Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I saw that time was much more like the growth of Mary 's reputation , devious and ambiguous , than it was like the straight line , moving remorselessly forward , which Western thought has forced it to prefigure . |
| 2 | but I had that ages ago in one of my |
| 3 | Yeah , but I got that bit wrong |
| 4 | Dolomite , its in the paper , its in the paper for five-fifty , but I told that lady last night is it , what , what is , what 's , what 's your minimum offer , I said well I want four hundred for it I 'm not going to take any less so I was , I was sort of and |
| 5 | But I possessed that night an almost total recall of physical sensations . |
| 6 | In fact there were very few guide dogs at that time and erm I 've never felt that erm it 's , I mean maybe just my erm silliness really but I , I never wanted a dog lying about all day because once at the office I stayed put as it were until it was time to go home and I could have taken the dog I suppose during the lunch hour but I preferred that time to erm to reading |
| 7 | Shit , but I gave that bastard a headache ! ’ |
| 8 | She was dead frightened and was pressing on the bell and everything , but nobody came that night . |
| 9 | But she added that legislation offered a better chance of producing an acceptable framework than other suggested options . |
| 10 | But she added that training is necessary for it to work , backed up by personal supervision for the workers once the training is complete . |
| 11 | But she cured that child . ’ |
| 12 | But she stressed that death is not always the aim of those who make a suicide bid . |
| 13 | But she found that background sound levels at New York 's J. F. Kennedy international airport are 51–98 decibels — nearly as loud as an approaching aircraft ( Environmental Pollution . |
| 14 | ‘ But who made that telephone call ? |
| 15 | There were some who were initially repelled by the controversy which surrounded Paisley , but who overcame that revulsion and became committed supporters . |
| 16 | In the last section we have come to the interesting conclusion that B may alone exist of all our variables but we reached that conclusion on a magnet shape not much used in practice . |
| 17 | Mr Cahill said : ‘ There are no plans to sell Rover ’ , but he admitted that defence remained the core of BAe 's business . |
| 18 | But he felt that position to be untenable . |
| 19 | But he stressed that crime was beginning to decline in his city . |
| 20 | Morrison said later he felt Border had edged the ball , but he agreed that television replays appeared to show the ‘ woody ’ sound was probably the ball touching the stump . |
| 21 | He went on to say that he realized that Hall 's larger scheme might not materialize , but he thought that Government Offices in a similar style to his building would eventually extend to Great George Street where they would be seen in relation to the Abbey and the Houses of Parliament . |
| 22 | But he added that patience had limits and he might wait a few days or two weeks . |
| 23 | But he added that patience had limits and he might wait a few days or two weeks . |
| 24 | It was a dramatic gesture , a revelation ; it put him in a position of power , if only for a moment , but he liked that position and his primacy had been denied in that group of irreverents . |
| 25 | I do n't know when he had last closed his eyes with a clear conscience but he did that day . |
| 26 | But he wanted that job so badly he was willing to kill for it . |
| 27 | Mr. Coghlan accepted that a verdict of death by natural causes aggravated by lack of care can be returned in accordance with Reg. v. Southwark Coroner , Ex parte Hicks [ 1987 ] 1 W.L.R. 1624 , but he submitted that section 19 of the Act of 1988 does not require a coroner to hold an inquest where he foresees that such a verdict is possible . |
| 28 | We need to understand the position of the Sanhedrin , Jesus is really representing great changes in their tradition great a great revolution really and we know that what he was doing was was sort of getting Christianity to grow out of Judaism , but it meant that Judaism had to move to one side . |
| 29 | But it stipulated that cabinet decisions should be taken by majority vote , rather than by consensus as the National Party wanted . |
| 30 | After St George 's , almost all Unionist candidates ran without making promises to support the coalition ; this did not mean that all of them joined the diehard group when elected , but it showed that coalition was no longer seen to be a winning ticket . |