Example sentences of "but [conj] i try [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | All those years at Sally Carmichael 's dancing classes followed by weight training , then aerobics and , more recently , yoga , means I can still do high kicks and splits and back-bends with no trouble , but when I try to dance — I fall over . |
| 3 | The Porcupine fish in my 48″ × 24″ × 24″ tank is very friendly , but when I try to feed my other fish it simply eats all the food . |
| 4 | I planned an overnight stay at the Drumrunie Hotel , marked on the map and ten miles along the road , but when I tried to telephone to book a room , the operator told me that the hotel had recently been burnt down . |
| 5 | I was already shivering with cold , but when I tried to walk faster my heart pounded unpleasantly . |
| 6 | But when I tried to avoid giving them he ordered me to tell him what was up . |
| 7 | But when I tried to position my wheelchair next to my wife I found that the outstretched leg of the bearded chap behind came between us . |
| 8 | We hope very much it will be useful , but as I tried to stress at the beginning , we very much see the problems of developing countries , which we in the Institute are working on , as part of the problems of what 's going wrong in the world at the moment , in which we in Britain very much have a stake too . |
| 9 | A rock jutted out which others had grabbed as they swung down , but as I tried to do the same there was no edge below for my feet and I whimpered pathetically dangling on the end of the rope . |
| 10 | But as I tried to follow his instructions , keeping my fists up and my chin tucked in and learning a new kind of dance on the balls of my feet , the sight of his bare , hairless chest , so brown and muscular , would suddenly fill me with more than muscular weakness , and I felt I would collapse , not under the playful blows he landed on my discombobulated body , but under the sheer spell of his magnificence . |