Example sentences of "but i be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Unfortunately , his personal secretary said she did not think he could become actively involved , but I am writing to the Prime Minister Mr Major and George Howard , the Environment Secretary , seeking their support . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I am interested in journalism , ’ said Thomas , who is staying with the Kilcran family in Dale Road , Darlington , ‘ but I am training to be a teacher . |
| 3 | ‘ It is not , sir , ’ she said calmly , ‘ but I am driven to it . |
| 4 | The full vessels are left on the empty shore , they are for use but I am carried to the river in your arms , and I dance to the rhythms of your heart-throbs and heaving of the waves . |
| 5 | But I am going to be . |
| 6 | Shelley warned , ‘ But I am going to bed soon . ’ |
| 7 | But I am going to having said that I will tell you of the few accidents that have occurred over the years , and one of them was mine in the early days when I was learning th the full size removal job . |
| 8 | With him , well for some reason he does n't like us , well , you say I was thinking , I 've been thinking as you know this is the sort of thing that I , gets on to my mind , but I was thinking to myself well really and truly we are so honest people ourselves , we do n't go round you know and screw sort of fiddling things , I suppose it comes to hard to us when we discover other people have |
| 9 | ‘ But I was born to the sword . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I used to do women 's programmes but I was moved to the God slot . |
| 11 | But I was referring to a broader issue : |
| 12 | But I was talking to myself . |
| 13 | But I was talking to a Prof up there the other day , the actual A level , do you know , it 's pathetic really , I mean when you 're talking about law degrees you want about threes A's at A and now even accepting C's A , A level C's for engineering itself ! |
| 14 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 15 | At the moment erm the way that we use computers is , of course , to use a keyboard , but I was talking to some people today who 've now developed and you can buy it , erm a system on which you can write on what you want to say , so that as long as you print fairly clearly you do n't have to learn any new typing skills . |
| 16 | I never went to the extremes with heroin , but I was addicted to valium for seven years erm and I 've been clean from valium for four months erm through a drug programme in Brenda House |
| 17 | Oh it was heavy but I was used to heavy stuff on . |
| 18 | ‘ They were very interested in me , but I was used to that from men . |
| 19 | but I ai n't had chance to say to you , but I was saying to cos when I called in and see you think about it he |
| 20 | But I was taken to the vault before a concert in the church . |
| 21 | ‘ People were literally running for their lives but I was rooted to the spot . ’ |
| 22 | But I was brought to trial again , and sent to Australia for life . ’ |
| 23 | I 've thought about it , ’ said Nikos , ‘ but I was keeping to surveillance until I was told otherwise . ’ |
| 24 | You have already second , but I was going to second it , and say how very pleased I am to have the opportunity to second it . |
| 25 | So we were able to tell how many tickets of certain classes were sold each day but not route by route , we 'd lost that that facility because the waybills just were n't big enough and of course the , wa everything got mechanical but now I mean I do n't profess to know anything about what happens now but I was introduced to it when I went down there for a retirement and believe me it 's , it 's all electronics now they can tell how a ticket machine is issuing tickets at any particular one day by this , this electronic business , this computers . |
| 26 | And I 'm trying to but I 'm trying to but I , but a person Mr Alex wo n't let him . |
| 27 | I know ZZAP ! has done away with the classified adverts , but I 'm writing to you , hoping you 'll print this : ‘ Wanted — ZZAP ! 64 issue numbers 55 and 68 . |
| 28 | they could go to parish hall but I 'm thinking to myself well why bother ? |
| 29 | ‘ But I 'm used to three big meals a day . |
| 30 | No but I 'm used to Xs and Ys . |