Example sentences of "but i [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's always easier to talk about warts and carbuncles than it is to focus on beauty spots , but I hope to get the balance right this morning . |
| 2 | You can knit row one at the usual cast-on tension , but I prefer to increase the tension to three on one of the carriages . |
| 3 | My stomach went all queer inside but I managed to push the message between her icy fingers and kiss her forehead before I pulled my hand away . |
| 4 | It took me about a day each to write , seal , stamp and post this letter of mine , but I managed to get the thing off in the end . |
| 5 | I was n't in I was n't in in that song but I went to watch the play |
| 6 | But I intend to drive the strategy that is already in place and leave my successor to drive it even further . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You have to be competitive to keep on competing but I try to instil the value of the social side of it in my dancers . |
| 8 | In the end I agreed to do this but I remember leaving the meeting literally , I am afraid , in tears and saying that although I would obey the majority I would resign from the Government afterwards as quietly as I could because I should have failed to uphold an almost lifelong conviction … |
| 9 | ‘ But I 've heard the stories ! |
| 10 | It has but I 've turned the stat back up on the cylinder just made the boiler cut in again cos that 's that 's why the boilers cutting out cos it what it does once it gets up to temperature then it 'll shut itself off . |
| 11 | We were leaking goals but I 've plugged the gaps and with McMenemy 's help , got a vote of confidence from chairman Keith Fisher . |
| 12 | But I 've studied the place a little . |
| 13 | ‘ Thanks , David , but I 've bent the rules enough ; I really ought to get on to the village and see to this wretched food distribution . |
| 14 | ‘ But I 've seen the police already . ’ |
| 15 | But I 've seen the time it was . |
| 16 | That 'd be a bit too drastic , but I 've cut the intake by about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 17 | Well we do n't know , but I 've tried the education authority , they have n't got any in stores at the moment . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , but I 've got the return half , thank you . ’ |
| 19 | Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business . |
| 20 | But I 've got the sense to know what I ca n't do . |
| 21 | But I 've got the tools to fix him . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I lose count , ’ went on Robert , ‘ but I 've got the feeling we 're due for another bout of banging the forehead on the carpet . ’ |
| 23 | And in the in the sixties and seventies it was all the rage , but I 've got the feeling it had a |
| 24 | Er but I 've got the potential to make a lot more money as a self employed person . |
| 25 | He 's a very good durable sort of fighter , but I 've got the power the technology and the tools to beat him . |
| 26 | ‘ All right , I was a fool to blurt out what I did to William , but I 've paid the price , have n't I ? |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , but I 've read the books as well . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ , ‘ Probably I was a little overwrought , but I 've weathered the crisis now … |
| 29 | Beales said : ‘ I was sure you would say that , but I 've taken the precaution of declining to give it to your men . |
| 30 | But I 've cracked the collection problem . |