Example sentences of "but [adv] [conj] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But only after I 've made good use of them ! ’ |
| 2 | I thought that this was a painting I should n't discuss with Lili , but only when I had walked to the end of the gallery to look at an innocuous picture of a group of long-haired sheep did I ask myself what Robert had been doing in Marie Claire 's bedroom . |
| 3 | ‘ No — but only because I 've got a long drive ahead of me . |
| 4 | I 'm using it for Tottenham fair on third , second or third of er July , but only because I 've managed to get a P C enthusiastic about doing it and he 's gon na man it for the day . |
| 5 | No , nobody 's ever asked me , but I did say yes , but only because I want to believe it , I do n't care if the rest of you do n't , but I think its very important that you , you 've got the body that your born with and I think its very important just to go on with it and make the best of it . |
| 6 | well I 'm sorry but from where I 'm looking at it sixty two but not that I 've thought about it in any depth but |
| 7 | ‘ I very probably will , but not before I 've taken you ! ’ he gritted . |
| 8 | But not before I 've listened again to Incesticide ( Geffen ) by Nirvana . |
| 9 | to back him through thick and thin , but not before I had consulted the eight or nine senior legal Members ( some of them more distinguished at the Bar than myself ) and got their promises of support . |
| 10 | One day I will have my , own place , but not until I 've got some money behind me . " |
| 11 | And yet again he let the silence come , as if the silence would answer my questions better than he could himself ; but just when I had decided he would not answer , he spoke . |
| 12 | Not because I think I want to look young but just because I like to go to bed early . ’ |
| 13 | Meanwhile , I was struggling to unfasten myself , but just as I managed to pull my left arm free of the ropes , I felt a hundred arrows land on my free hand , and more arrows on my face and body . |
| 14 | It may sound a bit corny , but ever since I 've started to wear my traditional dress to school , I feel so much more comfortable . |
| 15 | ‘ My first aim has to be success with Llanelli but now that I 've accepted this position I 'm going to be totally committed to developing Welsh rugby ’ . |
| 16 | I wondered why McIllvanney had not told me that Rickie and Robin-Anne Crowninshield were drug addicts , then I realised that McIllvanney would not have told me anything that might have risked my acceptance of the charter , but now that I had learned that the twins had such a severe drug problem I was even less keen to take on the job . |
| 17 | ‘ But now that I have made myself available for England again it 's important to be part of this Championship . ’ |
| 18 | I 've had support from as far away as Boston , Massachusetts ( nowhere else , actually ) , for the retention of old Sir Wynkyn at the head of this column , but now that I have met the new fellow , commissioned at vast expense ( as the Editor has been at pains to point out ) , I feel he 's quite me . |
| 19 | What I took to be failures were not my failures but simply where I failed to fit in with what others expected of me . |
| 20 | I tried to be sick in the toilet , but even that I failed to do . |
| 21 | I said it was about the photographs , but even before I 'd finished talking , he gave me this message from Marius to … you know … to get lost . ’ |
| 22 | But even if I 've started bring the putter out to me on the course . |
| 23 | But even if I 'd thought , it would n't have seemed right to go poking and prying with her only just dead . |
| 24 | Fingers come round , things go in and out of my mouth but even when I venture to open my eyes I see nothing . |
| 25 | But then if I go zoom in here |
| 26 | But then when I 'd strengthened her up I said she 'd be alright for a few days . |