Example sentences of "but [prep] [adj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | — With Mr. Gould all this is very different — he has sufficient to live on , whether his subscribers pay or not , & can well afford the innumerable little expenses of printing — but for poor I — I have just nine and twenty times resolved to give up Parrots & all — & should certainly have done so — had not my good genius with vast reluctance just 9 & 20 times set me a going again . ’ |
| 2 | In the end it was n't just for me but for those I wanted to share my life with . |
| 3 | Before that I had never known that human beings could do such things to others , but after that I knew . |
| 4 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 5 | But after that I was always seeing her , all over the place . |
| 6 | ‘ He thinks I can manage the first two years ' bills at Dickie 's new school , but after that I 'll be cleaned out , so God alone knows what 'll happen . |
| 7 | ‘ I was very angry at Phillip Island for about 20 minutes but after that I calmed down . |
| 8 | But after that I did take up private nursing . |
| 9 | She came into the school grounds , I 'm pretty sure she crossed the headmaster 's lawn , but after that I lost her . ’ |
| 10 | Then she added with sudden firmness , ‘ But after that I shall go home . |
| 11 | I know Chris was here doing doing his own calculations on books but after that I mean the I think on the Sunday I he came in and did some work . |
| 12 | ‘ When I was 12 I won the one length freestyle , backstroke and breaststroke events at the local schools gala , but after that I concentrated on the backstroke most of the time . ’ |
| 13 | it then for that lesson , but after that I could n't remember again how to do it |
| 14 | Well , I think for the children 's sake , I 'm going to stay put until Christmas , but after that I 'm really going to have to try and find some sort of stability for my children . |
| 15 | But after all I mean , he 's put in new plumbing , he 's put in a new boiler , all the plumbing , he did n't pull his muscles at all , he went to pick a light carton out of the back of a car , twisted his |
| 16 | I did n't know how you 'd feel about leaving Nicky , but after this I suppose … ’ |
| 17 | I may possibly be able to greatly increase that distance but of that I can not speak with certainty . ’ |
| 18 | But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter . |
| 19 | I began to smell the warmth and the love , and feel the peace , but above all I began to see the inspiration of the human spirit . |
| 20 | But above all I would hope to go home with a faith in some measure renewed by the experience of seeing close at hand how many of the Peruvians live theirs . |
| 21 | Oh I think so but above all I think that the helpers and their smiles are the other things that are so important , after all they are the bedrock of the fund . |
| 22 | But above all I shall remember the community spirit that emerged . |
| 23 | But in general I warmed to his fresh and unmannered account of this Concerto , and the orchestral accompaniment under René Leibowitz is especially supportive . |
| 24 | But in general I think people accept the fact that with used vehicles erm that , depending on the age and mileage of the vehicle they 've got , they accept that obviously they ca n't have a thousand pound cover on say a hundred thousand mile Sierra for example . |
| 25 | I thought the man was crazy really but in 1966 I did develop an interest and started to attend the services … |
| 26 | But in 1981 I tried to go further and identify a set of criteria which any proposed biochemical or cellular correspondent of memory formation would have to meet if it was to be regarded as a candidate memory process . |
| 27 | I tried to take over the kitchen , but in this I was thwarted by my father who had his own ideas about food , and who would keep interfering and making a mess , whereas I preferred to clear away and wash up as I went along . |
| 28 | But in this I have . |
| 29 | But in 1914 I wanted to be purely English so as to be able to offer myself untainted to Lily . |
| 30 | Other diets left me feeling tired and sickly but on this I feel great . |