Example sentences of "but i be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was pleased with his performance and said : ‘ I am playing well but I am lacking a little bit of killer instinct . ’ |
| 2 | Peter Cole , chairman of Bramshill Parish Council , in whose bailiwick the town would have fallen , said : ‘ I might have an extra beer today , but I am saving the champagne for another 21 days . |
| 3 | The work is hard but I am enjoying every single minute and my peer support is excellent . |
| 4 | Now I am not , of course , challenging the excellence that God requires from us all but I am challenging a tendency to overthrow the radical message of incarnation . |
| 5 | I am fifteen I have just come down here in my lunch hour at school but I am having a good time . |
| 6 | But I am defending the fact that there is an |
| 7 | I 'm not keeping him on the hop , but I am making a joke of things . |
| 8 | But I am making a different point . |
| 9 | But I am making a more general point . |
| 10 | Now he stood behind me , so that I could feel the warmth of his body , but I was facing the box hedge , so close to it that I could n't turn . |
| 11 | ‘ But I was thinking the best time to escape is when all the teachers are n't around to stop you . ’ |
| 12 | DOS 3.3 had been installed on the hard disk but I was using a DOS 2.11 floppy ( supplied with the machine ) in drive A. Ctrl+Alt+Delete would n't work and the reset button booted the machine into drive A. |
| 13 | But I was dreading the French paper to which I had only given the dregs of my time as I had had so much else on my plate . |
| 14 | But I was getting a trifle chilled — just a trifle , you know , and on this beautiful day — ’ he waved a gloved hand at the brilliant sky and the buildings , dazzling in a chiaroscuro of stone and snow , the snow making the grey stone look black , the stone making the snow blindingly pure . |
| 15 | Well I 'm sorry like but I was getting a few interruptions on the landing |
| 16 | But I was asked the same thing after Duncton Wood came out , I said I 'd never do another and I 've written five more . |
| 17 | But I was promoting a Neil Diamond concert and one day he got me up on stage during this tour , and introduced me to the audience . |
| 18 | They ca n't bite you , but I was given a bottle of gin and told to go out and sit on the stairs . |
| 19 | All very ordinary , but I was given the impression that somehow we were just that little bit better than the other families in our street . |
| 20 | Yeah I 'm like that but we had a erm conifer type tree it was only so big but and then I and when we we was unloading off the van , this come off and I dug a hole and stuck it in the garden , in the front garden just by the pathways right that 's that but I was washing the car one day , a nice hot day got my shirt off when I come in course I 'd brushed past it I 'd got patterns of the leaves on my on my back . |
| 21 | I was the best-known face in East Anglia , but I was having a terrible time . |
| 22 | He offered to stop someone , but I was feeling a bit better . |
| 23 | But I was feeling a bit tense and restless , and did n't feel like being alone or sitting still . |
| 24 | But I was feeling the need for some kind of action . |
| 25 | But I was offering a meal that did n't run any cholesterol risks . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought we might have got round to talking new terms before breaking up for the summer , but I was told the board were n't able to arrange a meeting . |
| 27 | It may be poetic irony , but I was attending a convention in Hong Kong and working resolutely for the cigarette manufacturers at the time of my infarct . |
| 28 | ‘ Maybe I was n't disgracing myself on the park , but I was cheating the Sheffield fans and manager Jimmy Sirrell . |
| 29 | ‘ But I was cleaning the bedchamber … the post … |
| 30 | Well I 'm not wearing a swimsuit but I 'm wearing the other things . |