Example sentences of "but [subord] i get " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once I got out of the splitting shop out into the dry , handling leather rather than skins , er it were terrific , absolutely terrific . |
| 2 | But if I got mad sometimes , shouted at her , it was just bluff . |
| 3 | it 's that or a new head torch , but if I got a new head torch it , it perhaps but they 're about , they 're about thirty quid I think |
| 4 | It ai n't a street or nothing , but if I get there I might recognise summat and then know where I am . |
| 5 | He has struck the sort of form which is prompting thoughts of an international call-up and he admitted : ‘ My main priority is to do well for Villa , but if I get an international chance then I 'll be ready to take it . ’ |
| 6 | But if I get the right sort of backing I 'm sure we can turn things round . |
| 7 | I s I was still only down to sort of eleven stone , but if I get to like ten stone |
| 8 | I much prefer to find my own swims , not because I think I can find better swims than anyone else , but because I get a great deal of satisfaction from being able to study a piece of water , select a swim as a likely chub haunt , and then find that I am right . |
| 9 | ‘ I go to a meeting , have some really good points to make , but because I get paralysed about speaking out I remain silent . |
| 10 | ‘ It came as such a shock , but since I got over it , life 's been brilliant . |
| 11 | But before I got to the end of it I burst into tears . |
| 12 | But before I got , I er , I suggested that fucking years ago ! |
| 13 | ‘ The first set was incredible — it was like a final — but after I got that set David seemed to lose heart a bit , ’ said Corsie later . |
| 14 | I ran down to meet him , but when I got there I saw that he had narrow eyes and a mean mouth and I did n't like him one bit . |
| 15 | The idea was that I 'd go for a fortnight but when I got there she gave me the bum 's rush so I spent a couple of miserable days in France and then hared it back to England . |
| 16 | I had arranged to meet them at Salima 's house , but when I got there she told me that the other two were at Ruksana 's place . |
| 17 | But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 . |
| 18 | But when I got home , I spent an hour simply looking out of the window of my home at the campus , and speculating on its future . |
| 19 | But when I got back to Norwich , I started to cry . |
| 20 | I saw the men playing chess in the hot Szechenyi baths and managed the journey back , but when I got home , people shook their heads . |
| 21 | But when I got to be twenty-one , I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years . |
| 22 | ‘ But when I got here it was very cold . ’ |
| 23 | I amused myself for about a month doing that , but when I got the cast taken off I found it uncomfortable to play conventional style — so I 've always felt right at home playing over the neck . |
| 24 | I did n't really understand then but when I got to about five my mum and dad told me . |
| 25 | I went out and bought a remedy , thinking it was an infection , but when I got home I realised that she actually had a piece of red coloured gravel stuck inside her mouth , so that she could n't close it properly . |
| 26 | ‘ I have no idea why he picked me , but when I got the call , I screamed with delight . |
| 27 | I fell in love with snooker when I was about fourteen , but when I got to about sixteen or seventeen , I started travelling around and playing in junior competitions and realized that I was very good . |
| 28 | Paul did n't drink a lot , but when I got back he was drunk . |
| 29 | ‘ But when I got behind the typewriter I thought , ‘ That ai n't gon na make a very good piece ’ and so I took the piss out of her something rotten . |
| 30 | To cap all I suffered a physical hallucination as I staggered up the road beyond the inlet of Enard Bay : I could clearly see a row of cottages at the top of the hill but when I got there , they had vanished . |