Example sentences of "[adj] but i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hope you do n't mind me arriving without an appointment like this but I understood you had an Open Door policy . ’ |
| 2 | And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs |
| 3 | Derbyshire folk may query the authenticity of this but I defy them not to enjoy the results . |
| 4 | Especially when you 're not gon na like me for this because , you 're not gon na like me for this but I think one think about Foxy is he is two faced . |
| 5 | I think , I think Council is accepting this but I think it 's |
| 6 | ‘ Sorry about having to rush off like this but I promise I 'll be free tomorrow . ’ |
| 7 | Harvey was certainly reliable but I think he was also capable of pulling off the classic save ( as in the Leeds-Arsenal Cup final ) . |
| 8 | One that I thought wrong but I think I 've got it right . |
| 9 | May be I 'm wrong but I think it 's in a block . |
| 10 | Cos I used this look , I said that erm I 'd re I had represented his father in an accident case some years before and I was acquainted with the family in a casual way , and I said this may suggest , because he was saying you can make up and you can , this is a bit when you can use your imagination , and I said this may suggest that his father , you know he 'd like , because it the way he says that , I 'd represented his father , I was acquainted , you know maybe that he knows he 's used to that kind of erm behaviour from the family , you know , and he knows what Eddie 's like his fa I do n't know I might be completely wrong but I used my imagination there . |
| 11 | erm you know like for instance I mean erm I mean I suppose I feel British but I mean I do n't feel I have any very strong identification with with other British people because there are so many other people in the world speak English and erm often people from other countries who in many ways you identify with them more . |
| 12 | Nigel 's comment after first viewing the interior was , ‘ Well , it 's a trifle Hollywood baronial but I like it . ’ |
| 13 | I was at once interested but I did my best to suppress the instant flicker in my eyes . |
| 14 | He looked offended but I guessed his idea of discretion was swapping his length of lead pipe for a rubber truncheon . |
| 15 | I was gon na buy some but I thought you usually buy some so |
| 16 | She continued : ‘ I am 70 years old but I felt I must make this sacrifice for them , even though the constraints on me in the future are very great . ’ |
| 17 | Well it 's like er now that sometimes when you 've been doing the message you know you might talk a little bit different but I mean he 's had elocution lessons . |
| 18 | I got out of the car and ran to my front door , my mum answered the door , she looked quite different but I gave her a massive cuddle and went indoors . |
| 19 | Oh aye , it is painful but I thought it 's not going away so I 'd better go and see about it . |
| 20 | ‘ Morrissey had a wonderful twist of phrase ’ , says Muir today , ‘ His writing was really witty — really very clever but I found his personality fascinating which is why I decided to publish . ’ |
| 21 | London Irish coach George Hook , who has , in fact , made a player out of Higgins , believes there is a cultural problem : ‘ I do n't think our players drink very much but I imagine they drink more than their counterparts in other rugby countries . |
| 22 | A close friend , who said he was too frightened to reveal his name , has told the drinks trade newspaper , the Morning Advertiser : ‘ My life could be in danger if I say too much but I have my own idea what the murder is all about . |
| 23 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 24 | Did n't realize she was going quite so early but I suppose it 's hardly early anyway now . |
| 25 | It was not easy but I think it is for the best , in the long run . |
| 26 | You think I 'm paranoid but I tell you , man , there is something going on . |
| 27 | It 's sad but I mean I think miles away you sort of not quite so bad , traumatic . |
| 28 | There 's snooker at three but I think there 's a match of rugby of some sort . |
| 29 | Let's have a look at this year 's price list er it says nineteen ninety three but I say it 's carried on as far as we know er there are n't any at the moment increases . |
| 30 | about ten past one , well I had indigestion all night and I could feel it , and we 'd had our tea and I thought oh I do n't know , but I went to bed feeling alright and suddenly I woke up I thought oh my god I 'm gon na be sick , I come running down stairs , but you know I was , I was sick but I know I had n't finished and I 'd sat down and I was sick three times . |