Example sentences of "but i [adv] [verb] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did , but I slowly shook my head . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I 'm the same player I was before my injury in the FA Cup final , but I just use my head a little bit more and try to get more people involved in the game . |
| 3 | But I just thought my mother wanted to be specially nice to me . |
| 4 | I 've tried most of the guitar synths and stuff , but I just prefer my instrument : it 's very human and it makes the right noise . |
| 5 | I 'd give it a pat if I had the strength , cos I really like dogs , but I just turn my head and look at it instead . |
| 6 | I do n't know about the Stanley No. 45 , but I just put my Record Multi-plane upside down in the vice and pass the wood over the ‘ sharp end ’ . |
| 7 | A television play or four weeks away in repertory was OK , but I finally lost my agent when I turned down an interview for a job in June , ‘ because I 'll be picking the gooseberries ’ . |
| 8 | I was aware that austerity had taken over in England and that a lot of things were shoddy , but I desperately wished my wife had something better to wear . |
| 9 | The piano is now moveable and appears to have seven keys that strike a note , but I always take my tambour , and am eternally grateful to Francis and Rita for including in our training , advice on ways of accompanying movement without a piano . |
| 10 | I was flying economy , but I too needed my fuel . |
| 11 | But I really wanted my pennyworth . |
| 12 | I , I am a single parent and I was over forty when I had my one and only son now the father walked out but I never deprived my son of knowing who is father was or what he was . |
| 13 | I am excited and absorbed in my purpose to return to the inn but I never find my way there again . |
| 14 | I must have been about nine , but I still remember my dad putting his back to the door , after Pikey had gone home from a seance . |
| 15 | But I still have my mother , three sisters , a sort of sister-in-law , and four nieces . |
| 16 | — but I still have my wedding-ring |