Example sentences of "but i had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |
| 2 | In this particular case , of course , I had been set a slightly extraordinary task , but I had nevertheless not been neglectful to incorporate ‘ margins ’ wherever possible . |
| 3 | But I had meanwhile had time to think . |
| 4 | But I had also become more cunning . |
| 5 | I was so unhappy but I had nowhere else to go so I stayed until the baby was born . |
| 6 | But I had exactly the contrary feeling . |
| 7 | I had conceived my fictional , pastoral church within which I now spent so much of my time during an imaging session at the Centre , but I had yet to see it in reality . |
| 8 | But I had yet to come across an illustration of this process . |
| 9 | I had done well in my O-levels , but I had already won the Under-16 British squash championships , and I decided to go for broke and turn professional and see how I got on . |
| 10 | This was untrue , but I had already lent him the money . ’ |
| 11 | The following three hours passed with surprising speed , but I had already learnt a valuable lesson : it is very tiring and hard being in general surgery ; every patient expects that the doctor knows all about them the moment they walk in the door , and we had to be empathetic , not sympathetic . |
| 12 | I did n't care much for the hens and geese but I had quite a high opinion of the pigs . |
| 13 | But I had very little idea of anything at the time and I did n't do very much acting . |
| 14 | I left Simon but I had very good reason to , as you know . |
| 15 | I was n't sure what he could have done from Purley , where he lived , but I had very great confidence in his championship . |
| 16 | ‘ I suppose you could say that , but I had never thought of it in those terms . |
| 17 | I had seen hundreds , perhaps thousands , just like it , sticking out of the ground , but I had never stopped to look at them . |
| 18 | Of course we have books on herbs and mediaeval remedies , and my middle daughter is a vegetarian who grows her organic vegetables in the form of the letters CND and recycles her night soil , but I had never consciously meditated , relaxed , watched my diet , had any particular way of eating , consulted an acupuncturist , nor thought in holistic terms . |
| 19 | I knew of the Knowlton Circles in Dorset but I had never seen them , although I had seen an air photograph . |
| 20 | I had entered fully into the shared joys of Christian experience , but I had never quite gained the satisfaction that other Christians seemed to have . |
| 21 | But I had never questioned the effect that jack plugs exert over a guitar 's sound , let alone done an actual listening test to prove or disprove the Johnson theory . |
| 22 | ‘ I had heard of Genesis but I had never heard them . |
| 23 | She said : ‘ The irony is that people used to think I was terribly strong — particularly after that commercial — but I had never managed to cope with life at all . |
| 24 | My father had often urged me to try some of his marijuana , but I had never accepted , just as I had refused even to look at the cocaine that he kept in his dressing room . |
| 25 | But I had never really formed any ambition to become a Member of Parliament , I just talked about things which I love to talk about till all of a sudden one of the guests said : ‘ You want to be a Member of Parliament do n't you ? ’ and I said , ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 26 | There would be one or two stalls selling bits of radios , farm machinery and so on , but I had never felt inclined to rummage in them . |
| 27 | Felipe had let me drive around the hacienda but I had never been on a road . ’ |
| 28 | True , the religious believed that death was only physical ; but I had never allowed my instinctive religious feelings to come to the surface . |
| 29 | I do apologise for such a long letter , but I had always believed that ZZAP ! was the inferior C64 mag . |
| 30 | He had made many attempts to put his arms around me , but I had always evaded him . |