Example sentences of "but [conj] i [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told Northcliffe that if his people would make enquiries at our Central Office , he would find that our nightly regiment of speakers was at least as well worth reporting as the Radical contingent , but that I realized that from the Press point of view , no doubt , our speakers did not play up to the reporters by handing them their speeches in advance , and by other tricks of the kind to which the Radical orators have recourse . |
| 2 | But if I claim that my religious experience is experience of God , then I am not simply talking about my own feelings but about a transcendent being that I am claiming my feelings to be feelings of . |
| 3 | If I pulled out he would probably do me over for being a chicken , but if I competed and beat him ( unlikely but not impossible ) … well , I might as well have booked my hospital bed then and there . |
| 4 | But if I sympathize and help , or gloat and take opportunities to add to his difficulties , in neither case with any prospect of advantage to myself , you can be sure that I am indeed aware of how he feels . |
| 5 | But if I gu an I am searched , dat is what I hate |
| 6 | ‘ I have no axe to grind and it may be that the scheme would pose no hazard , in which case I would be happy to say so publicly , ’ he said , ‘ But if I learn that the route would expose local populations to field strengths greater than two milliGauss I will say it is potentially hazardous and will support my statement with a good deal of scientific information . ’ |
| 7 | But like I said if it if you , if you do that then it 's for them and for yourself but them being up your arse is irritating if you just fucking carry on as if nothing had happened , but you 're aware of the th them doing that then I think it 's a fucking I 've that 's a psychological edge over them anyway it 's just the personalities obviously , but er |
| 8 | Oh she knew the bloke , she 'd be she 'd been out with him a few times before right , he 's , he 's not a bad bloke but like I said like I said erm but he 's respect for her I said to her |
| 9 | It just says it 's aqueous but but I mean when it when it when it happens |
| 10 | But but I query as well whether , just because you reduce the number of passengers in it , that you do n't need a P S V licence or the equivalent , it is n't a P S V licence but it 's it 's |
| 11 | –This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give . |
| 12 | ‘ This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give . |
| 13 | But since I agree that it is your duty to enquire as to the welfare of your wedded lord , and as … ’ |
| 14 | It 'd take me a while to learn how to drive it , but after I learned that I reckon I could do it . |
| 15 | But when I suggested that she smile , another young man interrupted to answer for her . |
| 16 | But when I mentioned that there was a legendary tunnel that ran from the battlements of Beaufort down through the sheer rock to the bottom of the Litani gorge , they leapt to their feet and bounded up one of the staircases . |
| 17 | I , I , I would like to but I have n't thought it seriously enough about it , but when I smelt that I thought |
| 18 | Now remember I am the leader of a party that has been in the front line against his violence for twenty years , and have been at many risks , as have been members of my party , but when I say that that dialogue is the best hope they 've seen for peace for twenty years . |
| 19 | But as I said before the game is not a purely mathematical one ; it is a mixture of physics and mathematics , a combination of intuition and technique . |
| 20 | Yes but as I said before he now has heard it so |
| 21 | But as I raved and grew more fierce and wild |
| 22 | But as I say that I recommend them because they were er excellent . |
| 23 | Er but as I say if , if we can do it on a personalized basis er personalized geographic basis , it gives it more identity er then what , what you produced certainly i is halfway there to the issues that Steve mentioned earlier on . |