Example sentences of "but i [vb past] you " in BNC.
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1 | It is no good the person who gave the order later complaining ‘ But I meant you to do so-and-so ’ . |
2 | But I knew you were getting restless . |
3 | As I believe that you both did , when you were my age — if you can remember so far back — but I knew you would prevent me from doing so if I told you the truth . ’ |
4 | ‘ It seemed such a shame to wake you , but I knew you 'd be really cross if you did n't get some studying done . ’ |
5 | Or rather you did violently , but I judged you too hastily and I am not angry now . |
6 | ‘ But I heard you swear that you would track down her killer . |
7 | ‘ Ye think ye 're a big man , ’ Phillis said , with a rare spite , ‘ but I saw ye greeting . |
8 | I would have caught up with you earlier but I saw you talking to that poor downtrodden mouse of a Haynes woman and waited till she 'd gone . |
9 | ‘ Sorry to be a pest , ’ Travis apologised , ‘ but I saw you come back without Naylor , ’ and while Leith was rapidly trying to find an excuse for her return to the house without the man everyone knew she had gone walking with , she found that Travis was too involved with his own miseries to want to delve into hers , for he went on , ‘ I 've been sitting in the library thinking about Rosemary , and getting more and more uptight about our situation , when you ran in and I started to think about phoning her . |
10 | I assume even your second wife would be used to this sort of thing by now but I looked you up : you 've got a boy ant a girl both around college age and — ’ |
11 | You wanted to abandon it by the side of the road , but I made you push it on , with myself taking short spells of pushing . |
12 | stop there for tonight , but I had you know , I just spoke French . |
13 | ‘ You clearly are n't in a fit state to drive , but I assumed you 'd be stubborn about it . ’ |
14 | He wanted to speak to you but I said you had a string of interviews , so he coughed up to me , nae bother . |
15 | Well he wants to , but I said you 'll , you 'll got a , you 'll it 's a long ladder to climb now and you 'll never get another job like that |
16 | I said if you said to me , Geoff , I want all the overtime I can get I can get the overtime I 'll go round and I 'll try and or if you say to me well I do n't want the overtime , I 'm quite happy with a flat week then I 'll know what I am but I said you change from day to day , one day you wann it , another day you do n't ! |
17 | But I betrayed you . |
18 | In fact , I was only going to stay a couple of years and move on , but … but I met you and I knew right from the beginning what was going to happen to me ; and it 's grown over these months during our supposedly accidental meetings here . |
19 | But I left you on the couch . |
20 | But I knocked you to the floor , and the blow was so hard that it made my hand throb for hours afterwards . |
21 | ‘ I hope you do n't mind me arriving without an appointment like this but I understood you had an Open Door policy . ’ |
22 | But I thought you were political … |
23 | But I thought you , being a man , would have done . |
24 | ‘ I 'm sorry , officer , but I thought you were a ‘ peeper ’ . |
25 | ‘ I was goin' ter tell yer about that but I thought you would n't be interested . ’ |
26 | ‘ I 'm not meaning to talk shop but I thought you might be interested . ’ |
27 | But I thought you meant Satan , people usually do . |
28 | ‘ But I thought you said she could n't … ’ |
29 | It made Yeah I know it made that but I thought you just wanted to know what it gave off . |
30 | ‘ But I thought you wanted to go home , ’ I said . |