Example sentences of "but i [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I liken it to an opposition party in a parliament , or a critical press ; acting as a consclence and a brake , but not in power and unlikely to assume it . |
| 2 | Do n't ask me how — but I knew it without a shadow of a doubt . |
| 3 | But I sensed it within her . |
| 4 | But I , I mean I use it as a , that may be the psychology behind it , but I use it as a bad example of , for obvious reasons , and there 's a real bad example , and there may be some politics behind it , there 's What I think is a good example : ‘ Southeast Arts ’ sorry , ‘ Southeast Tourist Board , South of England Board . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't really drink myself , but I keep it for guests . |
| 6 | I ca n't read , but I took it to the priest and he read it to me . ’ |
| 7 | No , we had these two meetings ago , but I bring it with me on meetings for anyone who 's . |
| 8 | But I owed it to Jacques and Marie-Christine . |
| 9 | Gerald Brennan , writing just two or three years after the war , says in The Face of Spain that the slow hand-clap to attract the attention of waiters had died out , but I heard it in several places in the north . |
| 10 | He recognized that this was contrary to the opinion of the pope and others at the papal court , but he put it forward as his own : ‘ others certainly may have thought of it , but I received it from no one ’ . |
| 11 | The Jolly Farmers has been demolished , but I remember it as a brick and pantile structure at the top end of the town . |
| 12 | That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record . |
| 13 | It could be just down to good digestion and calm dreams , of course ; but I take it as a sign of happiness . |
| 14 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
| 15 | And it must be , I 've been up here twenty-three years , it must be getting on for thirty years old that teapot and er I could n't have afforded that money for that stainless steel teapot , as those days , but I had it with my divi . |
| 16 | But I had it from Makepeace , who was here at the time . |
| 17 | In fact I broadcast that material , but I cut it into three programmes , and I , I cut in the questions I would have asked if he 'd actually given me a chance to ask them . |
| 18 | It is quite adequately furnished but I wish it to be in really bon ton . |
| 19 | And er that 's how I performed the , but I kept it to myself all these years you know and never told anybody what I 'd done because I think it was terrible . |
| 20 | It 's wet through and 75% burnt but I kept it for you . " |
| 21 | Miss I done it , but I left it at home . |
| 22 | I could have brought her Undry so easily , she thought ; but I left it at Ben Hesketh 's … and then told Adam we should take it to Andernesse … |
| 23 | But I left it at that . |
| 24 | But I put it at the bottom of the list and consider it can really be done without . |
| 25 | But I put it on the table because it is a risk . |
| 26 | Well I er well I do n't , I , but I put it on video er so I er had a look at it this morning . |
| 27 | I was bringing my own but I put it in the wrong pocket of my coat and it fell through the lining and smashed . " |
| 28 | Slow , he wrote , but I like it like that . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , I 'm sorry , but I like it like this , ’ she said . |
| 30 | Mhm , I like it , but I like it like that better . |