Example sentences of "but i [verb] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was laughing , but I sensed his sudden excitement . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ But I took my English books with me . ’ |
| 4 | I was tipsy But I heard my twotiming lips say You 're my true |
| 5 | But I received my first one of these from er from Lloyds er Black Knights er services because I was in I was about fifteen miles away . |
| 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 | NO BUT I REMEMBER MY FIRST FLIGHT WITH YOU , CAPTAIN . |
| 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 | 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 ? |
| 11 | But I ruined my own life — and more importantly I ruined Ashi 's too — because I refused to admit that I was what I was . ’ |
| 12 | That was all very well , but I had my own position to consider . |
| 13 | He could be quite maddening at times , but I had my own concerns and had to leave it at that . |
| 14 | ‘ But I bet my bottom dollar she is n't . ’ |
| 15 | But I kept my big mouth shut . |
| 16 | ( but I know her better pissed ) |
| 17 | I may be a layman in terms of aero-space , but I know my own country and I know military thinking . |
| 18 | I am young , naïve perhaps , all the things you said , but I know my own mind , I know what you did to him , what you 're doing to me . |
| 19 | I did not take it personally , but I thank my hon. Friend none the less . |
| 20 | But I got my own back — at the time I was writing a column for the Guardian , so I wrote '20 Things You Did n't Know About the Editor of The Sun ’ — the Editor of The Sun wears his pyjamas over his head and he has twelve daughters , all called Spot . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ She did n't want it coloured or layered , but I felt her original style was too long and dragged her down . ’ |
| 24 | You can rook your employers for as much as you want if you must , but I pay my own way , ’ she said firmly . |
| 25 | She 's all of five feet five but I suppose her slim build gives the impression of being petite … |
| 26 | The girls I knew at COHQ thought he was particularly unattractive , but I expect his own girls applied different criteria . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But I owe its initial success to Eliot . |
| 30 | And Blake admitted : ‘ Obviously I would love to play , but I run my own business and Friday is the busiest day of the week . |