Example sentences of "but i [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was laughing , but I sensed his sudden excitement . |
| 2 | Things grow in the warm darkness , I said , but I prefer it cold and moonlit . |
| 3 | Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend . |
| 4 | ‘ But I took my English books with me . ’ |
| 5 | I was tipsy But I heard my twotiming lips say You 're my true |
| 6 | I appreciate that the number of cases in which the taker and driver away is not the driver who goes on to cause personal injury or damage will be comparatively few , but I ask my right hon. Friend whether it is necessary to make such a draconian change in the traditional principles of British law , or to do it by reversing the normal burden of proof . |
| 7 | But I ate myself silly on them last night and made myself feel sick so I 'll never eat them again now . |
| 8 | But I take my immediate clue from the American critic , Norman Holland : ‘ unity is to the text as identity is to a person ; or you could say , identity is the unity I find in a person when I look at him as if he were a text . ’ |
| 9 | We are doing what we can , but I take my hon. Friend 's point that it has been an ongoing saga for some time now . |
| 10 | British Rail tell us that the Banbury to Paddington train , which was due to arrive at Oxford at three minutes past seven , has been cancelled this evening , but I 've nothing disadvantageous to report to you from the buses . |
| 11 | ‘ I have n't got the timing right yet — but I get it right about one night in three and it 's worth it . ’ |
| 12 | Well no , well I mean like we do I mean I mean but I mean my gross up about three hundred over Tony 's but I put in many hours right ? |
| 13 | I was unresponsive and kept joking with him about it — but I made it clear I was n't interested . |
| 14 | ‘ But I bet my bottom dollar she is n't . ’ |
| 15 | Of course the Bill will not sort out all the problems — it does not pretend to do that — but I wish it well in its passage through the House . |
| 16 | But I detect something sinister behind the showbiz front , the big cigar . ’ |
| 17 | But I kept my big mouth shut . |
| 18 | I did not take it personally , but I thank my hon. Friend none the less . |
| 19 | It hurt a bit at the time , but I got myself free and did n't think a lot about it just then . |
| 20 | I may not wear a mob cap , but I rake our coal-fired Rayburn daily and ‘ clouds of ash ’ is an understatement of the result . |
| 21 | As we hurried now beneath the gas lamps , in and out of the dark patches where the light did not reach , I wanted to cry , ‘ But I thought her safe in Scotland ! ’ |
| 22 | I do n't want to sound a snob but I thought it vulgar . |
| 23 | ‘ She did n't want it coloured or layered , but I felt her original style was too long and dragged her down . ’ |
| 24 | She 's all of five feet five but I suppose her slim build gives the impression of being petite … |
| 25 | I believe that we are right to wait until the independent report has been received , but I assure my right hon. Friend and the House that all EC partners who have worked well together on this are carefully considering future relations in the light of what appears to have happened , as shown on the video which so many of us have seen and which the families of the people involved have had to witness in their suffering . |
| 26 | The European Commission is in dispute with the German Government over the level of their production subsidies , but I assure my hon. Friend that imports from Germany are minimal and that the real competition for the British coal mining industry comes from other fuels . |
| 27 | By now my father and brother were dead , so I was rich , but I considered myself poor , because I was tied to a mad wife until death . ’ |
| 28 | But I owe its initial success to Eliot . |
| 29 | Not only am I happy to join my hon. Friend in congratulating that successful exporter , but I congratulate my hon. Friend on the energetic and effective way in which he has supported Beloit Walmsley in winning those contracts . |
| 30 | ‘ I ca n't stand his lordliness ; but I admire his moral stance ; and the first is always the servant of the second , ’ the other scribe had explained serenely , fuelling Huy 's dislike . |