Example sentences of "but [subord] i [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then the first day I stop , I 've usually got flu , I 'm exhausted , I ca n't get out of bed , I feel rotten , but if I keep going for like , three weeks to a month , just on six hours , that 's fine , but the first day I stop I 'm like , in bed for a week ill usually . |
| 2 | There is a closing sequence now the reason that you were able to close in the manner that you did with that bloke is a natural ability , but if I 've said to you to teach somebody else it you would say I can not do it , but I ca n't teach somebody else , because you 're not actually aware of the sequence that you 're working , can you see what I 'm saying to you ? |
| 3 | But if I have to qualify for the Open , I 'll qualify . |
| 4 | ‘ I go to a meeting , have some really good points to make , but because I get paralysed about speaking out I remain silent . |
| 5 | Vaclav Havel , Czechoslovak President since December 1989 , announced on April 14 that he would seek a further term as President " not because I want to be President at any cost … but because I want to contribute towards pushing through certain values " . |
| 6 | But since I 've had to , and since the old place is so empty , how about it ? |
| 7 | But after I had waited in vain for six months , I lost hope , and felt low indeed . |
| 8 | But when I let go of these weapons , how can I fight for my people ? ’ |
| 9 | Part of me agreed , but when I thought settling with Ellen I 'd get this panic rising from my gut . |
| 10 | But when I 've paid for a newspaper I expect all the pieces that I 've paid for . |
| 11 | Well , you 'll just have to tell them that it 's missing but when I 've paid for a newspaper I expect to get all the pieces that I 've paid for and I 've already paid for mine , so this I 'll take . |
| 12 | Well I 'm making arrangements to pay mine er but when I get paid on Friday it were going through , got ta pay him twenty five pounds and then fifteen pounds every fortnight thereafter and it 'll take seven months to pay but that 's all he can get off us . |
| 13 | But when I started walking across the table to the farmer , his youngest son , a boy of about ten , picked me up by the legs . |
| 14 | Sixty-seven , but as I 'd said to Ruth Cohen , lively with it . |
| 15 | and as you say if you go to college , but as I 've said to Penny you know you want to try and find out if there are any courses that are going , if you want to get back |
| 16 | But as I have said to you , the Banbury School 's decision to opt out was not taken on the grounds of the education offered in this county . |
| 17 | Teaching about computers is important , both technically and from the role they 're going to have in the children 's lives , but as I have said before the main interest , from an educational point of view , is using it as one would use a video tape or an overhead projector or a blackboard and a piece of chalk . |
| 18 | We hope very much it will be useful , but as I tried to stress at the beginning , we very much see the problems of developing countries , which we in the Institute are working on , as part of the problems of what 's going wrong in the world at the moment , in which we in Britain very much have a stake too . |