Example sentences of "but [conj] i [vb base] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's years since I 've been up here , ’ Vitor said , ‘ but if I remember correctly there 's a good vantage point another mile on . ’ |
| 2 | But if I bring in my camera it means |
| 3 | It ai n't a street or nothing , but if I get there I might recognise summat and then know where I am . |
| 4 | Michael still lives with his mum and I live with my mum , but if I sleep up my house , he sleeps up my house . |
| 5 | I said but when I come here there are cars everywhere , I says on on the picture |
| 6 | In that trance-like state we drift apart , still staring , but when I turn aside it 's as if we snapped a silken cord . |
| 7 | She regards me with suspicion , but when I hold out my hand , she takes it . |
| 8 | Yes When I put on red one day , I mean I do n't think I have anything in red do I , but when I put on my clothes in the morning |
| 9 | But when I get there I ca n't find no way out . |
| 10 | My mum and dad deny that they make them a brew , but when I get home there 's usually 20 dirty cups outside the door . ’ |
| 11 | But when I go out she 's the only thing I talk about , she 's more important . |
| 12 | Yeah I keep , when I I I always scrape the vegetables sometimes but when I do though I keep cutting my fingers ! |
| 13 | I imagine he is impressed and that he will invite us for a coffee after , but when I look again he is gone . |
| 14 | I mean we talk about the triple-one but when I say two-fold there is , I feel , the deeply rooted oppression of centuries of gender discrimination , the oldest form of discrimination . |
| 15 | The half-hour is up , but as I turn off my tape recorder , Lord Archer shows no signs of wanting to finish . |
| 16 | exactly , it 's the only way you can do it and I would n't do it any other way , because I do n't bel I do n't , I do n't think it 's fair , if I was using the phone continually I 'd get rather annoyed , I mean that I 'd , they 'd have a right to be annoyed , but as I do n't I think it 's ridiculous so I 'm not hardly surprised at all , so I think it 's stupid as you say , but there you go . |
| 17 | I began ‘ Great Expectations ’ with a very negative view towards it but as I read on I began to really enjoy it . |
| 18 | And you know this brings another important aspect up which is very important about communications , erm you know we 've jollied along talking about what communication is making sure people know you know what you want etcetera etcetera etcetera but also do n't forget that different people can have different perceptions of the same same things but as I say here we are we sat here we done we 've done about an hour an hour and a half on written communications and yet you know when we passed the papers around it has n't been too bad but there has been different things that people have gone for both in the writing of these reports and both in the marking of them as well . |