Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [that] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they did n't know their names at the time , they spotted Dominic Wetherby and the American boy , Lee Horan , going into the public bar , but no-one suggested that the two parties should join up . |
| 2 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 3 | I had applied for an Adjournment debate on this subject , but I realised that the hon. Member for Rotherham ( Mr. Crowther ) had a prior right , representing as he does the NLVA . |
| 4 | I did not want that , but I believed that the top salary awards were so out of line with what we were proposing in the rest of the public sector that in the real world of industrial relations it made my job infinitely more difficult . |
| 5 | A glance at the ‘ qualities ’ revealed that Froggy 's death had certainly not made either the front or the back page , but I guessed that the Daily News might have a headline somewhere . |
| 6 | The Federal Electoral Institute released in early September the final results which corrected preliminary estimates of the Aug. 18 mid-term congressional elections but which confirmed that the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) had won a huge majority of seats in the Chamber of Deputies , the lower house of the Congress [ see p. 38385 for details of other simultaneous elections ] . |
| 7 | She only had about fifty pence left from the money she had borrowed from her stepfather the day before , but she hoped that the young Italian barman , who fancied her , had not yet been sacked or moved on and would give her a margarita , free . |
| 8 | The house felt lonely without him , but she realized that the strange feeling she had was one of happiness . |
| 9 | The dark green sun umbrella above them threw shadows across Guy 's face , but she realised that the teasing gleam had crept back into the narrowed gaze . |
| 10 | He was gazing at her unblinkingly , his eyes darkened by desire , but she sensed that the old anger was surfacing again . |
| 11 | But she denied that the only reason she later gave evidence against Frak was to avoid any suspicion that she 'd hit Mrs Fribbens . |
| 12 | in the information so we had to we had to assume one for the purpose of public consultation but we said that the final decision on standards would be taken er in another time . |
| 13 | You can use the whole thing with a mouse ( is there anything you ca n't use a mouse with these days ? ) , but we found that the I-beam cursor was anything but stable with a mouse . |
| 14 | The Treasury of 1943 was not skilled at arguing about economic theory or the details of national income statistics , but they felt that the new economic approach ignored practical problems which they , rather than the academic economists , were best qualified to judge . |
| 15 | In 1956 Japanese companies experimented in the Antarctic with electrical equipment , but they found that the electric current impeded the blood circulation and this lowered the quality of the whale meat . |
| 16 | The various Lives had been written from a variety of standpoints , but he observed that the best of them had been inspired with hate — hate , not of Jesus , but of the ‘ Christ of dogma ’ . |
| 17 | He affirmed that he would continue to work for the maintenance of the status quo , but he felt that the Great Powers could no longer avoid discussing the international consequences which would ensue when Turkey fell . |
| 18 | May I draw his attention to comments in the recent issue of ’ Community Care ’ by the hon. Member for Birmingham , Perry Barr ( Mr. Rooker ) The hon. Member for Perry Barr is not an apologist for the Government , but he said that the Labour party was committed to a mixed economy . |
| 19 | I told the doctor ; but he said that the whole adventure was just a dream , the result of cold , tiredness and a violent bang on the head . |
| 20 | When Chaos came he fought as best he could but he saw that the pitiful weapons of the Elves and the peaceful sorceries of the Everqueen could not stand against the might of the dark . |
| 21 | But he knew that the other Beastline creatures looked to him for guidance , and he had accepted the leadership they imposed on him , for he knew that there must always be those who govern and those who serve . |
| 22 | So far as Cold War issues were concerned , de Gaulle was an anti-Communist but he believed that the bi-polar world of the 1950s had brought an ever-present threat of nuclear conflagration and effectively left the Superpowers as the only states with true independence in foreign affairs . |
| 23 | But he believed that the subsequent provisions for bad debts on commercial loans were realistic . |
| 24 | But he stressed that the promised shortlist of possible sites-for trench burial and underground disposal — would not be announced until ‘ later this year — probably in the autumn ’ . |
| 25 | But he added that the internal enquiry would publish its findings shortly . |
| 26 | The girl wore no other jewellery — now , at least ; but he noticed that the long lobes of her ears were pierced , and that there was a slight graze on the side of her neck . |
| 27 | In his youth he was taught , in accordance with Hindu custom , to repeat the thousand names of God , but he realized that the thousand names of God were not exhaustive and that while God has many names and many forms he is also nameless and formless . |
| 28 | He did n't know the thugs ' identities , but he guessed that the tall thin man was Michael Lee . |
| 29 | But it seemed that the longed-for reunion with his family was not to take place . |
| 30 | This was largely unexpected by civil servants at the Board , though not by Churchill , but it meant that the educational problems of an extension and perpetuation of the existing system were minimised . |