Example sentences of "but i [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I tried to shake it from my mind as I shook the water from my hair , but I knew what that face felt like from the inside .
2 I was laughing , but I sensed his sudden excitement .
3 But I tell you one person who 's getting on my nerves is that good looking son at McDonalds .
4 Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend .
5 But I took my English books with me . ’
6 I was tipsy But I heard my twotiming lips say You 're my true
7 But I ask myself one question : what should be the reparation for having been removed from life for 18 years , with my brothers ?
8 NO BUT I REMEMBER MY FIRST FLIGHT WITH YOU , CAPTAIN .
9 But I take my immediate clue from the American critic , Norman Holland : ‘ unity is to the text as identity is to a person ; or you could say , identity is the unity I find in a person when I look at him as if he were a text . ’
10 We are doing what we can , but I take my hon. Friend 's point that it has been an ongoing saga for some time now .
11 Yes , I have the slip somewhere , and my father I did n't keep it but my father must have kept it , but I discovered it one day and it was seven and thruppence I think for the first week 's pay .
12 But I ruined my own life — and more importantly I ruined Ashi 's too — because I refused to admit that I was what I was . ’
13 He could be quite maddening at times , but I had my own concerns and had to leave it at that .
14 That was all very well , but I had my own position to consider .
15 But I bet my bottom dollar she is n't . ’
16 But I kept my big mouth shut .
17 But I know me own daughter well enough to know that she does n't want to lock herself inside a convent for the rest of her life .
18 I may be a layman in terms of aero-space , but I know my own country and I know military thinking .
19 I am young , naïve perhaps , all the things you said , but I know my own mind , I know what you did to him , what you 're doing to me .
20 But I er it was about two f yeah , I put a fiver , but I put it each way , so
21 I did not take it personally , but I thank my hon. Friend none the less .
22 I may not wear a mob cap , but I rake our coal-fired Rayburn daily and ‘ clouds of ash ’ is an understatement of the result .
23 ‘ She did n't want it coloured or layered , but I felt her original style was too long and dragged her down . ’
24 You can rook your employers for as much as you want if you must , but I pay my own way , ’ she said firmly .
25 She 's all of five feet five but I suppose her slim build gives the impression of being petite …
26 But I promised you that painting on your wedding day , and I had to send it . ’
27 The girls I knew at COHQ thought he was particularly unattractive , but I expect his own girls applied different criteria .
28 The European Commission is in dispute with the German Government over the level of their production subsidies , but I assure my hon. Friend that imports from Germany are minimal and that the real competition for the British coal mining industry comes from other fuels .
29 And then there was the farcical , farcical final report I I used to take will be the first to endorse and interpreting those statistics at least in my case course , but I blush what these Consultants have done , let's give you a few examples , sixty five per cent , you see on page three think that changes are necessary , they were asked 'do you think changes are necessary to meet the fifteen transportation problems and to be needs ? '
30 But I owe its initial success to Eliot .
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