Example sentences of "but i [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't , I have n't got a clue but I knew it the minute the second you said it I knew it . |
| 2 | Some people do n't do anything — some people 's places really are n't clean … well , this one is n't very , but I keep it the best I can . |
| 3 | But I mean what the pay relative to us the cost of living and everything else , I do n't know . |
| 4 | I did n't know Tonya very well , but I wish her the best . ’ |
| 5 | I do not know what the answer is , but I know what the answer is not . |
| 6 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 7 | People say they become imperceptive ; they spend hours looking for the car keys that were on the table in front of them all the time ; they become preoccupied and inattentive to what other people are saying to them ( ‘ But I told you the Smiths were coming over yesterday . |
| 8 | ‘ Wild geese , mon vieux , is what you presume me to chase , ’ said the gentleman to Bramble , ‘ but I assure you the stable door is bolted . ’ |
| 9 | But I think what the Franks Report illustrates to me very , very clearly indeed is that , within a parliamentary democratic system of government , there are some issues which are insoluble in that the government of the day … are incapable of delivering through the House of Commons . |
| 10 | I think I said it was a 6-iron or maybe a 7 , but I gave him the yardage and he hit his shot right at the hole . |
| 11 | I was utterly baffled , but I gave you the benefit of every doubt , which by this time added up to a couple of thousand . |