Example sentences of "but i [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | It was of the kind that one is warned against sleeping upon , but I knew she did sleep upon it . |
2 | Darius now wants chips , but I tell him to make do with a biscuit sandwich . |
3 | Erm but I mean we do have erm a session with them and and really all the information we gave was very sort of basic understanding . |
4 | she only had the bloody cheek to charge us last year for a turkey wrong , but I mean I did get that sorted out afterwards . |
5 | yeah , well I was there the other day and erm the bell went and nobody sort of moved and I thought I think , I know , you know , so I got up and I washed me cup of tea like , you know , they looked at me as if you know oh there 's a keen , but I mean I do think it 's important to do that , because not only that it 's not fair for the |
6 | But I mean I do get used to being on my own and then like I mean I say he 's there like the , the other morni he went down his mother 's and he did n't come back till three o'clock so he 's not there constantly all the time . |
7 | They 're not bad really , they , no but I mean you do get a few damp ones now and again do n't you ? |
8 | But I mean it does pick up . |
9 | Er , I du n no what you think but I mean it does state there , it 's quite interesting if one reads it out |
10 | So that answers all those years that I have been conducting these seminars , it answers my question not in the way I was particularly happy about I have to say , but I mean it did answer my question and then it may be them having you know I mean like sort of things I may not be particularly happy with , but maybe it is good that the papers are reflecting what the community wants . |
11 | I tried to make my excuse sound plausible , but I fear I did hurt him ; he had been pronounced unfit for military service and he was lonely and smarting at his exclusion from the experience of his peers . |
12 | This column is genuinely not written with a sense of criticism , but I believe it does demonstrate one of the problems that is at the very heart of British tennis — lack of a sense of vision , a sense of belief and a passionate desire to achieve at the very highest echelons of the world game and not to be content to make a comfortable living in a relatively small pond . |
13 | I 'm not a church-goer. but I think they help solve people 's problems . |
14 | It 's just a little bit sort of er the waves themselves are nice but I think they do need something else in it just to erm break up the linearity of the er er , of the composition . |
15 | But the , the fact is , that what I , my plea to you today , and and my plea to the committee yesterday is , that I do n't want this to be in the political arena , it is in the political arena , but I think we do need to er er er take it out of the political arena , for the benefit of of all the people that that put us here . |
16 | I would n't actually say that you know , one has got to suffer unduly , but I think we do have to be very , very careful that we do n't just play into the hands of the drug manufacturers ! |
17 | Good about everything , good salesmen , erm , but I think we do have to take er , Jack 's thoughts on that , that really perhaps we are begging the question when we , just forget ourselves and keep going till three , four o'clock in the morning whatever it is , and then we 'll get in the car and drive home . |
18 | But I think I do appreciate that the Economic and Development has invited me on . |
19 | But I think you do need to plan a bit , you know in spite of the fact you 've got the degree to do , if , if you can spend time going to see these people . |
20 | I 've never done it but I think you do have to send that in . |
21 | Very much a practical proposition , but I think you do have to be fairly keen and interested . |
22 | But I think it does influence you … |
23 | The whole idea of judging by one hundred days was resurrected in the Kennedy time and people applied that to Wilson and to Heath and to Margaret Thatcher , and maybe it 's just a media hype , but I think it does give us some view and I think we need more of a view on this man , because a lot of people are saying will the real John Major please stand up . |
24 | Now I 'm not for a mom , I 'm not for a moment suggesting that it 's something that would be picked up on a regular basis , but I think it does mean , as you rightly say , that er , if , if , if such a procedure does arise then I 'm conscious that I 'm in a one off situation , I know there 's at least one of our colleagues on our benches who has this on , with children on a more regular basis . |
25 | Erm yeah I , I , it 's the idea 's there but I think it does lack a little bit of impact . |
26 | That does n't really describe Denim but I think it does have a quality , something inhuman and plastic and mechanical . |
27 | I 'm handy at giving out advice , ’ he glanced at Marc , ‘ but I guess I do need to sort things out myself . |