Example sentences of "but i [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I love her but I take an intense , cold interest in noting the signs . |
| 2 | It is difficult to say how long this species lives in captivity , but I had an African Snakehead , which I acquired at a similar size to yours , and I kept him or her ( there are no external sex differences ) for 13 years . |
| 3 | " I 'm so sorry to have kept you waiting , gentlemen , " he said , " but I had an important telephone call from Geneva highly profitable call , I might add . " |
| 4 | The Seychelles kestrel had so far eluded me , but I met an English birder while I was trying again to photograph waders in the harbour of Victoria , and he told me a pair had nested in one of the church towers in the town . |
| 5 | Once you were Wigg 's enemy — and this was a judgement reached by him and not by the other person — there was no pursuit and no hostility that he would abandon ; but I remained an affectionate friend because of the other side of his character , which would not even be suspected by those with whom he was in controversy . |
| 6 | It all came down to the last throw the lady who came second had three houses on Park Lane and Mayfair but I threw an 11 and sailed right past ! ’ |
| 7 | The industry still has problems but I sense an increasing willingness for its component parts to work together for the common good . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , we 'll get the cars to keep an eye out for her , but I have an awful feeling in my gut that she is not coming home . |
| 9 | This is not an educated guess , call it a completely uneducated guess , but I have an odd feeling that this is one of your planes , sir — an American plane . |
| 10 | Of Twin Oaks , Gordon Richards said : ‘ The owner is keen to run but I have an open mind . |
| 11 | But I think an important addition would be an analysis of women and cars . |
| 12 | ‘ No name 's been mentioned , but I understand an international construction company has bought out the business lock , stock and barrel , so now the parque aquático will be their baby . |
| 13 | A criticism levelled at these fish is that they are not too attractive — but I feel an active male and female pair in the well-planted tank under optimum light have their own beauty . |
| 14 | Now I was I would n't say surprised because the matter is already well know , but I found an additional piece of evidence for the proposition that while they knew a lot about what happened to their commodities in their countries — how it was produced , how it was distributed internally and how it was sold internationally — they generally did n't have very much information as to what happened afterwards . |