Example sentences of "but [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But where I thought of this part of the game as the worst , Ken positively savoured it . |
| 2 | I would have to bite back my angry words — that better men than he had driven the jeep but that I knew he would share their fate . |
| 3 | But that I raised it knowing you hate it . |
| 4 | But that I thought was really good for three pound . |
| 5 | I told Northcliffe that if his people would make enquiries at our Central Office , he would find that our nightly regiment of speakers was at least as well worth reporting as the Radical contingent , but that I realized that from the Press point of view , no doubt , our speakers did not play up to the reporters by handing them their speeches in advance , and by other tricks of the kind to which the Radical orators have recourse . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was n't that loneliness chose me , but that I chose it , proudly wrapping myself in it , like a cloak against the pollution of the world . |
| 7 | But that I 'd done before . |
| 8 | I admitted he visited me but that I 'd had a history of violence with him , and anyway I 'd got an injunction . |
| 9 | I thought that it was probably some stupid village prank , but that I 'd better get in as soon as possible in case something odd was happening . |
| 10 | He seemed so pleased with himself that I could n't help saying that I should mind them very much myself but that I had no objection to his wearing them — a view which I believed surprised him . |
| 11 | I am not saying that my trusting God was ‘ all up to me ’ , but that I had to see that all of me was involved in trusting God . |
| 12 | I replied that it was not the first time , but that I had borne the previous occasions with courage and would do so now . |
| 13 | Or simply told the truth — told them there and now that it was n't Syl 's smile that repelled me but that I had an intuitive conviction that there was something unsound in him , something unwholesome by virtue of being undeveloped , something that would , sooner or later , cause me to turn on him with bitter cruelty as Nour had turned on me . |
| 14 | But that I had deceived . |
| 15 | I told him that ever since listening to my father 's vivid descriptions of Constantinople I had always wanted to visit the city , but that I had been sadly disillusioned by the Turks I had seen on my way to the Embassy ; they had looked so incongruous in second-hand European clothes . |
| 16 | I said that did I share his belief I should not contemplate what I do , but that I did not share it . |
| 17 | I said that , did I share his belief , I should not contemplate what I do , but that I did not share it . |
| 18 | To say I did n't have time would not be true , but that I did n't really want to make time . |
| 19 | As to liking , I always had the feeling — I ca n't quite express it — the feeling that in his eyes I was all right — useful in fact , but that I did n't matter in myself . |
| 20 | I told them that there was no doubt in my mind but that I wanted to be a paratrooper . |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't say I wanted to go to bed with you , but that I wanted to make love to you ; a subtle difference , ’ he chided , ‘ and I do n't know why you should look so disbelieving — you have a lovely supple body … |
| 22 | He looked at my work and said I had talent , but that I needed " earnest practice in drawing " , to which I wholly agree : He also said he would be glad to take me as his " chela " but that my name and work must go before the council of professors of the Academy , which meets next Thursday , 17th inst. and that if they accepted me I could start work on the following Monday , 21st inst . |
| 23 | But once I got out of the splitting shop out into the dry , handling leather rather than skins , er it were terrific , absolutely terrific . |
| 24 | But although I said I was reasonably Spartan , this bare Nissen hut and my little windy bivouac pall a bit at times . |
| 25 | I knew the ones she meant ; she meant the square transparent boiled sweets which when she was a child would have been weighed out in pennyworths from a tall glass jar , but although I searched in grocers ’ shops and sweet shops high and low , all I could find were wrapped oval-shaped acid drops . |
| 26 | But although I asked myself the question , I knew the answer . |
| 27 | But although I chose it virtually at random , this does not make it ‘ typical ’ , any more than the horrific Bihar gaol described by Sinha ( 1978 ) in which 143 people had died within three years . |
| 28 | But although I relaxed a little in the hours I spent with them , I never really felt comfortable — and at all times I felt compelled to keep eye contact … and a small notebook strategically placed . |
| 29 | Those Marshalls sure sound great , ’ but although I 'd done the work on them it did n't really help me a lot . |
| 30 | We 'd been trying to see someone there for months , but although I 'd delivered petitions , I 'd never managed to get through the front door . |