurance . |
| 43 | But once I have you , by God , that will be the end of it ! ’ |
| 44 | But once I have the thing and make it available , and say here is the gift that I promised it 's yours , it 's available , then , all you have to do is come and take it . |
| 45 | But once I think we were , we were going in a mad rush er , each saw his responsibilities for that word , and that 'll do , and then we 'd say yes , and stuck it here . |
| 46 | But once I decide that 's settled I 'd notice it cause you could n't seem to get down . |
| 47 | But although I said I was reasonably Spartan , this bare Nissen hut and my little windy bivouac pall a bit at times . |
| 48 | I knew the ones she meant ; she meant the square transparent boiled sweets which when she was a child would have been weighed out in pennyworths from a tall glass jar , but although I searched in grocers ’ shops and sweet shops high and low , all I could find were wrapped oval-shaped acid drops . |
| 49 | But although I asked myself the question , I knew the answer . |
| 50 | But although I chose it virtually at random , this does not make it ‘ typical ’ , any more than the horrific Bihar gaol described by Sinha ( 1978 ) in which 143 people had died within three years . |
| 51 | But although I relaxed a little in the hours I spent with them , I never really felt comfortable — and at all times I felt compelled to keep eye contact … and a small notebook strategically placed . |
| 52 | Those Marshalls sure sound great , ’ but although I 'd done the work on them it did n't really help me a lot . |
| 53 | We 'd been trying to see someone there for months , but although I 'd delivered petitions , I 'd never managed to get through the front door . |
| 54 | But although I wrote in my diary that I wished I were dead , I never seriously considered death — suicide — as a solution to my problems . |
| 55 | I listened for some sound of other prisoners in the building but although I thought I heard the locking and unlocking of other doors the only voices were those of the guards . |
| 56 | I am not sure what the hon. Member for Worsley ( Mr. Lewis ) is trying to say , but although I made an offer to his hon. Friend the Member for Alyn and Deeside , the hon. Gentleman did not come to see me . |
| 57 | She paused and added thoughtfully , ‘ It 's strange , but although I 've stayed down here a lot I 've never met him , but perhaps that 's because his wife was an invalid and he devoted all his time to her . |
| 58 | But although I played lead for a long time in the group I never cite lead players like Clapton or Beck . |
| 59 | But although I found it impossible not to be moved by the vibes and hype of enthusiastic publicity people and charming sales teams , there is no getting away from the fact that it is going to be a very tough year , with too many major titles to be able to do justice to them all ; and I do n't see any real evidence of anyone pruning their lists . |
| 60 | The plates still had some food on them but although I found some meat , it had a strange gloopy liquid on it so I gave it a miss . |