Example sentences of "but i [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My stomach went all queer inside but I managed to push the message between her icy fingers and kiss her forehead before I pulled my hand away . |
| 2 | It took me about a day each to write , seal , stamp and post this letter of mine , but I managed to get the thing off in the end . |
| 3 | I was n't in I was n't in in that song but I went to watch the play |
| 4 | I managed to drive out of the hospital but I had to stop the car and was violently sick . |
| 5 | Soon after this I embarked on another essay , under what stimulus I do not now remember ; but I had formed the habit , not of revising or tinkering with an unsatisfactory piece , but of writing something else instead . |
| 6 | ‘ But I had reached the stage where I found it difficult to be motivated for run-of-the-mill games . |
| 7 | I hit the first man with the wooden end of my gun and he fell down , but I had to shoot the second man . |
| 8 | But I had noticed the sincerity of the British queen towards the Shah . |
| 9 | When I first started on the shoot , Sam Fawcett said that I need n't bother about the whisky and the cartridges but I had to watch the grouse , and not to let anyone come past them and pick one or two out . |
| 10 | They did n't arrest me , but I had to leave the college . |
| 11 | My Arabic was rusty but I had studied the language in the 1970s and knew the Gulf reasonably well . |
| 12 | But I had to face the fact that most of the pupils were completely untouched by every part of the curriculum . |
| 13 | ‘ But I had to buy the hat and tie . |
| 14 | ‘ I managed to punch my boilie out to the edge of a gravel bar about 60 yeards out , but I had to play the fish towards the top as I brought it in because there are a lot of boulders on the bottom , ’ explained Lee . |
| 15 | But I had informed the police and asked for help even before the doorbell rang . |
| 16 | ‘ But I had to make the effort , on behalf of the Division . |
| 17 | But I 'd rang the number |
| 18 | I had n't , I 'd borrowed it from Duncan but I 'd heard the Hell 's Angel crack so many times before I suddenly decided to charge him for it . |
| 19 | Connie Fraser was n't really any of my business , but I 'd liked the way she was taking this whole bit . |
| 20 | But I 'd closed the car door by then and was heading for the deli . |
| 21 | But I 'd bought the wrong weedkiller , it was Tumbleweed and I found out later it 's only lethal to tropical fish , apparently I should have bought pathklear which is much stronger . |
| 22 | But I 'd had the foresight to build up a formidable stockpile and there 's no imminent danger of running out of my favourite footwear . |
| 23 | But I 'd had the taste . |
| 24 | But I failed to make the connection . |
| 25 | The shops were opening and I browsed for a while in one that sold books as well as newspapers and magazines , but I failed to find the American edition of Rodriguez 's book . |
| 26 | But I chose to do the instrumental album , even though it was a lot smaller scale , because I had more control . |
| 27 | ( know thine enemy ) I wanted to know everything there was to know about lymphoma , but I decided to save the questions — and the wit — for my own doctor who has an excellent sense of humour . |
| 28 | Previously , this lecture series had been on the history of rhetoric from classical times , but I decided to redesign the course , dealing with literary language ( especially poetry ) from a modern linguistic point of view . |
| 29 | But I intended to follow the same course of action as I had over the earlier incident : to say nothing until he gave me an opening . |
| 30 | I do n't know what possessed me to do so but I started twitching the squid like I would have done a deadbait piking when suddenly the rod thumped over ! |