Example sentences of "but i think [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But I thought also — this is not the first time I have fled for my life with this man , who is brave if he is also stupid . |
| 2 | Daft thing about it , but I thought rather than hang on I 'll get in there and get off . |
| 3 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 4 | ‘ You would have heard officially on Monday but I thought why not tell you now and save you a week-end 's worry . |
| 5 | Well no , no I know but I thought well that does n't seem to well that 's better than what they had . |
| 6 | As I same I 'm I 'm You know , to be a bother like , but I thought well I 'd be best to come up and see you I could have just have asked for an another prescription . |
| 7 | But I thought well , While I I 'll ma kill two birds with one stone , and I 'll er come |
| 8 | Well , I looked a bit of a sight , but I thought well , well , you know , what else can I do , I mean I could n't take clothing to get changed in to . |
| 9 | And so he asked this girl Jane and , and then he asked me and erm and er had I sat down and thought about it I could have said well er what I thought , you know , the correct way er but I thought well there 's correct and there 's correct and I think the right way is to write to it and to say yes thanks |
| 10 | But , I felt , I know , at one point I really thought I was going to have to ring Iris to come and just sit with the kiddies , but I thought well if I drop down what the hell , devil this house gon na look like in , with three of them let loose in . |
| 11 | I said we 'd better go home and check and so we drove down to and as I got there , so the bus comes up , so it looked pretty but I thought well I 'd better check so I followed it back up and nobody got off it and |
| 12 | Yeah , so er , he would n't of know you see , cos I only found out today , I would n't of , I have n't had a chance to tell him that I was coming here , but I thought well I 'd call on me way home and see how you are |
| 13 | But I thought well he 's trying to get over a dog . |
| 14 | So went out and I was feeling really tired but I thought well I just been getting up very early in the mornings so |
| 15 | But I thought well they were made originally for Marks were n't they ? |
| 16 | But I thought well I 'll get on with it , what , when they get up . |
| 17 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 18 | But knowing Emily 's beginnings , as I say , she would n't allow any marriage , and I 've watched you and her , but I thought sooner or later you 'd see what she was like , and grow tired . |
| 19 | I listen to it quite often ( not this week though ) but I thought maybe someone could get on ( after we beat Blackburn ! ! ! ) and go National about the net ( especially if the piece comes out in square ball ) . |
| 20 | I was going to tell him what he could do with his job but I thought better of it an' I took my cards all polite like . |
| 21 | ‘ But I thought overall we deserved it . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ But I thought overall we deserved it . ’ |
| 23 | I mean you , you ask him if he 'd erm arranged for a cement mixer and he said oh no he did n't want to bother , but I thought afterwards that 'll be each one of those holes , he |
| 24 | She said bitterly : ‘ I was going to come up here and bitch about never getting an award , even though mine is the best comedy show with the best writers and best ratings , but I thought that inappropriate . ’ |
| 25 | There 's some lovely little girls ' coats , but I thought like let , long ones , I thought they 'll probably be alright for in her pram |
| 26 | The drive is spectacular : gorges and tropical rain forests and waterfalls on every hand , but I thought only of Poppy . |
| 27 | I thought — it was silly I know , but I thought perhaps seeing Aubrey had reminded you of Madeleine and that it was going to be as awful as it was when you came back from England after that holiday . |
| 28 | Yeah , but I thought perhaps you wanted to get into the freezer |
| 29 | no , but I thought perhaps it was frozen so it wo n't fertilize |
| 30 | ‘ We generally take most of our ideas from Jeff Barrett , ’ he grunts wryly , ‘ but I think Right Said Fred are one of the wittiest pop groups there is . |