Example sentences of "but [conj] i [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know about you but once I pick these Mills and Boone books up I ca n't stop reading the flipping things . |
| 2 | But once I decide that 's settled I 'd notice it cause you could n't seem to get down . |
| 3 | The plates still had some food on them but although I found some meat , it had a strange gloopy liquid on it so I gave it a miss . |
| 4 | Oh yeah , and I quite like that , but if I had that , I 'd like to I would n't be tempted to decorate his room |
| 5 | But if I do that , well , I copy the C four , C six down have C five , C seven and then when I go in and insert the extra rows then er , well that formula 's not going to refer to those new rows that I insert it 's still cell the right of price and the right of sales the wrong sales certainly . |
| 6 | But if I give some names to Mr next week I think yes well I 've got them at the music later today so I can ask them then . |
| 7 | If I did it and it did n't come out as good as I thought , or if I failed , then I 'll deal with that , but until I take that chance I 'll never know . |
| 8 | I linked both books to the theme of ‘ Outsiders ’ , not because of the title but because I felt both books told the story of two lives lived on the edge of society . |
| 9 | But whilst I regret any possible oversights , the information is at best only as good as my sources , and the history is as seen from my viewpoint . |
| 10 | ‘ But before I do that , there 's something I 'd like you to do for me , ’ Matthew said firmly . |
| 11 | I want at the end erm , Chairman to give you my views of what is meant by er , an integrated and balanced community because I think that 's that 's quite important , but before I do that , I 'd like to mop up one or two er points right at the end in response to some of the contributions that have been made , and I 'll deal with them , Wincup , Curtis , Brook , er and Thomas , if that 's acceptable er to you , and really as far as Mr Wincup is concerned , he 's quite properly raised the issue of procedural issues about how the Greater York authorities is going to address moving towards er an agreed location , and quite clearly I 've got to reaffirm again that the County Council will want to look at both the greenbelt local plan report and your panel report before er it moves erm er forward or looks at any conclusions it may be moving to in the light of those er in the light of those reports , and quite clearly , as we all know , there are a number of options . |
| 12 | But before I do this , let me make a philosophical point . |
| 13 | But before I leave this particular part of my criticism er perhaps er in case the minister er er does n't accept what I 'm saying I could quote er the words of the right honourable gentleman , the President of the Board of Trade er who writing before he was a President er in his book where there 's a will he said accountancy firms ought I believe , the debarred from doing any other work for a company for which they act as auditors and in a number of other countries there are laws which circumscribe auditors in this way and prevent to prevent any possible conflict of interest . |
| 14 | ‘ The first set was incredible — it was like a final — but after I got that set David seemed to lose heart a bit , ’ said Corsie later . |
| 15 | ‘ It has no name , ’ Sapan said , ‘ but when I told some other people I brought here that it had no name , they said to me that it was called Narnia . ’ |
| 16 | It sort of erm in Italian wine once or twice but when I ordered this I took the care to order up |
| 17 | Yes , but when I put some back , back packed . |
| 18 | and it was in quite a big space , I could off got in behind him and then changed if I 'd reversed in but when I saw this other chap sat in his car and then he indicated he wanted to pull out , so I let him go |
| 19 | I have heard of considerably larger numbers being taken by other people but when I hear such tales I am inclined to wonder how it is that so many can become so jammed together without suffocating in such a small hole . |
| 20 | But when I inserted another two SIMMS the system came up with 6Mb of RAM as expected . |
| 21 | but when I did this , I did this |
| 22 | But when I play that kind of match in Germany , it is great . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But when I see those stones here , and ponder — as I was doing when I so nearly precipitated myself upon you — ’ he laughed , gently , at his own folly and again rapiered a look to Miss D'Arcy who , in control now , returned to him the dreamy interest of the truly hooked — ‘ it was Egypt I thought on . |
| 24 | At first sight the signatures of the two deceased seemed to be the same , but when I examined some of the fillings more closely I saw that they were quite new . |
| 25 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 26 | Well now , although it was not much more of a job really than an errand boy 's , but as I did that for five and a half years I got to know the people at the pawnbrokers , the cycle agents I got to know them so well , I knew the staff , I got to know the people who were pawning clues and that regularly , I was getting more information every year . |
| 27 | but as I say that 's , that 's the only thing , but then on the other hand they ca n't fall out with me will they ? |
| 28 | Three pound fifteen shillings yeah and that 's how , that 's how the work went at that time but as I say these boatmen erm they used t they used to sit down on lock gates day in and day out and did n't have a ship to come in but I 've kno kno known them to row down the river at high tide or it 's before high tide and there 'd be another erm , there 'd be other boatmen there , one was called , he went down , he used to go down and get 'em going , there used to be a race between these two families or the and the first one got the boat , the first one roped it in you see , or wh what we call roping in , moor mooring the ship up , that was |
| 29 | But as I say some of it may not er no , be relevant to yourself . |