Example sentences of "but i [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I work in pastels quite a lot , but I tend to work in colour all the time rather than pencil or charcoal . |
2 | But I like to walk at night . |
3 | But I got to carry on walking , cos I do n't have no card . |
4 | If I had landed on the ski-track , which was hard-packed and icy , I 'd have probably broken my neck , but I seemed to swerve off centre and thus landed in a soft snow-bank and lay panting , stunned and breathless , for a few minutes . |
5 | There are plenty of people in the music business who would like it that way , but I have to bear in mind that people get ill , home-sick and miserable . |
6 | I have no quarrel with the thesis , and considerable admiration for the accumulation of evidence , though what presumably were the chronic delays of publishing leave some of it a little dated , But I have to admit to irritation with the manner in which the material is presented . |
7 | I 've enjoyed it all and got some great memories , but I need to concentrate on family life now . ’ |