Example sentences of "but i [vb base] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But I tell you one person who 's getting on my nerves is that good looking son at McDonalds .
2 ‘ A vague suspicion as yet but I tell you this : if the murderer strikes again , it will be against us , Roger , so be on your guard ! ’
3 In all honesty the difficulties are formidable , but I tell you this , for too many years trade unionism has been in the doldrums and with such a prize , however difficult to achieve , it would be a betrayal of our heritage and a betrayal of our members if we do n't give it a good hard try .
4 But I tell you this — even if the corpse is not James 's , Surrey himself assured me that no royal personage could escape from that battle .
5 But I tell you this , Roger , Moodie was innocent of any crime .
6 Things grow in the warm darkness , I said , but I prefer it cold and moonlit .
7 But I keep it all in ; it 's far more exciting .
8 But I ask myself one question : what should be the reparation for having been removed from life for 18 years , with my brothers ?
9 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 .
10 Well , but I ask you that one .
11 NO BUT I REMEMBER MY FIRST FLIGHT WITH YOU , CAPTAIN .
12 It is great to be here , but I miss you all and look forward to being with you again soon .
13 I know they say I am a celebrity , but I take it all with a pinch of salt .
14 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 .
15 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 . ’
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 ‘ I have n't got the timing right yet — but I get it right about one night in three and it 's worth it . ’
19 But I mean we all are .
20 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 ?
21 But I bet my bottom dollar she is n't . ’
22 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 .
23 But I detect something sinister behind the showbiz front , the big cigar . ’
24 ( but I know her better pissed )
25 ‘ No , but I know what some of the bits are called , ’ said Masklin .
26 But I know me own daughter well enough to know that she does n't want to lock herself inside a convent for the rest of her life .
27 I may be a layman in terms of aero-space , but I know my own country and I know military thinking .
28 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 .
29 But I know who two of them were .
30 But I er it was about two f yeah , I put a fiver , but I put it each way , so
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