Example sentences of "[noun] but i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to do well for the club but I seem to be heading up a blind alley and maybe a move is the only solution . |
| 2 | We were to do it from Friday to Friday but I turned on the tapes on , when was it |
| 3 | We 're talking just under two hundred in Denmark and just under three hundred in Norway it may be cost-effective for us to do it ourselves with initial distribution from Stansted and maybe a local person doing any new distributions but I think in all honesty it will be as cheap for us |
| 4 | Yevgeniev , the King of the Boards , was leading into the home straight but I surged past him to take the gold medal . |
| 5 | The atmosphere was thick with tension but I looked at Mick and he glared back ; here was a guy ready to go for it and nobody was going to stop him . |
| 6 | Much more importantly , not only does it preserve the integrity of the people of Highfields but I guess in many ways it preserves the integrity of both the parties concerned while moving and supporting this particular amendment . |
| 7 | MacPhail said : ‘ I twisted my knee early in the second half but I stayed on the field . |
| 8 | Now I have considerable respect for the House of Commons ' Environment Committee but I think on this occasion they must have been tired and emotional when they wrote that . |
| 9 | no it 's not addressing the issue but I said in the longer term that could be one of the options |
| 10 | ‘ I would love another child but I have to be aware of the possibility that I 'm not going to be able to have one of my own , ’ she said . |
| 11 | Dinner parties are my dread but I go to them because my wife , Eileen , enjoys them . |
| 12 | So we 've been down there a few times but I said to you did n't I ? |
| 13 | Now of course that 's er er the story but I went to them afterwards you see . |
| 14 | Obviously I 'd be delighted if you choose to come this direction but I understand of course that you have other options to look at . |
| 15 | Sadly we 're seeing things too often which have expertise but I think on this occasion we should support the community arts team and not delete the item from the budget . |
| 16 | Battery life is stated is stated to be around 9 hours but I found to be less than this . |
| 17 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 18 | Vernon Malcolm , managing director of Malcolm Engineering , said : ‘ Almost all my staff earn above £3.40 an hour but I need to be able to dictate my own rates of pay . |
| 19 | I 'm Mrs and er the point I wan na make is that I understood when Jimmy Jones came here had two lovely full houses but I heard through the building through the grapevine that the members of the trust or council objected to him because he was racist his jokes and sexist . |
| 20 | I started back to the field but I fetched on round and went home instead . ’ |
| 21 | No we 're not actually losing money but I mean with Traidcraft we are getting to the low point where we put borrowed stock |
| 22 | No sample questions but I mean in terms of the syllabus that you 've got there is y'know you 're much better off just having an understanding of it . |
| 23 | Over the years I suppose I 've become known as a dotty naturalist but I try to be rational and I think it 's a pity the Greens are n't more practical . |
| 24 | Well it 's up to the managers but I agree with Stansted four times a day , I think we 're losing a lot of traffic because we have nothing between seven in the morning and three o'clock in the afternoon |
| 25 | I did n't know the person but I knew of her and I knew a friend of mine went to her , this is the one that did seven years . |
| 26 | ‘ I came in for a lot of criticism but I know in my heart that the good things I did there were very conveniently swept under the carpet at the time . ’ |
| 27 | They were chattering like a lot of parrots but I listened to what was said . |
| 28 | On the amendment side I am reluctant it does infringe on a local democracy but I agree with the Liberal Democrats , it 's a way forward and it 's a responsibility of all of us I I agree with Roger when he mentioned that Professor mentioned that this is the Labour party like usually always mentioned it is your budget when the budget is approved it is the whole county council budget every member should be responsible for it . |
| 29 | They gave me 26 quid this week but I rummaged through the shed and found a couple of things to stick in as prizes . |
| 30 | I now have good career prospects but I feel as if I 've lost my soul |