Example sentences of "but i [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerald Brennan , writing just two or three years after the war , says in The Face of Spain that the slow hand-clap to attract the attention of waiters had died out , but I heard it in several places in the north . |
| 2 | In fact I broadcast that material , but I cut it into three programmes , and I , I cut in the questions I would have asked if he 'd actually given me a chance to ask them . |
| 3 | But I left it at that . |
| 4 | but I put him on some medicine I got from the chemist and it seems to have calmed it down but his nose is more er hot and cold |
| 5 | Slow , he wrote , but I like it like that . |
| 6 | Mhm , I like it , but I like it like that better . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I 'm sorry , but I like it like this , ’ she said . |
| 8 | ‘ I had to coax two into it because they are not very experienced cook , but I chose them for that very reason , ’ he says . |
| 9 | Now I filed my nail this morning cos it was catching , I did n't file it long enough obviously , but I filed it with that erm you know you opened up the |
| 10 | ‘ It has emptied our account , but I got it for twelve hundred and fifty francs . |
| 11 | I w , but I liked him in that one on a Friday night . |
| 12 | I WAS married four years ago to a girl I loved very much , but I lost her to another man , because I was so incompetent when it came to having sex . |
| 13 | There were other possibles — mostly underworld figures — but I discounted them as red herrings . |