Example sentences of "but [conj] i [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But where I go I do n't need them . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | But that I raised it knowing you hate it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is n't too bad actually but and I hope you know |
| 6 | but if I find I want little bits an bobs what I need I just pop over the road . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not all that interested in voting , but if I do I think I 'll vote for Mr Field , but I 'm not sure , ’ said Mr Bingham . |
| 8 | I mean our motion you can do with it what you will but like I say we have actually aimed to actually get something which recognises all party support for the Children Act and recognises concern about the funding . |
| 9 | but but I mean I 've got prizes of |
| 10 | But before I go I said to the |
| 11 | ‘ — anyway they never saw me , but before I went I heard her say , in a slinky sort of voice . |
| 12 | This is going to sound pretty stupid , but before I left I put one of the baby 's diapers in my kitbag . |
| 13 | ‘ They knock on my door and say they want to pull on a black and white shirt , but when I ask them to prove it some ca n't , ’ said Keegan . |
| 14 | When I was at school I hated it , but when I left I wished I were back there . |
| 15 | ‘ At first I could not believe it , but when I saw it hanging on the wall of this house , I was flabbergasted , ’ he said . |
| 16 | I went there one Sunday , I thought we 'll have a meal but when I looked I said no chance ! |
| 17 | I do n't think I really expected to see it , but when I did it amused me to follow you , and when you stopped in Wexford it was idle curiosity that prompted my behaviour , nothing else . ’ |
| 18 | Well erm eight hundred but when I did it wrote it into normal terms like six point sixty four with one two three four noughts |
| 19 | Soon I found a hut , which seemed to be empty , but when I entered I saw a pretty young woman asleep on the floor . |
| 20 | ‘ He is not in the least like any of Henrietta 's children , but when I see him laugh and run he makes me think of them , being nearer the little one 's age than my Penini . |
| 21 | ‘ I was getting to the point of putting it behind me , but when I conceived everything changed . |
| 22 | This is not supposed to be fiction , but as I write I find myself obliged to make a judgement about Leavitt . |
| 23 | I know but as I said they have you by the short and curlies . |
| 24 | We have n't been trying hard to persuade the Garrimperos to adopt different technologies , more modern technologies that would avoid the contamination of the mercury , but as I said I believe the only way of reaching this goal is if we can organize the Garrimperos to have er a kind of er institutionalized way of exploiting gold , not the sort of gold rush i that is being on and on On and off in Brazil for two centuries right now . |
| 25 | Yes but as I 've I 've seen many a bus coming towards Norwood Gardens goes round the little and back out again . |
| 26 | And unfortunately second half it did n't come right but as I say we 've got a point out of it so we still you know , kept ourselves unbeaten for a game or two , so we 've just got to try keep it going and take it from there . |
| 27 | But as I say what do you feel as as students do you feel that you have the facilities here that could be improved on or or |
| 28 | Someone asked me whether , I thought it 'd be a bit of fun But as I say nobody knows who you are , or what you 've said or anything so it does n't matter does it ? |
| 29 | Then he 'd come red and you 'd know that a erm a bombing raid was imminent , you see , and er er when I look back you know , but as I say everything has changed so much . |
| 30 | but this one seems to of gone haywire , oh does he go , but as I say she 's changed the bedrooms you see , he used to be on the far end |