Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I do n't know , ’ says Charles , ‘ but I met this girl in television the other evening , and she said people are going to be dropping off your Matterhorn thing like fleas off a dog . ’ |
| 2 | But I like this guitar for a number of reasons . |
| 3 | Not only so , but I believe this statement to be deeply theologically inadequate and that various points to be at variance both with scripture and with the Westminster confession of faith the standard and the principle subordinate standard of this church . |
| 4 | Look , I know you do n't want to talk about it , but I think this spell of being apart will do us lots of good . |
| 5 | erm So that at Newhaven at the present day you now have a fossil cliff , now largely buried because the tertiary sands and clays which sit on top of the chalk have slumped over , and so much of the original chalk cliff face is , is now buried , but you have this mass of slump material on what was formerly beach , and the gravel ridges stretch for what , one hundred , two hundred or more metres erm from the bottom of the cliff . |
| 6 | Probably she was , but she knew this side of the company belonged to her husband and any involvement on her part would seem to him an interference . |
| 7 | But she undercuts this realization with footnotes which describe similarities , but no differences , in the articulation of gender in homosexual relationships ; and which parallel the unconscious splits generated by discourses of gender , with those generated by racist discourses : ‘ When I made generalisations about women ( almost always derogatory ) , I did not include myself in the group I was talking about … . |
| 8 | When we began our work on the secondary stages we considered whether to add a fourth profile component , knowledge about language , but we rejected this plan for two reasons . |
| 9 | You 're not going to believe this , but we got this place for 399.000.000,00 ! ’ |
| 10 | But we wanted this album to be right , so we took our time , organised it all carefully , waited until Dave was available , and together we put a lot of thought and effort into it … ’ |
| 11 | think that the effects of training should be the main focus of research on gender differences in spatial abilities , but they connect this programme to ‘ a sincere wish to see what cognitive sex differences might remain if the sexes were treated without discrimination ’ ( 1986 : 1017–18 ) . |
| 12 | 2 They recognise that the system has tended to provide for " strong " government in that most post-war governments have been able to count on an absolute majority of seats in the House of Commons , but they regard this strength as a bad thing . |
| 13 | The KPP argument made sense , but they compromised this position by claiming that the Ukrainian and Silesian territories seized in the first years of independence should also be returned to their respective ‘ owners ’ . |
| 14 | Most of them were now entitled to a ground job — ‘ flying a desk ’ — but they regarded this prospect with horror . |
| 15 | For example , Clive and Rose Greenacre 's early blueprints had left them both distrusting dependency and the reliability of others , but they handled this problem in complementary ways . |
| 16 | But he planted this gaol in the middle of Buckingham as a sort of rebuke to the townspeople . |
| 17 | But he had this thing about us [ seven brothers — two in Jamaica — and two sisters ] concentrating more and more on school work . ’ |
| 18 | But he sees this foundationalist as a weak-kneed sceptic , who ought in consistency to go further ; who ought , in fact , to doubt whether he understands the proposition that other minds exist , and so ought to be a solipsist . |
| 19 | Business is tough at the moment , but he loves this time of year , lambing is his favourite time and he 's a really good shepherd . |
| 20 | But he earned this appreciation with his charm , which was often mistaken for ability . |
| 21 | But what did this way of life look like at street level ? |