Example sentences of "but i [verb] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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1 | But I managed to give out some positive body language , and at least came through with a win . ’ |
2 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
3 | But I keep bouncing back . |
4 | I can count the number of trout that I have taken from this lovely loch on the fingers of one hand and blank days are the rule , but I keep going back for more . |
5 | I 'll ask him all about them and look at them but I keep putting off buying them . |
6 | I 'm trying to go in a straight line but I keep ending up where I began . |
7 | By whom I do not know but I intend to find out . |
8 | ‘ I 'm not sure how high we went but I remember looking down at the surf . |
9 | But I 've fallen on to the floor often enough to know how to get up . |
10 | I used to but I 've given up since my accident . ’ |
11 | But I 've made up my mind . |
12 | Of course , he has his faults , but I 've grown up alongside of him and , I can tell you , he 's a good guy . ’ |
13 | But I 've grown up with David , or , should I say , I grew up idolising him . |
14 | But I 've packed up a bundle of bedding — towels — things like that for you to use in the meantime . ’ |
15 | Well the environment bit there erm but I 've missed out readathon |
16 | Cos she used to say , ‘ I never had daughters but I 've ended up with three . ’ |
17 | But I 've stopped off at a street market on the way over for socks and shirts and thin garish underpants . |
18 | " But I 've failed up to now ? " |
19 | Well I 'll have to accept that I do n't know where that came from but I 've got down here state 's interest |
20 | But I 've copied over to the same place , what it seems to be doing provided the cell pointed out , you 're looking at the top left . |
21 | I feel bitter that while I was out there I was somebody but I 've come back as a third class citizen . |
22 | But I 've come down a bit now . |
23 | Er , but I 've put down here that erm but possibly some retail outlets although the Saturday is the busiest day of their week they might important merchandise to arrive particularly at , you know , Jaeger shops , expensive shops where like the price of the item warrants paying a Saturday surcharge . |
24 | ‘ But I 've brought back lots of chocolates … ’ |
25 | But I had to pop up there and move back all the bits and bobs and the debris and everything . |
26 | But I had made up my mind that I must not get emotional , so I hid all my feelings . |
27 | And it was very dark , but I had to go up every night , and I did n't like going up in the dark . ’ |
28 | I usually get one , but I had to go up to Hertford this afternoon . |
29 | More camera tips , but I had run out of film and mimed to avoid denting his enthusiasm . |
30 | But I had to find out . |