Example sentences of "but she [vb -s] i " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | There 's a girl my elder brother wants to marry , and my family want it , too , but she likes me better , and I like her , and her parents wo n't force her . |
2 | But she tells me she still does not feel free . |
3 | Phone in one hand , and sandwich in the other , that 's Linda , but she tells me she 's a good cook , and erm , she 's also told me there 's only , she 's only ever been with one guy in her life , |
4 | I think about phoning her mobile but she hates me doing that so I do n't . |
5 | But she says I sometimes just walk across the road and go to the Meeting House at you know |
6 | She could go on to the other station but she says I enjoy being in so much I use it . |
7 | But she says I 've had but she says and she says she was the one wanted me over to sit |
8 | But she says I 've had enough of this now and it there do n't help |
9 | I wish I could love , but she says I ca n't help you . |
10 | ‘ She is a dragon , ’ said Dinah , ‘ but she keeps me from annoyance , and Papa had the room designed so that no one could get straight in . ’ |
11 | ‘ She 's a menace , but she makes me laugh . ’ |
12 | I 'm not very good at it , but she makes me try even though I keep burning it . " |
13 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
14 | But she makes me uneasy . |
15 | But she makes me laugh though . |
16 | But she assures me that you are far better off with a lensless eye than with no eye at all . |
17 | Barbs is n't so old or so smelly , but she reminds me of him . ’ |
18 | ‘ But she commands me ; I can not help but do her bidding . |
19 | That 's , well , it kind of lets my steam off a bit ; it does n't hurt , but she knows I mean business . |
20 | She has n't , of course , but she gives me the landlord 's name . |
21 | She gives me flowers , but she loves me not . |
22 | No , but she wants me to bring you back for a meal . |