Example sentences of "but [conj] i " in BNC.

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1 But where I thought of this part of the game as the worst , Ken positively savoured it .
2 Mark : I ca n't say that to the same extent , but where I live at the moment I know a lot of people within five minutes ' walk and there are ten or fifteen gay people I know who live locally ; there are people I can visit without any great effort whatsoever , whom I 'm likely to meet in the shops .
3 But where I go I do n't need them .
4 But where I 'm puzzled a little bit by Terry , is about five minutes ago Terry said , people have got to go and beg and
5 So , but where I know it is a bit difficult with clothes because a market stall erm you do n't , you do n't normally get a chance to try the clothes on erm and you 're never absolutely sure are these clothes , is this garment going to fit or not ?
6 Well I , he lived at Stowmarket for years but then I heard not so long ago that they had moved to Ipswich but where I do n't know but they must be , whether he 's than I have now I do n't know either .
7 That was very early on in my filming if anyone had asked me I would have said ‘ I 'm always on the move , you know I never sit down in a lesson , and I do n't sit down but where I was on the move was in a very limited space so just having the camera at the back on that table , just having it still showed me so much about what was going on in the room and how you use the time …
8 But where I am is in something of a dilemma , because if we do n't recruit anybody now it seems to me unlikely that we will actually manage to reduce our times , that would in tern would mean we 'd actually want more staff next year erm , so I have set out a series of options .
9 erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ?
10 Because it was before just before we moved the offices but it 's kicking around somewhere in an envelope with my name on the front of it but where I would n't know .
11 That , that 's open to the general public but where I stand you have to have a membership card to go in there now , and er you pay two pound before the season started and er local traders give you a discount and things erm it 's just one way of er segregating the supporters if you like , but there does n't seem to be so much trouble since they 've done this , but at the same time there does n't seem to be as much atmosphere
12 But so me were there in earnest support of that cause .
13 I said that did I share his belief I should not contemplate what I do , but that I did not share it .
14 He seemed so pleased with himself that I could n't help saying that I should mind them very much myself but that I had no objection to his wearing them — a view which I believed surprised him .
15 In summer it is not so dense but that I can find the blackbird wherever it sings among its branches and not in Winter so agile but that its changing patterns are conspicuous against the sky , its sound an appreciable susurration using the harp strings of the wind .
16 Or was it just another side of his character I had not seen before , but that I may have suspected was always there ?
17 WINNIN' When the Royal Sussex hospital called my wife Marlies after the bomb during the 1984 Tory Conference , they told her there had been a ‘ little accident ’ but that I was OK .
18 It was n't only that I could n't lift myself off the ground but that I was stuck to it in some way .
19 But that I am forbid
20 From being a child to being an adult this apparent choice changed to the overriding , deep-rooted belief that I was actually a boy , that nature had somehow made a mistake biologically but that I was really a boy .
21 He replied that there was n't , but that I should have asked for Operations when I got to Porto .
22 please would you tell Bill I will not be staying at the same hotel as the owners , and that I will again not be going to the president 's lunch , but that I will be at the races , even if he does n't see me . ’
23 I am not saying that my trusting God was ‘ all up to me ’ , but that I had to see that all of me was involved in trusting God .
24 Conversely , to say ‘ It hurts ’ conveys the information , not merely that I spontaneously flinch from the sensation , but that I am sharply aware of it .
25 But that I raised it knowing you hate it .
26 A further discussion with Sir Henry led us to agree that the telegram must be delivered , but that I should take it in person to the Editor and see if something less embarrassing could be agreed .
27 With that she saw me off with an invitation to visit her the next day after school but that I was to tell my parents in case they were worried where I was .
28 I replied that I was sorry to hear it but that I might return to him later , and enclosed a copy of Pursuit .
29 I think that people would be justified in rebuking me for deceiving them as to my whereabouts , but that I would no more have actually lied than if I had thrown my voice and said ‘ Cooee ‘ .
30 By this I do n't mean that I can cure the patient , but that I can cope with the situation .
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