Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arrival of Deacon Billingsley should have given me the satisfaction that my telephone call had been treated seriously , but I sensed this policeman was not going to offer me any satisfaction at all . |
| 2 | it 's still a but it 's a different camp , but I wrote this time because what he tells us I forget , I do n't know if you 'll be able to read it or not so |
| 3 | But I had this polyneuritis coming on and I gr gradually went paralysed . |
| 4 | It had never been done before , but I had this premonition , and of course it proved true . ’ |
| 5 | But I had this instinct that you 'd have a better chance if you first spent some time with me — ’ |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | We had been wakened as on my first morning by the hideous 6 a.m. clattering of dustbin lids ; I had n't really expected a bugle but I found this noise intolerable . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She could have refused to go back to the Ward house , but she owed this woman everything . |
| 10 | But she returned this month to visit her sick , elderly mother Bessie . |
| 11 | But she hated this place . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You 're not going to believe this , but we got this place for 399.000.000,00 ! ’ |
| 14 | And I ca n't remember how it first came up , but we had this argument . |
| 15 | But we chose this sector because it is growing . ’ |
| 16 | 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 … ’ |
| 17 | Craig : ‘ Yeah , but they had this element where they could write classic pop chart songs , and then again they could write ten minute mad songs as well . |
| 18 | But they had this goalkeeper , do you remember him , his name was Thomasescu , he was about ten foot two , eyes of blue , and he stopped everything , Kevin Hector had a go , Alan Clarke , they all did , even Peter Shilton in goal . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | Most of them were now entitled to a ground job — ‘ flying a desk ’ — but they regarded this prospect with horror . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He had often told her that it was a social disadvantage having the sort of wife he could n't take anywhere , but he dropped this line when she started appearing beside him at literary lunches and old school do 's . |
| 23 | But he planted this gaol in the middle of Buckingham as a sort of rebuke to the townspeople . |
| 24 | The burgess might have no land at all in the fields ; but he had this right to graze his cattle after Lammas over any man 's lands , freely and wherever he liked . |
| 25 | But he had this thing about us [ seven brothers — two in Jamaica — and two sisters ] concentrating more and more on school work . ’ |
| 26 | A little gig It was n't a gig either , he did have a gig but he had this thing , a sort of long shaped er What would you call it ? |
| 27 | One of my favourite presidents , Theodore Roosevelt , president from the early part of the twentieth century and known as the damned cowboy erm you might be interested to know how people become president erm Theodore Roosevelt was an arch imperialist and got very excited about the er war with Spain er America had a s little brief war with Spain at the end of the nineteenth century erm over the possession of Cuba , and erm in eighteen ninety eight , and this aroused great patriotic feelings in all red blooded Americans and especially in Theodore Roosevelt and er er Roosevelt formed his own company of cavalry called the Rough Riders and erm Roosevelt wore glasses and was asthmatic but he had this group called the Rough Riders , sort of early kind of Clint Eastwood stuff , and erm anyway he g he was engaged in the war with Spain er and there was one wonderful moment in the war Spain in which the Spaniards were at the top of a hill called the San Juan hill er and er Teddy , as he was known , of course he gave his name to the teddy bear , did you know that did you ? |
| 28 | Duroc had barely heard of the Ancient Adversary , but he knew this entity was one of the few Great Unseen Powers that stood in opposition to the Dark Ones , the extra-dimensional masters to whom Nguyen Seth had dedicated his long life . |
| 29 | He formulated in haunting terms the longing expressed by Platonists for the source of all beauty : " late have I loved Thee , O Beauty so ancient and so new " , but he recognised this longing as itself the working of God 's gift of love in man — in theological terms , the grace of the Holy Spirit . |
| 30 | But he suppressed this suggestion . |