Example sentences of "but i [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I meant only to gain your consent — if I could . |
| 2 | But I meant how did you get word down to Blair Gowrie ? |
| 3 | At the rime his Jewish appearance did not strike me as peculiar because I had not yet got used to the idea of people thinking racially , but I learnt later that he was half Jewish and that he did this job to keep his Jewish wife out of trouble . |
| 4 | ‘ I was fighting the way I felt , but I knew deep inside what was happening to me . ’ |
| 5 | But I knew differently . |
| 6 | ‘ I shouted for someone to get him out , but I knew instantly that he could n't be saved . |
| 7 | ‘ I shouted for someone to get him out , but I knew instantly that he could n't be saved . |
| 8 | How far all this was homesickness or a defensive strategy against ( anticipated ? ) rejection by the surrounding community , or just sheer stubbornness , I now ca n't tell , but I knew even then that it had nothing to do with the world in which I was trying to live . |
| 9 | When they left , however , and I made the decision to stay , I knew it might be hard for me but I knew also that I was doing the right thing . |
| 10 | But I knew why . |
| 11 | After he 'd gone Dad said he would consider what Mr Vulcan had said but I knew already what I wanted and I knew Dad would n't object . |
| 12 | But I knew where her father lived . |
| 13 | ‘ But I knew where I was with you ! ’ he says irritably . |
| 14 | I did n't dare show a light — though I doubt whether a light could have been seen from the shore through the mist , and there was probably no one to see it — but I knew where things were . |
| 15 | But I knew straight away that you and that handsome husband of yours just had to be Leos ! ’ |
| 16 | I would have loved to have stayed because I really enjoy things like that , I love discos and get up and have a dance but I knew damn well that if I did I 'd be absolutely shattered today and I , I just would n't be with it so I , I said to Matthew I 'm going up . |
| 17 | But I knew very well the ones with fruits that we could eat , that provided food for birds , that had special flowers . |
| 18 | To myself it 's a matter of well my first reaction was to ask the C I D if they knew the situation between o of , that was my first response actually to when the phone call came in , but I knew very little about . |
| 19 | In half an hour she felt a lot better , but I knew now it would be my job to see her safely down to the hut . |
| 20 | But I knew then , and I know now . |
| 21 | I suppose I could have thought from the little he 'd said up until then that my half-brother was dead , or ill , or that something had happened to him , but I knew then it was something Eric had done , and there was only one thing he could have done which would make my father look worried . |
| 22 | But I knew better than to broadcast those ideas around school . |
| 23 | It was my rest day but I knew how many aircraft had taken off , and as the sky lightened with the early summer dawn , we waited tensely in Hut 4 for them to return . |
| 24 | I 'd never read it but I knew how much I could have sold it for . |
| 25 | I was only a couple of years older myself , but I knew enough never to believe a word he said . |
| 26 | I wished that I could talk well , and could continue this conversation until animosity was dissipated and we could all stand on some common ground , but I knew enough to admit that this would n't happen , and that the longer the talk went on the further apart we should all grow . |
| 27 | It 's wicked really but I 'ad ter laugh . |
| 28 | ‘ But I woke up in the middle of the night and could n't get back to sleep , so I decided to bake a cake , after all . |
| 29 | ‘ But I woke up in the middle of the night in agony . |
| 30 | I said I had to piss , but I ran out of the house and walked around the streets wondering what the fuck to do and trying to imagine what Dad was saying to Mum and how she was taking it . |