Example sentences of "but i [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I knew at the time that I felt I had something to offer and that 's why I wanted to come back and be a manager again . |
| 2 | Whether the particular scheme summarized here can contribute substantially to that end remains to be seen , but I hope at the very least I have been able to express why I believe that the social sciences will eventually be fused with biology . |
| 3 | But I saw at once that this was not what Mrs Girdlestone wanted to hear . |
| 4 | But I lived at home . ’ |
| 5 | I bought along this brochure , you can have a copy if you like but I mean at the back there are forty five institutions all virtually paddling their own canoe . |
| 6 | you know , but I mean at the moment I keep , he 's coming home some nights and , you know it like , he 'll come home and say I had a really good morning the kids were great , but as for the afternoon , and like he said when you 're teaching you 're only as good as your last lesson , you know |
| 7 | But I looked at Mother as they were kissing and she had seen all right . |
| 8 | The atmosphere was thick with tension but I looked at Mick and he glared back ; here was a guy ready to go for it and nobody was going to stop him . |
| 9 | Er he attended to me and I should n't have done but I looked at my notes at th bottom of the bed one day and it said , Interference denied . |
| 10 | How the but I looked at the . |
| 11 | but I looked at a pineapple and it 's from the Philippines . |
| 12 | But I looked at it and I thought well I 'm being silly here because , it 's not keeping that for me , , you see he 's given me a bit of and |
| 13 | No , erm , well it 's , it 's not just , they did n't have , it was n't too much , there 's one ear piece which has come off , but I discovered at , my last , I sent myself last week at the assembly hall to how that could happen |
| 14 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
| 15 | I saw my marriage as a kind of pointless secular martyrdom , but I baulked at putting brushwood around my own pyre . |
| 16 | But I listened at the bedroom door when you found my terminal . |
| 17 | I hated the cold nights , hated Ron at times , but I kept at it . |
| 18 | But I kept at him . |
| 19 | Oh it is now yes , you 've got , I mean you 've got the service now have n't you and erm , but I like at St Margaret 's hospital I 'd been , I had been , I went in there to have my last boy , but they 're very , very good there they were , I 've not been in , I 've been in , I 've had treatment here for my hip and that up at Harlow but they would n't do the operation because of my blood clotting you see , so therefore I 've got to grin and bear it , I 've had eight years of it , I could n't walk for six months , but now I struggle and get around as I say with a couple of sticks I get round |
| 20 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
| 21 | She turned as if to call but I growled at her again , ‘ Do n't call , ’ in so urgent a voice that she desisted . |
| 22 | He said but I sit at night he said when she 's gone to work and he said and help them with their drawings and things they 're doing . |
| 23 | But I felt at home ; and I made a splendid collection of Italian cafe napkins , their corners printed with emblems of the past glory of Ninfania : the Cupid stringing his bow to let fly his darts from the prow in the cafe of the old harbour , and a selection — even I was defeated by the variety — of ice cream wrappers : ‘ Cooky Delight ’ and ‘ Bikini Manhattan ’ and ‘ Magnum Astoria ’ and ‘ Desiree ’ , ‘ Party Craze ’ and ‘ Magic Cola ’ , ‘ Oasis ’ and ‘ Grand Carre ’ , ‘ Card Game ’ and ‘ Tiffany ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ When Blackburn came in for me , they were well down the old Second Division , but I jumped at the chance . |
| 25 | It had been aimed at my head , but I moved at the last second , prompted by some unclassified intuition of survival . |
| 26 | ‘ It may be more of an intuitive thing , but I considered at that time that there were shades of Edward VIII about him . |
| 27 | But I want at least two men present at all times . ’ |
| 28 | The thing has little music & little choiceness of words , but I fancied at the time it was genuine enough . |
| 29 | And in fact the coffee rooms not only were not profitable but I think at one time were even subsidized by the directors ' own pocket which just how balmy some people can be . |
| 30 | Certainly the request of staff then could turn into of the panel erm but but I think at the same time if people want to look at the structure so that they have a complete view of the structural organisation |