Example sentences of "but i [adv] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I struck the bream tore off downstream and dragged me into some weeds but I eventually got it to the bankside , ’ said Matthew . |
| 2 | A friend gave me a mini for scrap , but I immediately saw it as a hippo , so that 's what it became . |
| 3 | Well I sent it to the B B C , I sent it to Duncan but I also sent it to the the Lady a shorter version to the Lady their competition and I said their competition was gon na be on the eighteenth in their issue they would give the names of the of the winners , but I had looked in the Lady yesterday in Smiths and there was none of nothing about it , but I do n't think I 've won anyway because it said you 'd be notified by post so . |
| 4 | But I also believe it to be true . |
| 5 | It then took some time to raise the heavy engine and cut the rope from the propeller , but I finally managed it before drifting ashore . |
| 6 | She did n't go so far as to give me her telephone number , but I prudently copied it from the instrument at a point during the interview when she was distracted : when one of Brenda 's children had somehow slipped into the room to find a drum stacked halfway down a pile of similar toys . |
| 7 | It looked tall but I only saw it for a moment . ’ |
| 8 | But I only associated it with wine . ’ |
| 9 | Might have been my idea — well , it was , but I only said it in a fit of temper ! — but she carried it out . |
| 10 | I may be a little biased about this one , but I now consider it to be of a very high standard . |
| 11 | But I almost owe it to the reborn me not to take that kind of shit from any man again . |
| 12 | And I think that 's really sort of all encompassing , but I really see it in that way . |
| 13 | Yeah but I never sold it to Simon . |
| 14 | I had intended to try and ring Jo as soon as I got in , to find out what the hell was going on , but I never made it for the house was in turmoil . |
| 15 | I was interested in drawing but I never saw it as part of a potential career . |
| 16 | I 'm , I 'm certainly as I was going to come on to explain and the way you will see ourselves working , is not people who sit in the Town Hall and just turn out reports , I mean the kind of work we do and the way we work means that were actually very much involved in the community groups , but I mean if it was , if it was thought to be an issue that we needed to have greater community involvement , i.e. to resurrecting that forum then that 's something that , you know , we may need to address , but I never saw it as operating like that anyway , I mean I saw it as it 's almost like in a cabinet of members mainly . . |
| 17 | But that one was and I heard a year ago but I never saw it till the bus driver I went with some years ago up to John O'Groats . |
| 18 | But I never wanted it for myself , in spite of what everyone thought . |