Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb base] [verb] [that] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Any exhibition is worth going looking at and thinking about , but I do think that that is an extraordinarily bad exhibition .
2 I run the risk of sounding patronising here , but I do feel that this is a point worth making .
3 I do not know , but I do know that many homosexuals have not chosen to be homosexual but simply are that way .
4 I can not profess to know how successful , or otherwise , the mystic 's attempts at transcendence may prove , but I do know that all the anorexic is capable of transcending are her own immediate difficulties and that , in most cases , this achievement is comparatively short-lived .
5 How far this was true I do not know , but I do know that any suggestion from her to Harold Wilson was likely to receive an affirmative answer .
6 ‘ I did n't realise what I was getting into , ’ he admits , ‘ but I do know that this will be by far the hardest thing I 've done in my life . ’
7 But I do see that that would perhaps to attain for young people again .
8 earlier but I do realize that that was his way .
9 I mean , come on , but I do understand that some of you were briefed or , or Do n't worry about this now , but we would like this briefing questionnaire back before you leave on Wednesday , er , if you were a late replacement , could you just make that plain on there , er , if you were n't briefed , you 've got the shortest questionnaire in the world to fill in .
10 He really wants the mud to show his best , but I have to say that this ground helped him get the trip . ’
11 But I have heard that that scoundrel El-ahrairah means to come and steal them if he can .
12 This is , of course , titillating information for its readers , but we need to remember that this woman was now said to be happily married ; her child would now be aged 10 and could be quite aware of a trial which was getting widespread coverage in the popular newspapers .
13 Sometimes it is made plain that the Israelites were not directly affected by these disasters , but we have to say that this particular Egypt hardly sounds the sort of place to romanticize about !
14 Hearing people may have had difficulty in access , but we have argued that this arises in the unequal status of the learner ( hearing ) and teacher ( deaf ) .
15 We may talk of such categories as ‘ professionals ’ , ‘ managers ’ , ‘ technicians ’ , ‘ foremen ’ and ‘ manual workers ’ ( and sub-gradations of these ) , but we have to recognise that these terms do not have homogeneous referents , and the degree of real social distinctiveness and cohesiveness of these categories may be highly variable .
16 But we do know that some people have done within Tarmac .
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