Example sentences of "but [adv] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life . |
| 2 | When speaking to him I made no reference to the writer to the Hebrews , to the apostle Paul , to Moses or to the apostle Peter , but rather I concentrated on what the Lord Jesus Christ had to say on the subject . |
| 3 | Mother says money is n't important , but secretly I disagree with her . |
| 4 | So there is a flow of American source in , but less I think in terms of building a new factory on green field , a green site , and more of erm , buying an existing operation |
| 5 | ‘ They awarded me a seat behind a pillar for this French farce , but foolishly I moved to a place where I had a full view of the stage . |
| 6 | I discussed it with my department but basically I ended up doing it . |
| 7 | But so I sat in the Barbican up up at the around at the same level as the Royal Festival . |
| 8 | My reaction probably seems polite and restrained , but inside I explode with the feelings voiced by Hugh Macdiarmid : ‘ Scotland , small ? |
| 9 | I did not notice where I was walking , but soon I came to the station . |
| 10 | I 'll tell you what , me eyesight is n't great , but nevertheless I struggle with that . |
| 11 | The wind and rain beat down on me , and I fell down several times , but finally I arrived at a long , low house , standing rather isolated in the middle of the moor . |
| 12 | Normally I would have taken time to think , and said something polite , but somehow I answered at once , ‘ No , sir . ’ |
| 13 | Blonde Michelle says : ‘ My boyfriend Fisher Stevens will have to drag me kicking and screaming out of the house , but once I get on holiday I 'm sure I 'll enjoy it . |
| 14 | But once I got to the hospital and after the operation the doctor reassured me it was a straightforward and took forty-five minutes . |
| 15 | But once I got into this set of gay men , it took over my social life almost completely . |
| 16 | I made few friends , but once I adapted to this life I do not think I was particularly unhappy . |
| 17 | But like I fits in quite well . |
| 18 | But still I said to er Con well , oh well I said to Irene I did , I said it 's good for er . |
| 19 | Before without really knowing it , I was just preparing for that one lesson to get through that one lesson , but partly I think as a matter of survival in this situation , because I had never taught children before and really did n't have an overview at that point . |
| 20 | But later I returned to the subject . |
| 21 | It was probably some arrangement of S– and R — 's , but whenever I came into a room where they were , they trickled out ! |
| 22 | We have made as we intended to do , if you remember we er advertised widely in accordance with our equal opportunities policy , er for that post but also I think in accordance with equal opportunity we wanted to give people the er chance to develop their range of skills internally for some of the er lower grade posts and therefore er initially the other posts er have been advertised internally and we filled the temporary er assistant administration erm post er internally . |
| 23 | It was an extra cost but also I learned in the end like the top earners do er and I guess I was mister average because I was coming in to do this job not that one , erm I I decided or worked out that I could do two or three deals in a day between a certain hour . |
| 24 | I wondered aloud whether it was possible to buy one of their bulletproof vests and whether there were trousers to match ; but really I wanted to be away from this place where even my pure anger had been stolen from me . |
| 25 | ‘ I used to think that you should always be yourself but now I like to be made up , smile and look like a woman should , ’ preens Fay . |
| 26 | But now I feels as if I 've got a sh a name of a doctor |
| 27 | ‘ But now I come to what was really the main point argued before us . |
| 28 | Said slowly , but now I realised like someone acting concern — the first syllable went amateurishly low — not genuinely shocked and disgusted . |
| 29 | Death 's mercy has held off all too long , but now I swear to you this is ending . |
| 30 | One recent exresident , Kenny Taylor , who himself grew up as a son of a criminal in the East-End , says , ‘ Since becoming a Christian , I have passed my driving test — I was driving at the age of ten , but now I drive with tax and insurance ! ’ |