Example sentences of "but i [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she called me later , and said , ‘ Excuse me , but I just talked to Fred and I told him the story , and he 's invited you to tea tomorrow at his house . ’ |
| 2 | Well , having had to avail ourselves of the help of the officer who got rid of our gigantic wasp nest , I should like to say what a superb job they do , but I just wondered in view of the tremendous number , whether there is some kind of way of preventions . |
| 3 | But in latter days they came with a tank and they put it out and put it in a trailer you see but I just worked with bags when it was the first of it . |
| 4 | I 'm a governor at present er working in prison service headquarters in Edinburgh , but I previously worked in Pentonville , erm I think it depends on what you mean by do by prisons do a good job , I think that 's a terribly vague and wide ranging question |
| 5 | I picked up my knife and attempted to copy the old lady but I soon got into difficulty . |
| 6 | I thought I 'd exhausted every possibility , rivals of every pedigree from the Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies to a rough-trade gamekeeper out at Shotover , but I never thought of family . |
| 7 | Yes , I was aware of him , but I never managed to lassoo him . |
| 8 | Well er School , but I never went to school not un , at five . |
| 9 | It seems strange now , but I never complained to classmates or teachers . |
| 10 | no , no , my Lord I have three applications to make in the light of the evidence given by Mr yesterday and this witness today , er the first is this in terms of this witnesses evidence , I do n't know whether your Lordship appreciated it , but I certainly did in terms of evidence , that in cases of some brochures there were a number of editions , in other words first , second and maybe third edition |