Example sentences of "but i could " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew what I wanted , but I could n't find it . |
| 2 | Hitting me with her little fists , but I could n't get the smile off my face . |
| 3 | I wanted to but I could n't . |
| 4 | The floor was a bit damp but I could put up with that . |
| 5 | Aisha 's insistent words in the grain store , as she shook her gold earrings and the bangles on her wrist , urging me to stay at home , but I could only gaze at her shoes and marvel at how exactly they matched her handbag . |
| 6 | But I could n't see the moon or the stars , only the gloomy sky . |
| 7 | My dad took me to watch Newcastle when I was about 10 but I could n't see because of all the people standing in front of me . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was a tiredness resulting from the previous 14 pitches , but I could see no way of free climbing it at less than E5 , and I was n't good enough for that , not now . |
| 9 | There was a figure on either side of him but I could only see Charlie Vaughan . |
| 10 | ‘ I wanted to kill you , but I could not . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Well , ’ said Margaret laughing , ‘ I wanted to kill you too , but I could not either . ’ |
| 12 | Clare is out for my blood of course , poor thing , but I could n't really help that . |
| 13 | ‘ I love you dearly and I love the house but I could n't live here if I am not wanted . ’ |
| 14 | But I could never really make enough . |
| 15 | After he told them about this , they sent one letter from Siam covered with stamps : ‘ Those would have kept me in The Autocar for ever , but I could n't bear to part with the envelope . ’ |
| 16 | But I could n't go home in the dark ! ’ |
| 17 | He said it was quieter in there , but I could n't see the lay-by from his room and after a bit I went outside . |
| 18 | Chief Inspector , I understand what you 're getting at , but I could n't ask the man where he got his money from , could I ? |
| 19 | I do n't feel too tired , but I could do with summat to eat . |
| 20 | At this moment two people grabbed me to try to make me get up but I could not get up , so they kicked me and stamped all over me from head to toe . |
| 21 | It might have been a Seiko , but I could n't be sure . |
| 22 | I work in fashion certainly but I could work in many things . |
| 23 | Being in effect a doll , Blackeyes was as dumb as she was beautiful but I could n't have put it better myself . |
| 24 | Everyone else had gone to Japan and I was still in New York trying desperately to get a visa for Russia but I could n't get one , so I convince Tony deFries that if I went to Japan and went to the Russian Embassy in Tokyo , they 'd be so confused by an American applying for a visa in Tokyo 's Embassy that i could fake it and get one , and he said I was welcome to try . |
| 25 | I could do now , with the knowledge I have , but I could n't do it then . |
| 26 | But I could not be content just to walk alongside a pretty one and hear her giggling . |
| 27 | I would n't have minded but I could n't get it in the hole after that . |
| 28 | They showed promise and were not as mediocre as all the other stuff inflicted upon me at Leeds , but I could not see any real future for Robin as a poet . |
| 29 | But I could be both Verlaine and Rimbaud . |
| 30 | Those daily walks with her helped to calm my mind a little , but I could not bear the thought of writing poems again , not without Dana . |