Example sentences of "but i [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What about that , but I meant she got ta think about , she 'll want children of own and then she 'll have chi |
| 2 | But I knew they came from my convict , and I felt that having criminal friends made me more common than ever . |
| 3 | ‘ Ah , but I knew we had a first-class lifeguard on board . ’ |
| 4 | If I wrote , his answer might well be on a postcard , but I knew he understood and cared . ’ |
| 5 | However , I did not find the professional ambience all that conducive , but I knew I had to do something with my voice . |
| 6 | As a concession to the New Wave I wore a black shirt , black jeans , white socks and black suede shoes , but I knew I had uninteresting hair . |
| 7 | But I knew I had something to offer and that 's why I wanted to come back and be a manager again . |
| 8 | But I knew I had to look , so slowly I peeped round the door . |
| 9 | ‘ I had no previous experience of minefields , but I knew I had to do something , ’ Dennis said at RAF Stafford . |
| 10 | But I knew I had become involved in something too uniquely bizarre to miss , or to spoil , through lack of patience or humour . |
| 11 | ‘ The bone was sticking out of my arm but I knew I had to carry on . |
| 12 | ’ But I knew I had to get rid of that Jackson' . |
| 13 | ‘ It was tough at the start but I knew I had to hang on to my serve at all costs , ’ she said afterwards . |
| 14 | ‘ But I knew I wanted to do more cakes and could do much more interesting things . |
| 15 | ‘ I was champing at the bit , but I knew I needed a break , ’ he says . |
| 16 | In my last year with Rangers I 'd looked after the S form signings — players like Ian Durrant and Derek Ferguson — but I knew I needed to see what life was like away from Ibrox . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Everyone was watching me but I knew I did n't need to go fast . |
| 18 | Unknown then , of course , but I knew she had talent . |
| 19 | She said no more about it , but I knew she worried when these unexplained absences occurred . |
| 20 | It was of the kind that one is warned against sleeping upon , but I knew she did sleep upon it . |
| 21 | I could see she was feeling she should n't have told me , but I knew she trusted me better than anyone else . |
| 22 | I know she 's my own flesh and blood , but I hope she got whatever was coming to her . |
| 23 | ‘ But I hope you did n't throw it at him , ’ she said . |
| 24 | Steve , I always said to Steven if we have a kid I said I hope it looks like me I said but I hope it got your temperament come out exactly wrong . |
| 25 | no but I keep us briefed so with so we 're up to speed on it and keep those little units , that little campaign feeling here , there and everywhere going . |
| 26 | I do n't know where this Doctor had this idea from but I do n't know how many years ago , but I remember I had my Co-op news every week and , and he said that he could see us going a full circle and I 'm just wondering when he 's gon if I 'll be alive when it comes round again because I , I do n't think that these big mass stores erm as I say they 're all right you see , people with plenty of money with a car they could fill the freezer up . |
| 27 | maybe it was the battle of the Somme , I do n't remember , but I remember I had to go carrying the basket , and mother would go and call on these poor people who had lost their their families . |
| 28 | But I remember I 'd got a box on my mantlepiece erm not only was I using the pessaries but I was also taking these when the period was due . |
| 29 | I could still have easily called in if I 'd wanted to but I saw something advertised in a village saw the board took the number down and phoned them up . |
| 30 | I laughed sometimes when he chased intruders from the garden , but I wished he had n't been aware of the little cat , although I think he only wanted to frighten it away , not kill it . |