Example sentences of "but i [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | We sparkled with energy , but I struck few sparks . |
2 | The arrival of Deacon Billingsley should have given me the satisfaction that my telephone call had been treated seriously , but I sensed this policeman was not going to offer me any satisfaction at all . |
3 | It is unfortunate that the talk comes quite so soon after Christmas , but I hope all members living locally will make every effort to come and I know that they will be glad they did . |
4 | I fully accept that and we hope , but I hope some monitoring is taking place . |
5 | ‘ They say bad luck comes in threes — but I hope this time that 's not true . ’ |
6 | ‘ He is taller than me and he has a sense of humour but I keep that side of my life very private , ’ she said . |
7 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
8 | it 's still a but it 's a different camp , but I wrote this time because what he tells us I forget , I do n't know if you 'll be able to read it or not so |
9 | But I received another note from Mellowes ; it said I was not to leave the office ; I was not to answer the phone ; above all I was not to speak to the press . |
10 | I always remember like I were only little but I remember these things you know . |
11 | But I remember these choirs all over the place in the town hall in Wexford singing these stunningly beautiful chants in Irish . |
12 | But I remember those times with my father as being very traumatic . ’ |
13 | The cast and crew get on famously and are throwing yet another party — a ‘ vicars and tarts ’ one I believe ( you 're made for it ) , but I decline this evening 's invitation out of reverence for my Mom . |
14 | But I saw that time was much more like the growth of Mary 's reputation , devious and ambiguous , than it was like the straight line , moving remorselessly forward , which Western thought has forced it to prefigure . |
15 | ‘ They 've given me a roomette or some such , but I take this thing seriously . |
16 | MIKE LESTER : ( Breaking in ) That 's all very well , but I 've another proposal entirely . |
17 | ‘ Yes , ’ replied Burton , ‘ but I get more money . ’ |
18 | No , yeah but I mean that leaflet very likely would n't have you know I mean I think this this leaflet |
19 | But I mean that thing ! |
20 | I 've got no idea but I mean some pictures are very expensive |
21 | But I mean this week er this weekend er , Mr died opposite erm , they 've got a , a detached house there and erm somebody went |
22 | Well this , this was a letter of the , granted it was eighty nine , but I mean this paragraph just said , you know , if we , does say that , you know , if we established a , a demand , and I do n't see why we should n't have a bash at . |
23 | And your totems have the same names as my masks , but I made those names up ! |
24 | ‘ Everyone says how awful the teenage years are , and we had our share of rows and problems , but I enjoyed those years with my children — far better than the baby or toddler stages . ’ |
25 | but I had that ages ago in one of my |
26 | I decided I must go up to Addis Ababa and try to get permission to start again , but I had little hope of succeeding . |
27 | I did it willingly because I still loved his company so much , but I had little money . |
28 | Everybody wanted that , but I had some contacts , I knew I could get in there . |
29 | But I had some pain passing water today . ’ |
30 | Herman asked me to tell them all about Greece — but I had more sense than to do so . |