Example sentences of "but i [verb] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , I know my English is n't correct , but I try to make it correct . |
| 2 | But I 've made up my mind . |
| 3 | ‘ But I 've made it with United and now I want the chance to show what I can do at the highest level of all . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't think that I 've made great strides in the game ’ , he comments , ‘ but I 've made steady progress since I turned pro . ’ |
| 5 | But I 've made a few enquiries about him , discreetly , of course , from Mr Tucker in Nassau . |
| 6 | I started by assuming it was the usual sort of thing but I 've made inquiries with our people in Narborough and I 'm not sure it was anything sexual . |
| 7 | But I had made a mistake and not put the fellow 's name and address in my book . |
| 8 | But I had made up my mind that I must not get emotional , so I hid all my feelings . |
| 9 | ‘ But I had to make the effort , on behalf of the Division . |
| 10 | ‘ My surgeon says further surgery would be morally wrong as it could affect my future health but I had to make an effort to get back after the England tour went wrong . |
| 11 | ‘ Just a friend — but I had to make him mine |
| 12 | The connection between enjoyment and a spontaneous welcoming of awareness is logically necessary , for it would be contradictory to say ‘ I intensely enjoyed the sensation , but I had to make an effort to be much aware of it . ’ |
| 13 | The cops got coffee and cigarettes and sandwiches , but I had to make do with inhaling their used smoke . |
| 14 | But I had to make him keep you on . |
| 15 | But I had to make a bigger adjustment to studying . |
| 16 | He wanted me to stay but I 'd made up my mind . |
| 17 | ‘ It is n't easy , any of it , but I tend to make it appear so . |
| 18 | It is n't easy , any of it , but I tend to make it appear so . |
| 19 | But I failed to make the connection . |
| 20 | P. Mainly skaters , some college people out of skating but I like to make new friends all the time . |
| 21 | I love salad sandwiches but I hate making them ! |
| 22 | Whether the ground actually became firmer or whether I was spurred on by fear I do not know , but I began to make better progress . |
| 23 | I suppose it was just my managerial instinct coming to the fore , but I decided to make a tactical substitution . |
| 24 | This was n't the first time it had got me into trouble , but I intended to make damn sure it was the last . |
| 25 | I realize I am too awake to fall back asleep but I manage to make the fourth minute take longer than the previous three to count out , or finally |
| 26 | ‘ But I wanted to make sure that , well , I was n't just being cynical about it all , making use of you . |
| 27 | We have er found that to be the case there is a downward trend , but I do make the point , and I did make the point to the inspectors notwithstanding that , all of our respecting officers bar those that were doing the training of course do produce a higher work output per individual than most of our peers up and down the country and we have statis statistical evidence to support that . |
| 28 | I did not threaten to resign but I did make it clear that I would not endorse changes I could not justify . |
| 29 | I did n't do so , but I did make another suggestion . |
| 30 | But I did make for the baize door a little more quickly than on my way in , and in the semi-darkness stumbled over one of the wellingtons , kicking it half-way across the floor . |