Example sentences of "but [verb] i [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | But kiss me again before we go , Harry . |
2 | it was someone else that told me but told me not to tell anyone and I had to beg it out of him cos I just wanted to know . |
3 | But show me where this man went . |
4 | But let me just tell you this ; self-pity will destroy you far more assuredly then Ryan could ever have done . ’ |
5 | Erm in fact a similar effect happens , I 'll be mentioning this in the lecture but let me just mention it now . |
6 | They may , let me just explain the track then , in those situations they may well be investing in the depots , maintenance and so on , but let me just |
7 | But let me just tell you we it 's all counted , it 's all written down . |
8 | Er I will I will hand over but let me just say this that my instinct is that it a policy expressed in the way you 've you 've suggested is just superfluous because all you 're doing is describing in in a po in upper case letters , the situation as it is and that that my answer is that it would that there would be no need for such a it would be gratuitously ap it 's an unnecessary statement . |
9 | If you read this end to end Ron I 'd be very grateful but let me just point out to you we 've agreed twenty eighth , if you bring it forward great . |
10 | But let me just deal with labour and plant at the minute and we 'll see , we can do a similar thing . |
11 | Let me just , le I 'm not really a , I 'm not really a very numerate political scientist but let me just run some numbers by you to give you an idea of the escalation of the change . |
12 | Forgive me I do n't want to go back that far , but , but let me just put the point you 've made to Professor Hoskins . |
13 | Well you 've made this study and you 've written a book , Policies for Educational Accountability I think it 's called , which is just recently come out , and I 'm sure that will be a , a very worthwhile contribution , but let me just ask you a personal questions . |
14 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
15 | Well , we 're going to continue with press releases after lunch , but let me just , I mean in a sense , those were fiction . |
16 | There was … but let me not digress . |
17 | It was a green scarf but let me quickly say that it was bereft of religious significance . |
18 | ‘ You may enjoy playing those kinds of games , but count me out . ’ |
19 | but give me back … |
20 | But tell me why , now ? ’ |
21 | BUT TELL ME AGAIN . |
22 | But tell me how long will all this take ? |
23 | I explained that I wanted the experience of running my own expedition and , after some discussion , he withdrew his objections but warned me not to go further than Bilen . |
24 | Remember , that Hahnemann did nothing lightly and bear in mind his imperative advice : ‘ Imitate me , but imitate me well ’ |
25 | Do no misunderstand me , but understand me fully with reference to my affection for the land . |
26 | They did not say a word but looked me up and down . |
27 | But keep me out of it . |
28 | but kept me behind on some half-baked errand |
29 | Roth says to Levi in the course of the interview embodied in his article : ‘ Your other books are perhaps less ‘ imaginary ’ as to subject-matter but strike me as more imaginative in technique . |
30 | We stood eyeing each other for a few minutes and then to my amazement a jeep came up ; the farmer saw my problem and not only gave me a lift past the bull but took me right to the main road where the bike was . |