Example sentences of "but [adv] i [vb base] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wore this dress to work today , because we had a meeting , but mostly I wear what I want . |
| 2 | The most moving thing that ever happened to them , they say — but secretly I think it is all to do with stealing thunder from the women . |
| 3 | Oh yes , yes , no , I think I think that er and I think that you know that particularly the the Mirror Group Newspapers Trustees doing a doing an excellent job you know , but we have n't really got into the into the stock lending er arrangements , but the , the cases those I think are particularly you know important to us you see , because there is a there 's another hundred and fifty nine or a hundred and fifty three million I think of , of writs out at the moment and those I think are the ones where we 're going to really see whether the , the banks dig their heels in or not , you know , I think we 've , we 're rea very early stage , but basically I mean we 've still got eighty , getting on for eighty per cent of the missing monies still missing and we 're into our third , third year . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm told they might need me for a bit of PR work , but basically I gather I 'm going to be the technician permanently with the team . ’ |
| 5 | But so I mean I think the case for Regional Government is definitely there and I 'm surprised by Councillor , I 'm surprised that you said your group is n't seeing it . |
| 6 | Most of Lot of us have lost a lot of times , but So I thank you again . |
| 7 | Mr did n't wan na work tomorrow really though cos I 've got ta be I 've got ta meet that new dentist tomorrow but obviously I owe him . |
| 8 | ‘ But personally I think he 's split , now his organisation 's blown apart . |
| 9 | I have only dipped into it here and there , but already I know it will displace the Tales of Grimm as my favourite book . |
| 10 | But normally I get them off the market . |
| 11 | But anyway I know it takes up a lot of time and a lot of our columns . |
| 12 | But anyway I mean it 's all part of the picture . |
| 13 | But some of the children there erm , somebody must have been very , very , optimistic because we put a lot , a lot of presents in there , but anyway I think it was a superb night , and , and , and the meeting of er , to get together in the fire station afterwards , quite , in the Price Room was very good . |
| 14 | — Besides , you 'll find , that their Couples were never marry 'd : — But yonder I see my Coridon , and a sweet Swain it is Heaven knows ; — Come , Dorinda , do n't be angry , he 's my Husband , and your Brother ; and between us both is he not a sad Brute ? |
| 15 | And in the twelfth race , the six forty five erm West Mead Ricky erm adversely drawn in trap four , but nevertheless I think he 's a little bit better class , so that 's the fourth leg of our Radio Oxford yankee erm West Mead Ricky , that 's the ten twenty . |
| 16 | I hear , I , I , I think there is a tendency with the County Council but as I discovered as Chairman of Highways that members want to take a greater interest and to have a greater say on the items on the agenda now planning is is not a controversial as , as say highway items , but nevertheless I think there will be times and there will be agendas which will require a great deal of discussion on the individual items and I 'm also a great believer bearing in mind comments if it ai n't broke , do n't bend it . |
| 17 | But nevertheless I think it looks very attractive in that way . |
| 18 | But generally I think it will become better . |
| 19 | But Mr Xemgin said : ‘ I would like to think his death would bring changes , but somehow I doubt it . ’ |
| 20 | Maybe next time we shall consign the polls to their proper place alongside the racing tips , but somehow I doubt it . |
| 21 | Mind you the shit I used to get away with at school , you know , just winding the teachers up and like generally taking the piss , I 'd always pay attention and I 'd always , always get good marks but somehow I think they seem to take pissing about slightly more seriously here . |
| 22 | He wo n't want to , but somehow I think he will . " |
| 23 | Editor , — It is true , as James Owen Drife points out , that it has become at least partially acceptable for women to stereotype the worst of male behaviour and make fun of it , but somehow I find it hard to feel sorry for him . |
| 24 | But gradually I beat my craving for the drug . ’ |
| 25 | Having read both books for the first time , I really enjoyed them , but once I read them for the second time , I saw how little there really was to them . |
| 26 | Erm but like I think we 've done it right . |
| 27 | We 've also er recently been talking to erm a lecturer of the University who is doing a project , a research project , and would like to er offer his services to us in in that er in that project , so we at the early stages but nonetheless I think it is er very important that we do er test the market place and find out what both think of us , so that we with a prime and only objective of improving a service |
| 28 | I think that might be slightly different in terms of the environment , but nonetheless I think there is a way of encouraging children to think about and to be thoughtful about the sorts of choices that we make in life and the effects of our behaviour , without overwhelming them with the sense that it in fact is their responsibility . |
| 29 | Yes , but still I mean it is much longer than this journey . |
| 30 | So , but still I suppose I have some residual identification with , with my own ethnic national group . |