Example sentences of "but [conj] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ? |
| 2 | But where I thought of this part of the game as the worst , Ken positively savoured it . |
| 3 | Mark : I ca n't say that to the same extent , but where I live at the moment I know a lot of people within five minutes ' walk and there are ten or fifteen gay people I know who live locally ; there are people I can visit without any great effort whatsoever , whom I 'm likely to meet in the shops . |
| 4 | I told them that there was no doubt in my mind but that I wanted to be a paratrooper . |
| 5 | I knew the ones she meant ; she meant the square transparent boiled sweets which when she was a child would have been weighed out in pennyworths from a tall glass jar , but although I searched in grocers ’ shops and sweet shops high and low , all I could find were wrapped oval-shaped acid drops . |
| 6 | But although I wrote in my diary that I wished I were dead , I never seriously considered death — suicide — as a solution to my problems . |
| 7 | I do n't know about you , but if I had to sort of pass something on to somebody else to check , if I can see somebody scribbling on it , I , I , I , I feel quite edgy , I hate it , I like to feel that I can do it and I can do it well and that other people do n't need to have to amend it . |
| 8 | ‘ It was a very important game , because one of the top assessors was there , but if I continued after half time , I could have done myself harm physically . |
| 9 | I went to me doctor as well , but if I go to that doctor with a swollen ankle or somethin' , she gives me antibiotics , if it 's me back , it 's antibiotics , if it 's a cold , antibiotics . |
| 10 | But if I speak of a stone that turneth all to gold , or a treasure hidden in the menstruum of whores , then the imagination is set to work . |
| 11 | Declarative sentences identical except for different incompatible terms in parallel syntactic positions ( besides those used in the test ) are frequently in a contrary relationship : if I cycled to work is true , then I walked to work is false , but if I cycled to work is false , then I walked to work may be either true or false . |
| 12 | But if I insist on forcing the spontaneous towards an end which I already deem rational , I remain imprisoned within a circle of old concepts , reason goes on doing the same kind of sums , there can be no novelty except the discovery of unnoticed implications of the familiar . |
| 13 | But if I went to Joyce and told him that his men were doing something that was n't fair to the police , trying us too hard or interfering with our time off , he 'd have his men right off that job in half an hour and there 'd be no grumbling . ’ |
| 14 | if I do M D space put here , it will create a sub-directory , below the one two three directory , but if I want as a sub-directory from the roots directory , I have to type M D back-slash put . |
| 15 | It 's as if we 're taking responsibility for men 's problem , but if I want to be safe , I feel I have to . |
| 16 | Now if I 'm presenting my centre line to Tony and speaking to him that feels fine yeah , but if I talk to you Dave over my shoulder like that I mean how does that feel ? |
| 17 | But if I start with A. |
| 18 | But if I run through the addresses I think it 'll make sense because everybody will recognize where they are . |
| 19 | But if I run into trouble , get the others away . " |
| 20 | Possibly before then but if I work on that then I can advise you |
| 21 | No but like I said to my mum it 'll be alright because your do , your brother 'll be in all evening wo n't he Helena ? |
| 22 | That 's why she 's asked me to do it , but like I said to mum you know , I 'm not gon na say to her , oh yeah I 'll do it whenever you want , I 'll say like they 're gon na do this extra course on Wednesday nights and she said , like unless she could get a baby-sitter she could n't go which is the reason I 'm doing it . |
| 23 | But like I say for seven years he just sat and did n't want to do nothing . |
| 24 | I jump for joy … but until I hear from the Foreign Office or from Martin , I wo n't believe it . |
| 25 | But until I come to you , you should not try to come to me . ’ |
| 26 | They are trying to guard me … but until I see for myself , how do I decide if I want to be protected ? |
| 27 | Certainly the request of staff then could turn into of the panel erm but but I think at the same time if people want to look at the structure so that they have a complete view of the structural organisation |
| 28 | Live and let live I say , but unless I want to be certain of constantly bumping into parties of rambling Rotarians , I think I will keep off these organised highways . |
| 29 | Erm now I know that most of you have memorized the constitution but because I suffer from Alzheimer 's I had to bring mine with me to remind myself erm what the constitution says about the , the powers of the presidency . |
| 30 | But because I work during the week , Saturday is the only time I have , apart from my lunch hour . |