Example sentences of "but i [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I liken it to an opposition party in a parliament , or a critical press ; acting as a consclence and a brake , but not in power and unlikely to assume it . |
| 2 | I have not discussed the essays by d " Auzac , Asher , Frowe , McGonigal , Seitz and Gibson , but I recommend them to the reader 's attention . |
| 3 | He was born in France , but I knew him in Persia . |
| 4 | This was best summed up by Everett , the market gardener : ‘ She were never a gel , but I knew her as a young woman and she were old then . ’ |
| 5 | Do n't ask me how — but I knew it without a shadow of a doubt . |
| 6 | But I sensed it within her . |
| 7 | But I , I mean I use it as a , that may be the psychology behind it , but I use it as a bad example of , for obvious reasons , and there 's a real bad example , and there may be some politics behind it , there 's What I think is a good example : ‘ Southeast Arts ’ sorry , ‘ Southeast Tourist Board , South of England Board . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't really drink myself , but I keep it for guests . |
| 9 | At planning meetings with the senior management I often had to endure predictable little jokes about Andreas 's ‘ harem ’ , but I took them with a good grace . |
| 10 | I ca n't read , but I took it to the priest and he read it to me . ’ |
| 11 | They did n't want him , but I persuaded them in the end . |
| 12 | No , we had these two meetings ago , but I bring it with me on meetings for anyone who 's . |
| 13 | But I owed it to Jacques and Marie-Christine . |
| 14 | Gerald Brennan , writing just two or three years after the war , says in The Face of Spain that the slow hand-clap to attract the attention of waiters had died out , but I heard it in several places in the north . |
| 15 | He recognized that this was contrary to the opinion of the pope and others at the papal court , but he put it forward as his own : ‘ others certainly may have thought of it , but I received it from no one ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ But I ask you to be Americans again , to be interested not just in getting but in giving … not just in looking out for yourselves , but in looking out for others . ’ |
| 17 | The Jolly Farmers has been demolished , but I remember it as a brick and pantile structure at the top end of the town . |
| 18 | But I saw him with his cap full of golden sovereigns and turned on the table and lent them all he 'd got . |
| 19 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 20 | ‘ I have a full staff here but I released them for the fiesta in Palma . |
| 21 | That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record . |
| 22 | But I respect you for it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I never thought it would be so , but I miss her like the devil ! ’ |
| 24 | It could be just down to good digestion and calm dreams , of course ; but I take it as a sign of happiness . |
| 25 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
| 26 | And it must be , I 've been up here twenty-three years , it must be getting on for thirty years old that teapot and er I could n't have afforded that money for that stainless steel teapot , as those days , but I had it with my divi . |
| 27 | But I had it from Makepeace , who was here at the time . |
| 28 | In fact I broadcast that material , but I cut it into three programmes , and I , I cut in the questions I would have asked if he 'd actually given me a chance to ask them . |
| 29 | I disagreed with much of what he had to say , but I welcome him to the House from this Bench and look forward to debating these issues with him on many occasions . |
| 30 | It is quite adequately furnished but I wish it to be in really bon ton . |