Example sentences of "but as i [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not supposed to be fiction , but as I write I find myself obliged to make a judgement about Leavitt . |
| 2 | I had no intention just then of attempting such a thing , but as I lay awake that night I realised that if it had n't been for Lili I might have felt it necessary to attempt to describe to someone , anyone , what I knew of God and what he had asked of me . |
| 3 | ‘ But as I remember , you were submerged in a barrel of water . ’ |
| 4 | The half-hour is up , but as I turn off my tape recorder , Lord Archer shows no signs of wanting to finish . |
| 5 | But as I turn for home through the valley meadows , with rooks massing above the woods on either side , I begin to strike lucky . |
| 6 | ‘ But as I keep trying to tell you , publishing is not that easy to get into — especially at your sort of salary level when you 've no experience . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , but as I keep trying to get through to you , I do n't want to teach any more . |
| 8 | But as I get older patience , a commodity not particularly noticeable in the past , has gradually appeared in my personality , like a sandbank silted into place by too many frothing tides . |
| 9 | But as I 've already told you just , it was very ironical that I should l go back down the hole in er Germany again . |
| 10 | But as I 've never played this game before I did n't know the rules . ’ |
| 11 | But as I 've already mentioned distributed database theory has been around a long time . |
| 12 | But as I 've said , it will , it will be preserved in my case . |
| 13 | It would er but as I 've already said the bed looked made er totally un-slept in it looked as though it had just been made up from new and un-slept in which is why I took that course of action . |
| 14 | ‘ But as I 've always said , I 'm happy at Leeds and the position is no different now . ’ |
| 15 | I 've spoken to Angela and Angela said , just alter the week numbers on the , on your P forty five , but as I 've just said to Neil if I do that , that is gon na throw it out for year end when I give you yo your green slip . |
| 16 | and as you say if you go to college , but as I 've said to Penny you know you want to try and find out if there are any courses that are going , if you want to get back |
| 17 | Yes but as I 've I 've seen many a bus coming towards Norwood Gardens goes round the little and back out again . |
| 18 | On the particular afternoon to which I am referring , his lordship would still have been in his mid-fifties ; but as I recall , his hair had greyed entirely and his tall slender figure already bore signs of the stoop that was to become so pronounced in his last years . |
| 19 | But as I recall , I did not actually disembark again until I was quite near Salisbury . |
| 20 | it was a long time ago but as I recall they were n't too bad , to even , if you 'd have stuck at it , you 'd have got better , it 's the same with every job you get better at |
| 21 | Bartram s query regarding Kalm s American observations was dealt with : Miller had not seen whether Linnaeus had included them in his Species of plants , but mentioned that Kalm had published them himself ; ‘ in the Swedish language ; but as I do not understand it , so I have not been curious enough to send for the book , nor do I hear any good character of it . ’ |
| 22 | I could go back and leave myself some notes , a bit of helpful advice ; but as I do n't know yet what I 'm dealing with , I ca n't leave myself anything useful . |
| 23 | exactly , it 's the only way you can do it and I would n't do it any other way , because I do n't bel I do n't , I do n't think it 's fair , if I was using the phone continually I 'd get rather annoyed , I mean that I 'd , they 'd have a right to be annoyed , but as I do n't I think it 's ridiculous so I 'm not hardly surprised at all , so I think it 's stupid as you say , but there you go . |
| 24 | They did not look as though they were suckering in the baleful way that the ordinary stag's-horn sumach does , but as I have not grown either myself yet , I can not vouch for their good behaviour . |
| 25 | ‘ But as I have invited you here , let's discuss the subject a little further at least . ’ |
| 26 | A note from Bartram in 1745 seems to imply a slight difference of opinion as his account of some American pines had been questioned : ‘ But as I have great opinion of Miller 's learning and judgement , I am engaged in duty and friendship to inform him the best I can . ’ |
| 27 | But as I have already said , individual tastes vary enormously and the best advice is to play as many different models as possible and buy on personal suitability . |
| 28 | But as I have shown , the function of grammar depends upon its being subservient to lexis . |
| 29 | So , on Silver and Knitmaster machines , set the cam lever on tuck and side levers back ; on Brother machines , put both tuck buttons in and the Change knob on KC , and on the Toyota 901 and 950 , set the selection lever or dial to the central tuck position and card levers on C. The other Toyota machines have two methods of knitting tuck , but as I have only have the 901 and 950 I 'm not qualified to write about the 858 or 787 . |
| 30 | I could probably still have got across , but as I have said , the stones of the causeway were thick with seaweed , and treacherous even when exposed . |