Example sentences of "but i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 've only had sex with one person , ’ you say . |
| 2 | ‘ When I see the Giotto frescoes at Padua I do not trouble to recognise which scene in the life of Christ I have before me , but I perceive instantly the sentiment which radiates from it and which is instinct in the composition in every line and color . |
| 3 | Picasso 's Guernica is ‘ OK for some but I do n't like it ’ , as a young boy put it . |
| 4 | I was still overwhelmed by the painting , but I was now aware that I was overwhelmed , and this , somehow , seemed to establish a distance between this emotion and me . ’ |
| 5 | In that respect , Kundera could have fooled at least one of his readers ; but I do see that it belongs to the point of it all that the uncommon Jaromil should be thought humanly representative . |
| 6 | ‘ I was able to soar up , to fly , I could rock in the air like that balloon , I could fly away with it , choose any of the four points of the compass , but I remained where I was , I stopped above this small , painful , blessed piece of earth . ’ |
| 7 | It purports to be based on the recollections of courtiers and retainers hunted up after the fall : but I have heard it suggested that the author did not take to the Picador edition 's cover display of a picture of Haile Selassie , perhaps on the grounds of a misleading particularity . |
| 8 | But I have the impression that Ursula was very much her own heroine . |
| 9 | Patrick held both hands up in a gesture of peace , he smiled for a moment ; I 'm no trying to get at you personally but I just fucking feel that you cant expect the teacher to be the everything , the heavyweight boxing champion of the world . |
| 10 | It 's true that extracts such as Phoebe 's ‘ Think not that I love him … ’ from As You Like It ( Act 3 , Scene 5 ) or Viola 's ‘ 1 left no ring with her … ’ from Twelfth Night ( Act 2 , Scene 2 ) may be all too well known to a panel , but I can not agree with an adjudication policy that would ban these pieces from the audition . |
| 11 | Major roles for older women are not so common in Shakespeare , but I think it is better not to choose a character such as Queen Katherine from Henry VIII , who needs a richness of seniority to convey the dramatic interest . |
| 12 | — But I 'm afraid I tire the company . |
| 13 | ‘ Twenty , but I 've lived more than you 'll ever live . ’ |
| 14 | But I cheat so that 's out . |
| 15 | Siegfried , I do n't know what you 'll think , but I 've been recommended for the MC — and I 've recommended every single NCO who was with me . |
| 16 | I was terribly excited of course , to win the BBC competition but I do feel that going into the theatre first was a great help . |
| 17 | But I think my most rewarding part at drama school was Carol in David Storey 's play Sisters . |
| 18 | But I love playing comedy and then I 'm not very tall . |
| 19 | But I prefer the stage really . |
| 20 | But I think it 's probably different for different people . |
| 21 | Perhaps doing Shakespeare spoils you for that , but I think having a text that is good is important . |
| 22 | I think it 's very important but I think a lot of us are very lazy . |
| 23 | I know it 's silly but I find it hard to take them seriously and really concentrate and not be distracted by the local cat cleaning himself on a window ledge or some such thing . |
| 24 | At the East 15 Drama School I have taken audition technique sessions , which was all fine and large but I encouraged them to write their own material as well as having stock pieces to do . |
| 25 | But I think it 's always a case of what you bring to acting — bring to the parts that are being offered to you . |
| 26 | But I had very little idea of anything at the time and I did n't do very much acting . |
| 27 | One job has led to another but I do remember a particular film audition which I walked out of , much to the concern of everyone , my agent , and the casting director . |
| 28 | But I think I got into drama professionally in the first place by accident . |
| 29 | It was neither pleasant nor unpleasant , though the endless peeing , he wrote , the endless getting up in the middle of the night when the ice clung to the windowpanes and the taps were frozen , that was more unpleasant than pleasant , but it was not that , he wrote , these things - will not change , my bladder will not improve and next winter the ice will still cling to the panes and the taps will still freeze , but I will not notice them . |
| 30 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |