Example sentences of "but i [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I hope not for two weeks — and then with any luck not on a Friday , or I may have to ask Doctor Masters to deputise for me . ’ |
| 2 | But I went on to bigger clubs . ’ |
| 3 | I was meant to talk for fifteen minutes but I went on for three-quarters of an hour . |
| 4 | yeah , but I get up at five |
| 5 | but I mean how about little Mel , would n't pick him up |
| 6 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 7 | But I kept away from that side of the coast , so that the people of Blefuscu would not see me . |
| 8 | But apparently they know that I 'm really forward which is absolute , actually not very true cos Ed said that I was quite forward and he , I was only forward with him because the person I got off with just before him was bloody forward and it made me a bit forward but I calmed down after that , you know ? |
| 9 | But I got down to ten stone . |
| 10 | Next morning was fair and sunny , with a breeze , but I journeyed duly into outer space , to tackle the problems of my party on Terra Secunda . |
| 11 | But I work closely to any budget I 'm given and in effect my service is free , because although I charge a £30 flat fee , it 's deducted when an order is placed . ’ |
| 12 | I know he asked me to stay but I wanted more for some reason . ’ |
| 13 | But I do n't at all mind saying what I think I should want done in the circumstances . |
| 14 | They said I could only stay one week , but I stayed there for two , and they did n't know . |
| 15 | Now I do n't think of us here and neither , certainly myself , I I would not claim to be any form of artist or expert but I think a lot of us can enjoy er getting our hands dabbling with paint erm paper mâché and other activities and in fact having that opportunity of ex enjoying those experiences that 's we ought to be able to offer to people in Cambridge and many peop children in schools they they do get opportunities but I think particularly amongst older people who 've never had that opportunity and I think you should be do so . |
| 16 | In that sense the traditional notion of Picasso as a more conceptual artist than Matisse holds but I think only in that sense . |
| 17 | But I think out of this we 'll all look back you know and things , I mean it 's a bit of a cliche , but er it 's not gon na be the same again I do n't think it is gon na be the same again in Blaenau I think people have changed . |
| 18 | Of course the problem is whether erm people enter those subjects because of their religious interests , or erm whether their religious interest develops as a result of studying those subjects , but I think certainly in this country there are a large number of people who are Christians and have a religious interest who are in the astronomical sciences . |
| 19 | I mean I 've backed out of going , having , I 'm supposed to be working on that on the stalls as well but I backed out of that and said I 've got a hair cut , erm , so I 'll have to be done last . |
| 20 | erm I mean as I said before , I do n't have relatives out in the Gulf , but I feel immensely for these men that are out there , men and women , and also for the news reporters , I mean nobody 's actually said what an awful job it must be for these news reporters and sort of camera crews that are actually erm doing this sort of wonderful job of bringing us back here all this information . |
| 21 | And er I am I am a great great believer , but I feel out of that myself , as one of the things I 'm feeling out of . |