Example sentences of "but [conj] i [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not saying that my trusting God was ‘ all up to me ’ , but that I had to see that all of me was involved in trusting God . |
| 2 | Before I call the Home Secretary , I should say that I understand that a notice of appeal has now been lodged but that I propose to exercise my discretion in respect of the sub judice rule to allow questions covering the Home Secretary 's statement . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't say I wanted to go to bed with you , but that I wanted to make love to you ; a subtle difference , ’ he chided , ‘ and I do n't know why you should look so disbelieving — you have a lovely supple body … |
| 4 | But if I had to decide I would say my favourite would be ( favourite country ) would be Canada because I have lived there the longest out of all places and so I know it better than any other country . |
| 5 | But if I had to choose a hunter for work in a particular type of country I should have a pretty good idea which would be the best animal to pick , though I might not be able to tell you how I went about it . ’ |
| 6 | Yeah but if I had to eat I 'd take them out , then I 'd put them back on |
| 7 | ‘ But if I chose to do so , what then , Miss Ruth Appleby ? ’ |
| 8 | But if I wish to enjoy myself dabbling in cooking or in playing the stock exchange then I should try and form my own judgment . |
| 9 | I s I was still only down to sort of eleven stone , but if I get to like ten stone |
| 10 | I 'd got my 10 pences , but if I stopped to use a phone box I 'd lose him . |
| 11 | But if I want to move up the ladder I 'll have to go elsewhere . ’ |
| 12 | But if I want to hear the long , late-night groove on side two , I have to play the album . |
| 13 | But if I want to play the odd tournament here and there , I will . |
| 14 | But if I want to play real loud I just go down to my basement — I have a stack down in my basement and just crank that up ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The Masters is important also , but if I have to choose I would prefer the Davis Cup to be the next big thing to win . ’ |
| 16 | But if I have to choose , then William Golding : he has a tremendous command of the language , is economical , and has great gifts of description . ’ |
| 17 | But if I have to qualify for the Open , I 'll qualify . |
| 18 | But if I dare to retaliate … if even so much as a minute flick of water lands on the Monster 's piggy-pink face … |
| 19 | But if I wanted to buy poison , a rare exotic poison such as belladonna , crushed diamond or arsenic , where would I go ? ’ |
| 20 | Pat , Gabriel and I had spent some years unpicking these variables , but if I wanted to study the cellular events occurring in the minutes after the behavioural stimulus had ceased and representing distinct stages in memory formation , then imprinting would n't be the model of choice . |
| 21 | One of the virtues of parental investment er theory I would say is that er it 's particularly sensitive to female interests in , in in sexuality and nobody who knows me or has read er my works would , could possibly suspect me here of fashionable feminist prejudices er so I do n't say this because I think this is what people like to hear , but because I happen to think it 's true , I 'm afraid I 'm one of these old-fashioned and you may think stupid people who believe that you should er say things cos you think they 're true , not because you think er it 's what you think want w want to hear or if you say it , you 'll be accused of sexual harassment by a lecturer as I was last year . |
| 22 | I was banned , however , not because I am a convicted criminal , I think — like the unfortunate Simon Hayward — but because I wanted to wear a false nose out of consideration for the feeling of my associate , Mark Chapman , who , as I explained last week , has just had an inch and a half lopped off his . |
| 23 | Vaclav Havel , Czechoslovak President since December 1989 , announced on April 14 that he would seek a further term as President " not because I want to be President at any cost … but because I want to contribute towards pushing through certain values " . |
| 24 | But before I try to answer these questions , let me remind you once again that there are vast areas of the globe , where ethnic politics , however embittered , are not nationalist , sometimes because the idea of an ethnically homogeneous population has been abandoned at some time in the past , or never existed — as in the US — or because the programme of setting up separate territorial , ethnic-linguistic states is both irrelevant and impractical . |
| 25 | But before I start to sound self-righteous , I should tell you how much I enjoy my involvement . |
| 26 | But though I refused to age , the students and the other teachers grew younger year by year . |
| 27 | I ran the tape back , wanting to listen again to some of Surkov 's improvisation ; but when I pressed to start it there was only a crackling silence . |
| 28 | But when I rung to take it , for them to take it back they had a special offer on and it was twelve weeks for forty pu , pa , you know , were doing it cheap |
| 29 | But when I managed to convert my body into something trim and neat , my personality changed too . |
| 30 | At first I thought it was a handkerchief , but when I stooped to pick it up I saw it was a cream-coloured glove ; and of all gloves , an elbow-length woman 's glove . |