Example sentences of "but [conj] i [vb past] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once I got out of the splitting shop out into the dry , handling leather rather than skins , er it were terrific , absolutely terrific . |
| 2 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 3 | They could n't make emergency payments themselves , but if I went down to the social security office … |
| 4 | I feel I could play , but if I broke down during the game I would be letting down the team and myself . |
| 5 | I was unable to share his joy , not particularly because my home team had been held to a draw , but because I fell headlong into the tent , throwing a pan of boiling rice everywhere . |
| 6 | Although these omissions suited me at the time , I have since found them incredible to the point of doubting my own powers of recollection , but when I checked recently with my sister , she confirmed their accuracy . |
| 7 | But when I ran away from the orphanage , I was so nearly trapped again . |
| 8 | But when I got back to Norwich , I started to cry . |
| 9 | Max and I were delighted with the result , but when I got back to the hotel I was taken violently ill and had to be put to bed . |
| 10 | But when I got back to the agency this morning , the place had been cleared out . ’ |
| 11 | But when I got back to England there was a picture in one of the papers . ’ |
| 12 | But when I went up to er , was called as a witness I , this was I amazed me , the Jury Judge said I wish to affirm , he wanted to know why . |
| 13 | The diary entries for the Easter holidays are even sparser than usual , but when I went back to school I had lost yet another two pounds . |
| 14 | But when I went down to the shop |
| 15 | But when I looked again at the taut group riveted to the game , now not even speaking , I had my doubts . |
| 16 | But when I bent down on some pretext and could see into his face it seemed possible that he was laughing at himself as well as flustered . |
| 17 | ‘ But when I found out about his background , I just had to blow it out of the water . |
| 18 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 19 | The two hind feet hit me almost simultaneously but as I sailed backwards through the door I remember thinking quite clearly that the one on the chest had made contact fractionally before the one on the abdomen . |
| 20 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 21 | But as I rode out with the nation 's most prestigious hunt , I found its members the model of politeness . |
| 22 | Klondyke Trading Co are responsible for providing a variety of straps for both the home market and the world , but as I found out on a recent visit there 's more to making one guitar strap than meets the eye , let alone producing thousands . |