Example sentences of "but i [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I woke up in the middle of the night and could n't get back to sleep , so I decided to bake a cake , after all . |
| 2 | ‘ But I woke up in the middle of the night in agony . |
| 3 | I said I had to piss , but I ran out of the house and walked around the streets wondering what the fuck to do and trying to imagine what Dad was saying to Mum and how she was taking it . |
| 4 | I suppose I was on my way to call for Millie , but I walk on past the house instead , obscurely ashamed to have caught her father unawares . |
| 5 | He looked at me as though he had seen me somewhere before , but I passed by with a curt nod . |
| 6 | But I came back as a Gnome . |
| 7 | ‘ But I came down to the theatre and was assured it was suitable for children so we came with open minds , ’ she said . |
| 8 | But I came out with an O level ! |
| 9 | But I came out of the stand through the fire exit and I ca n't get back in . |
| 10 | ‘ But I came late into the first-class game , I 'm 28 now and I really want to be in the big time before I end my career . ’ |
| 11 | but I went straight for the directory . |
| 12 | ‘ I remember that , ’ said my mother , ‘ but I went home in the Embassy car . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ No , but I went down to the quay one Sunday and I heard her . |
| 14 | I mean I says , look I says , I 'm not , I 'm not saying you ca n't have your parties or whatever , I says but I says not in the bedrooms . |
| 15 | It was the last lesson of the day and I could n't help it , but I come out with a big burp in the middle of the lesson and she goes , ‘ Fay , are you feeling all right ? ’ and I says , ‘ Yes Miss , of course I am ’ , and then she goes to me when I did it again , ‘ FAY ! ’ and I goes , ‘ It 's all right ’ , I goes , ‘ Pardon me , Miss . |
| 16 | Butchering 's a tasty part of , if I wanted to do anything I 'd take a leaf out of , I would say is that , but I delegate down through the butchers . |
| 17 | Er but I mean basically at the end of the day , I mean you have to think about to what extent you can increase your sales . |
| 18 | But I looked out of the window as I spoke to him . |
| 19 | I do n't know what the others did but I made straight towards the front of the packed train , threading an unsteady way through seemingly endless sleeping cars ( passing my own berth ) , through the still busy central dining car , the full and raucous open-seat dayniter , three more sleeping cars , the crowded dome car ( dining room , kitchen , lounge , observation deck ) , another sleeping car , and finally reaching the horses . |
| 20 | Yeah , but it 's very , it 's well , can , I do n't suppose it can be , I might of had one of the speakers out but I know there in the back of the speakers , you had this loft insulation it 's full of that |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't use drugs myself , but I grew up in the South Bronx where heroin use was all around me . |
| 22 | I got very close to God , I felt emotionally drained but I benefited tremendously from the trip . |
| 23 | I mean to move on silently escaping , but I crash straight into a trolley , pushed by a bloke looking like one of the heavyweights in a James Bond film , so I leap away at speed as he snarls after me and knock over a pile of bean tins . |
| 24 | Oh , yes , it took me a bit of time to recognise you , but I got there in the end . |
| 25 | I was not Boat Race standard , but I got by at the level of intercollege competition . |
| 26 | Well I did n't know Spanish , but I got by with the Italian , you know , I had , I had once , . |
| 27 | The other soldiers had wives and families to go to , but I felt slightly at a loss away from the TA . |
| 28 | ‘ It will be the third time I 've been measured for a blazer — but I missed out on the last two ( matches ) , ’ Lane added . |
| 29 | I do n't know if it was the Irish temper in me or the Mexican , but I leapt on to the first marine I could reach . |
| 30 | The back was broken and there was only one plank left to sit on , but I sat down on the peeling green paint . |