Example sentences of "but i [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw no trouble at the match , but I heard on TV afterwards that there had been fights in Waverly station before and after the match |
| 2 | The ones with long wrist cuffs are not everyone 's favourite , but I insist on them . |
| 3 | ‘ OK , ugly duckling , take all the time you need , but I insist on force-feeding you that sangría before we leave : you 're as uptight as a barnacle on a boat 's bum . ’ |
| 4 | But I mean on a sort of wider thing erm |
| 5 | Erm but I mean on the other hand if you start trying to develop your criteria , and I 'd go out and look at Botton Village and look at the Richmond Fellowship or something , |
| 6 | I , I , I 'm , I am absolutely mortified , because , I have to say I think that erm , I got in the car , I do n't have very far to drive from the N E C , erm , twenty minutes and I 'm home , but I go on the M 1 motorway and er , and I never gave it very much thought , and on Monday when I was told Dave , what had happened , erm , there but for the grace of God . |
| 7 | I 'm sorry I kissed you earlier , but I swear on the Bible I 've no intention of ravishing you on the kitchen floor before supper — or any other time . ’ |
| 8 | The frizzy-rugged beaner at the wheel shouted something and threw himself around for a while , but I kept on not not smoking quietly in the back , and nothing happened . |
| 9 | How can Christ be a perfect penitent if he is really sinless ? putting it in ordinary terms : if you are completely innocent of a crime , no one is going to make much sense of it if you say : ‘ I am not guilty of this offence , but I confess on behalf of others and wish to represent their guilt . ’ |
| 10 | But I put on my best , my only , suit and climbed the rickety stairs to his tiny office . |
| 11 | By the way , to anybody that 's listening to this , I 'm not really huge but I put on five pounds since I stopped smoking . |
| 12 | ‘ I doubt if His Grace would ever stand up in a court-room to give evidence on my behalf , but I counted on Magistrate Peck being afraid to put it to the test . ’ |
| 13 | I understand that there will not be one , but I end on this note : that will allow the official Opposition to say that they did not oppose the Bill because there was no vote on Second Reading . |
| 14 | ‘ But I thought on Saturday , Rodie had arranged for — ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Many people tend to specialise in a certain topic such as sport or pop music but I concentrate on general knowledge . ’ |
| 16 | One or two of them might be related to me , but I work on the assumption that my children will have access to most things and personal experience of some . |
| 17 | I know the answer I will always get , but I work on the dripping water principle . |
| 18 | Older players thought I was an upstart , so they made a point of scrapping with me but I thrived on it . |
| 19 | But I rely on stocking up whenever I visit the States — I take an empty suitcase and bring it back full ’ |
| 20 | I started back to the field but I fetched on round and went home instead . ’ |
| 21 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
| 22 | And I was really wrecked and I was I was n't even actually ill I just sat , well I was eventually but I sat on this wall for about four hours , yeah |
| 23 | MacPhail said : ‘ I twisted my knee early in the second half but I stayed on the field . |
| 24 | But I plan on living to a healthy old age . ’ |
| 25 | Another way of saying ‘ I had no evidence , but I picked on him . ’ |
| 26 | And then in the air it stiffens very slightly as it cools down , but I think on a nice warm day like this is might be . |
| 27 | Now I have considerable respect for the House of Commons ' Environment Committee but I think on this occasion they must have been tired and emotional when they wrote that . |
| 28 | Sadly we 're seeing things too often which have expertise but I think on this occasion we should support the community arts team and not delete the item from the budget . |
| 29 | Now the Noble Lord , Lord Merlyn Reece and one or two other have argued against that , but I think on the Your Lordships would feel that there should be a wider constituency , that being so should these recruits be secured by co-option , by appointment , or by some other way . |
| 30 | Yeah but I think on the back of the giro there 's a thing where you have to countersign it saying I authorize so and so |