Example sentences of "but [conj] i [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But where I go I do n't need them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | but if I find I want little bits an bobs what I need I just pop over the road . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | but but I mean I 've got prizes of |
| 6 | But before I go I said to the |
| 7 | ‘ — anyway they never saw me , but before I went I heard her say , in a slinky sort of voice . |
| 8 | This is going to sound pretty stupid , but before I left I put one of the baby 's diapers in my kitbag . |
| 9 | When I was at school I hated it , but when I left I wished I were back there . |
| 10 | I went there one Sunday , I thought we 'll have a meal but when I looked I said no chance ! |
| 11 | Soon I found a hut , which seemed to be empty , but when I entered I saw a pretty young woman asleep on the floor . |
| 12 | This is not supposed to be fiction , but as I write I find myself obliged to make a judgement about Leavitt . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Yes but as I 've I 've seen many a bus coming towards Norwood Gardens goes round the little and back out again . |
| 15 | But as I say I cope alright with them and as I say Doctor , I always seem as though I wake up with one , do you |
| 16 | These points should be should be looked into but as I say I take my hat off to infer at least having been loyalty to defend the inquest . |
| 17 | but as I say I 've sat and done this |
| 18 | But as I say I do n't do that kind of thing , I , I prefer to go away to the hills , |
| 19 | But as I say I do n't necessarily want to get involved in too much of the detail of the statistics of it , I simply want to make the overall point that we 've been told that there are three thousand unemployed . |
| 20 | But as I think I have said already , I can recall vividly the way the last of the daylight was coming through each open doorway and falling across the corridor in orange shafts . |
| 21 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |