Example sentences of "but [conj] i [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told them that there was no doubt in my mind but that I wanted to be a paratrooper . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | It 's as if we 're taking responsibility for men 's problem , but if I want to be safe , I feel I have to . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But until I come to you , you should not try to come to me . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But before I got to the end of it I burst into tears . |
| 13 | But before I went to Luggnagg , an official I had met in Lagado persuaded me to visit the small island of Glubbdubdrib . |
| 14 | So it 's a very great honour and privilege for me to address you today because at the end it may be difficult for you to understand but when I return to South Africa , and forgive me for speaking personally I also realize the full meaning of the support of British trade unions and the labour movement and the churches because it was because of your political material and particularly in the case of the G M B , financial and material support that it gave us the means to do what some of us wanted to do about our country and our situation , and bring about change if we could peacefully . |
| 15 | There was a good hotel , too , but when I braked to a halt in front of it and suggested stopping there , Ward shook his head , muttering something about our still having two hundred miles to go and the coastal cordillera of the Andes to cross . |
| 16 | But when I wrote to him it did n't work out ; he was much too polite and too adoring I do n't want to be adored , I want to be used and abused , I want to be treated with contempt . |
| 17 | But when I turn to her and part her thighs I |
| 18 | But when I got to be twenty-one , I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years . |
| 19 | I did n't really understand then but when I got to about five my mum and dad told me . |
| 20 | I fell in love with snooker when I was about fourteen , but when I got to about sixteen or seventeen , I started travelling around and playing in junior competitions and realized that I was very good . |
| 21 | But when I got to the window and looked out , there was nothing there ! |
| 22 | The epilogue to this evening 's survival devotions was , strange as it may seem , exactly as I should have expected it to turn out , I do not remember when I missed — or at what stage — my flight engineer , but when I returned to camp and was literally wallowing in what the High Master at Command had to say to me . |
| 23 | But when I came to this country … |
| 24 | I was sitting in the car park and I appreciated the area very much , it was nice , clean area but when I came to Walsall it was smoky and dirty area I 'm sorry to say that and er , but I had no alternative but to stay here because my father was here , I had no money and er , I thought because of relations job prospects might be better here than elsewhere . |
| 25 | And I th , I think about a great deal because it 's a very strange , it 's a very strange thing to talk about but when I came to Suffolk , I might have told you this before er , I had hardly been away from home at all , I was only seventeen when I first met him |
| 26 | It is sad that in Britain we have lost most of our old heritage , but when I went to Ireland I was pleased to find that Yeats and others before him had rescued many of the stories and legends that had been in danger of being lost . |
| 27 | But when I went to university , I did n't bother at all until I encountered a girl who I got the impression would be immensely impressed if I could speak . |
| 28 | I awoke next morning to a brilliant pearly light , but when I went to the window , no sea was visible . |
| 29 | " Forgive me , " he said to Sir Edmund , " but when I went to the Commissioner , whom I know slightly , I understood that the police would be good enough to look into our problem . |
| 30 | He seemed bright enough and very eager to learn , but when I went to the school to see his work I found that his handwriting was very , very bad and his spelling was absolutely atrocious , and although he was good at mathematics , as time went on he began to get very worried and very upset about it and when I looked at his work I realized that he was doing a lot of the words back to front and was getting the direction of figures mixed up . |