Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] i [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you pat me on the bottom and send me home , and hope I 'll ‘ keep in touch ’ ! |
| 2 | But you touched me on the cheek . |
| 3 | Sorry about the mess but you caught me on the hop like . |
| 4 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 5 | And erm I did n't get the actual job I went for but they put me on the , on the relief register so that I go round to different people 's homes or different big hospitals and different Mencap homes relieving people when they 're on holiday or if they 're short of staff or something like that . |
| 6 | I pulled him away and tried to get him upstairs in case he was traumatized for life , but he kicked me in the balls . |
| 7 | Yeah , yeah was kind , it was kind of them , yes and we went all round the shops and er I thoroughly enjoyed it and in the new Co-Op as well you know , I thoroughly enjoyed it but he took me in the car so that we did n't have to hang about you see |
| 8 | He did not always understand my French , but he showed me round the school , and talked a lot , very fast . |
| 9 | When he 'd finished at the sink I came out and wound myself lovingly around his legs but he shut me in the kitchen . |
| 10 | This might have been all very well for my ego but it put me in the position of a complete novice , with my boss listening critically from the platform to everything I said on his behalf . |