Example sentences of "but [adv] [adv] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But luckily enough I got up and walked round the back and I could just see the lights on in the living room downstairs . |
| 2 | ‘ But right now I prefer freedom and independence . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You 're forthright , strong , ’ Claire said , ‘ capable of great things , like most Aries women , but right now I sense that you 're not particularly happy , and certainly there 's some indication that a lot of your unique drive has been squandered away . |
| 4 | I have tried to like these wines , but so often I have been disappointed . |
| 5 | If you apply to the fund at the beginning of the month you 'll likely to get something , but hard luck if you apply later on in the month , but that she 's taken up as an open letter to Jerry Hayes , but so far I have n't seen it in the press . |
| 6 | I 've been here three months but so far I have n't seen anything — I have n't had a chance , I 've had hardly any time off . |
| 7 | Q. I would like to grow the beautiful Indian fern but so far I have been unsuccessful . |
| 8 | On my machine at least the re-programming does n't work for shifted keys and what you actually get is the 2 key producing the S. I have fiddled around with different forms of getting ANSI.SYS to do it but so far I have failed . |
| 9 | After the lecture , every day threatened refutation , but so far I seem to have got away with it . |
| 10 | I know I 'm no saint but not even I have sunk to quite such depths of villainy — even if you find that hard to believe ! ’ |
| 11 | The behaviourists ' answer would be that I have in the past been reinforced by coffee when I have gone to C , but not when I have gone to B. This could well be correct . |
| 12 | ‘ I laugh but not like I used to and at times like birthdays and anniversaries I have such a lonely feeling . |
| 13 | Come on , it 's all very well in the mornings but not now I do n't think . |
| 14 | But somehow well I do n't know , things did n't seem to work out . |
| 15 | I used to be able to , but just lately I 've found it 's impossible ; once I 'm awake I start worrying about the silliest things . ’ |
| 16 | But just now I think it 's just about right , for er just about right for er using . |
| 17 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
| 18 | There appear to be mountings for the transformer but once again I suspect that these are best ignored for safety reasons . |
| 19 | Mr Wogan arrived and had a few words with me — and everybody else — but once again I do n't recall what we talked about . |
| 20 | But once inside I become a snarling , aggressive potential criminal . |
| 21 | For years I could n't catch the bloom on a child or young girl 's cheeks , but more recently I managed to capture this with one stroke of the knife . |
| 22 | Of course he was n't always there because frequently there were notes from his mother to say that he had earache or something , but later on I realized , of course , that those notes had been faked , the same as the notes that I had sent to school from my mother several generations before that . |
| 23 | For the moment , my mother still recognises me but later on I do n't know how she 'll take it . |
| 24 | At first I was angry at him , frightened for him , but now suddenly I get this rush of joy , watching him race out there into the cold level space of the stilled river , free and warm and vivacious in that smoothed and frozen silence . |
| 25 | ‘ Sure they tried , they tried real hard , but back then I did n't |
| 26 | ‘ My body was that of a man but deep down I had the heart of a woman . |
| 27 | ‘ I tried to hate you but deep down I knew I was lost and that , however many lovers you 'd previously had , I was going to be the last one . |
| 28 | ‘ No , to be truthful , that 's what I told him , but deep down I do n't know . |
| 29 | My automatic response might just have had something to do with the fire that the Factory had predicted , but deep inside I knew that that was n't all there was to it , and that there was more to come . |
| 30 | I felt pleased of course , but strangely enough I did n't feel as elated as perhaps I should have done : not as elated as I had been after setting my British record in Madrid . |