Example sentences of "but [subord] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank goodness we were never occupied — not so much because of what the occupiers might have done to us , but because of what we would probably have done to each other . |
| 2 | He rejects it not because of what his experiments , or his introspections , tell him but because of what he calls ‘ an insuperable logical difficulty ’ . |
| 3 | Not just because of his initials , but because of what he is , young , unbroken , wild . |
| 4 | Clearly , on the evidence of Hood 's letters of defence in the press this week , they support him , not because of what he says , but because of what he is — from , and still part of , a traditional working-class background . |
| 5 | But as for what she had exchanged it for — that still seemed more like fantasy than waking reality . |
| 6 | Now when did the I suppose the credit card they brought but as to what you say I mean the , these , these repossessions it 's not the fact they ca n't afford the mortgage . |