Example sentences of "but i [verb] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things grow in the warm darkness , I said , but I prefer it cold and moonlit . |
| 2 | But I keep it all in ; it 's far more exciting . |
| 3 | As the first one had managed to flutter down , it seemed that the rest should be able to do the same , but I judged it safer to load them into a cardboard box and lower them gently . |
| 4 | I know they say I am a celebrity , but I take it all with a pinch of salt . |
| 5 | Can I jump from this , they 're all interconnected , over to question of magistrates , one of the questions in the notes , really , it points out that there are about , not quite , but er , about two third of magistrates are men , and about a third women , erm , is there , is that because of history , and shall , because they 're are more women than men , I mean logically , because there are more women than men in the community , there should be more women magistrates than men , should n't there , on the on the basis of presentation , I take it that , I do n't know the figures , but I take it that er , more and more women now are er , being , accepting , the called , of course , to be magistrate , you did n't have any choice once , do you in a way . |
| 6 | ‘ I have n't got the timing right yet — but I get it right about one night in three and it 's worth it . ’ |
| 7 | Yes , I have the slip somewhere , and my father I did n't keep it but my father must have kept it , but I discovered it one day and it was seven and thruppence I think for the first week 's pay . |
| 8 | I was unresponsive and kept joking with him about it — but I made it clear I was n't interested . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But I er it was about two f yeah , I put a fiver , but I put it each way , so |
| 11 | Not that I will be changing anything in the immediate area of the shelf at the base of which the bait lies , but I thought it better to give the carp a profound liking for the swim before even one stalk of rush or one lily pad was removed . |
| 12 | I do n't want to sound a snob but I thought it vulgar . |
| 13 | I unlocked the passenger door of the Transit for them but I thought it best not to open it for them or offer them a hand up and in . |
| 14 | I wanted to trail her back home but I thought it best not to go to too fast |
| 15 | Well you can but I suppose it all the juices you know , have a better taste on than if you |
| 16 | At some time during my second afternoon at the centre , a Bonny Baby competition was held , but I missed it all in a blur of Mickeys . |
| 17 | ‘ But I wanted it all to be as it used to be so I said I 'd rather do it myself . ’ |
| 18 | Then you get somebody else , well I started the same as you , but I do it this way , I do it that way , so that you can formulate your way of doing it . |
| 19 | But I want it that way . |
| 20 | But I loved it all the same . |
| 21 | It was expensive , high tech , brutal and , I do n't doubt , ecologically unsound but I loved it all . |
| 22 | It might be ( and indeed I think it would be ) an improvement in our law , if a release or acquittance of the whole debt , on payment of any sum which the creditor might be content to receive by way of accord and satisfaction ( though less than the whole ) , were held to be , generally , binding , though not under seal ; nor should I be unwilling to see equal force given to a prospective agreement , like the present , in writing though not under seal ; but I think it impossible , without refinements which practically alter the sense of the word , to treat such a release or acquittance as supported by any new consideration proceeding from the debtor . |
| 23 | Since these forms of compulsion are not directly relevant for present purposes , it is unnecessary to elaborate them ; but I think it pertinent to observe that the concept of duress has in recent years been expanded to embrace economic duress . |
| 24 | Maybe this look is dead cool in Belgium , but I think it unlikely . |
| 25 | Shooting can be effective and sporting too , but I think it vital that everyone who shoots in these situations should be a very capable gun and able to kill a very large proportion of what he fires at . |
| 26 | This question only arises if I am wrong on the main point of principle , but I think it proper to consider it nonetheless . |
| 27 | but I find it useful . |
| 28 | it is possible to write large and use the camera to reduce the size , but I find it better to do all artwork at the finished size because thin lines tend to disappear on reduction . |
| 29 | ‘ But I find it impossible to believe you ever intended to marry my father . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I respect their decision , but I find it strange . ’ |