Example sentences of "to [pers pn] but i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would have thought Magnus 's mother would have been nice to me but I bet Father had already telephoned and told her lies about me , because she made me wait in the hall until Nanny came to collect me in a taxicab . |
| 2 | And it does n't appeal to me but I know that I should do it . |
| 3 | She said it 's a big , big cut off , if your phone rings you 're out , so of course the phone were ringing , then it went to one in post , no it never , it went first from Ann from Lynnette then to Ann and then it went to Kathy and then it went to erm somebody else and then it come to me but I 've got seven hundred thousand pounds worth of money on my desk that I were banking and Jane had got that job and Jane was on post in cash cos she ai n't got a job cos that thing with them shoes did n't take off and do you know |
| 4 | All sorts of people held their hands out to me but I do n't think I ever got anything . |
| 5 | This prospect is pleasing to me but I have seen Mr Landor and confess myself alarmed . |
| 6 | This awful thing has never happened to me but I have been in the situation leading up to the attack hundreds of times , in trusting casual acquaintances to walk me home or allowing strange men to come into my house to do repairs . |
| 7 | It might mean , it prob er I suppose in a sense that does n't matter very much to me but I suppose it might matter if you 're sixty yeah yeah . |
| 8 | He wanted to speak to you but I said you had a string of interviews , so he coughed up to me , nae bother . |
| 9 | a lot of them were too complicated for me to explain to you but I mean I appreciated the the miracle of it all , like they could actually take the thing to pieces |
| 10 | I am writing hurriedly to you but I have thought it right to apprize you of this … |
| 11 | I can honestly say he 's the sort of bloke I would sort of try not to get lumbered with at a party or somewhere like that I mean I do n't mind I did n't mind talking to her but I find her |
| 12 | and , I meant to listen to it but I forgot |
| 13 | I says okay I 'll agree to it but I wan na se , I have n't seen it , so how do I know ? |