Example sentences of "but he [verb] [adv] [vb infin] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he also endorses a very elaborate system of proportional representation with a single-transferable vote erm this is in the chapter called voting erm it seems to me actually his system is incoherent , but he does n't think that , I mean he argues very strongly in favour of it and various it . |
| 2 | He 's your partner in theory , but he does n't fulfil that role in practice . |
| 3 | You 're going home soon , but he does n't know that . |
| 4 | ‘ But he does n't know that , sir . |
| 5 | But he does not do that ; instead , he supports the Government 's curtailment of that right . |
| 6 | But he did n't do that . |
| 7 | He would have shared the farm with his brother in the end , as was the Irish custom , but he did n't want that kind of life . |
| 8 | But he did n't want that today , surely ? |
| 9 | But he did n't put that bit in his report . |
| 10 | But he did n't mind that . |
| 11 | ‘ He 'd got his pay packet , but he did n't touch that . |
| 12 | She tried to work herself , and got a couple of nights barmaiding , but he did n't like that , and he did n't like one of the children going to nursery . |
| 13 | She had never done it in her life before and she was n't about to start now , but he did n't know that , and as the mention of getting a lift had finally wiped that superior smile from his face she felt more than inclined to pursue it . |
| 14 | They were simply forget-me-knot seeds , but he did n't know that . ’ |
| 15 | She was grinning as she said it , but he did n't take that in and yelled at her about Women 's Lib claptrap . |
| 16 | His decision to sacrifice the newspaper to MacQuillan rather than sacrifice the estate to the newspaper had not met with universal approval , but he did not let that trouble him . |
| 17 | Weber shared the classical elitists ' hopes for developing a systematic social science , but he did not agree that natural science methods could be simply transposed to explain social action or behaviour , since a plausible account of actors ' motives is required for completeness ( Runcimann , 1972 ) . |
| 18 | From across the street a man in a parked car watched him , but he did not know that . |
| 19 | In fact she was at that moment being put in her coffin at the workhouse , but he did not know that . |
| 20 | Yeah , but he do n't know that , does he ? |