Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that they see this , mind I told you before that this brace was awfully sore and that painful . |
| 2 | This is the mental adjustment that has to be made at Verdon — you start your route with several hundred metres already below you , but once you rationalise this it 's just a steep , very solid crag ! |
| 3 | But although he took this very stiff line about theism and organized religion , it 's not true that Russell himself was void of religious feelings and interests . |
| 4 | But if one rejects this view and credits people with a capacity to judge matters for themselves this does not mean that one should take an uncritical attitude towards poll findings . |
| 5 | It seems a bit odd to be asking people to join the CTC in order to further the interests of cycling in Scotland ; but if we get this leaflet off the ground we can then tell HQ what we are doing for them . |
| 6 | But if we reject this view in favour of memory as a property of the brain as a system , rather than of its individual cellular and molecular components , then memory will depend not on distinct biochemistry but on just which cells and synapses are showing the changes , where they are located in the nervous system , and which other cells they make contact with . |
| 7 | All the letters suggest different ways in which the Bill can be improved , but if we accept this awful timetable motion tonight a Bill of nearly 100 clauses will have very limited time for discussion , and the guillotine will fall in Committee . |
| 8 | ‘ To say I am absolutely gutted is a total understatement — but if he thinks this is the end of the matter , he 's got another shock coming . |
| 9 | But if he believes this a matter for regret , if he believes the decisions that established that " right " were either unjust or inefficient or both , he sees no reason why he should extend the principle underlying these decisions any further than other judges already have . |
| 10 | But if you think this is bloody " — and he laughed his hacking tubercular laugh " our ancestors would n't think of going to sea in a new prahu which had n't first been rolled into the water over the living bodies of seven women in their first pregnancy ! |
| 11 | There are several ways in which you can do this — I use a professional glazier 's staple gun which is both quick and efficient , but if you find this too expensive an investment when you first begin pressed flower work you can use a hammer and nails instead . |
| 12 | The other catfish would also have to be left out , and there would be little scope for adding more fish later , but if you bear this in mind , you could create a comparable scene in a 36″ tank for quite a bit less outlay . |
| 13 | But if you erect this wall around yourself we shall be forced to throw stones . |
| 14 | disclose : I feel : irritated/like I do n't matter/defeated. predict : if you do this , I can work more efficiently/I know you 're busy , but if you do this we 'll both save time on discussions like this/I 'd be better motivated if you did . |
| 15 | But if it meant this I ought to know it . |
| 16 | But while we know this , we must still believe that objective truth is obtainable ; or we must believe that it is 99 per cent obtainable ; or if we ca n't believe this we must believe that 43 per cent objective truth is better than 41 per cent . |
| 17 | But before we follow this trail we must investigate the rhetoric of the Querelle , and its legacy . |
| 18 | But before I do this , let me make a philosophical point . |
| 19 | But before I leave this particular part of my criticism er perhaps er in case the minister er er does n't accept what I 'm saying I could quote er the words of the right honourable gentleman , the President of the Board of Trade er who writing before he was a President er in his book where there 's a will he said accountancy firms ought I believe , the debarred from doing any other work for a company for which they act as auditors and in a number of other countries there are laws which circumscribe auditors in this way and prevent to prevent any possible conflict of interest . |
| 20 | Occasionally several males may form loose groups together , but whether they do this or not the essential point here is that it is the combined efforts of the females that control the herd , and rear and defend the young . |
| 21 | But though he handles this well , Jordan fumbles everything else , mistiming the comedy and drawing an unbelievably bad performance out of de Niro . |
| 22 | It sort of erm in Italian wine once or twice but when I ordered this I took the care to order up |
| 23 | and it was in quite a big space , I could off got in behind him and then changed if I 'd reversed in but when I saw this other chap sat in his car and then he indicated he wanted to pull out , so I let him go |
| 24 | but when I did this , I did this |
| 25 | But when you reach this age you should be able to control it ! |
| 26 | But when you consider this in the context of its well-weighted precision and speed , it gives little cause for complaint . |
| 27 | No , but when she sent this you 'd think that maybe she would put in it |
| 28 | Her gentle requests for him to sit down met with only short term success but when she used this scolding method his behaviour became far worse . |
| 29 | but as we stress this is a subsidiary argument that we point |
| 30 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |