Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could insert ‘ Christian truths ’ ( or doctrines or promises ) for ‘ Christian presuppositions ’ , but I prefer to speak this way to focus attention on what a presupposition does rather than on what it is . |
| 2 | The doctor wished to remove a lymph gland for examination , to verify HTLV3 , but I refused to allow this despite considerable pressure and went instead to see a homeopath . |
| 3 | Right , that 's it , that 'll do , I wo n't go any further and I can get the other things in well we had er , we had an aluminium friend , a double glazed enormous window over our landing and it was , the aluminium was so cold and it was conden there was so much condensation that we had a new window P V C put in , but I tried to sell this other window , cos it was beautiful you see , nothing wrong with it except you know , but nobody wanted it and I kept it and I had it for about two years standing outside and then I thought I can use that and I cut , it was a three section , three lots of glass all in one , cut down , divide it into two and one , and got myself a plant house under the erm |
| 4 | ‘ But I want to win this race . |
| 5 | The council agreed to buy the station for — it 's about three hundred and twenty five thousand , but I want to make this point , that it is n't their intention to close the boat station . |
| 6 | But I want to begin this morning by thanking you on behalf of the group , because all of us owe the G M B an enormous debt of gratitude none more than myself . |
| 7 | Once , as he sat cross-legged on his mattress reading , deep in thought , I grabbed both his ankles , and yanked his legs , saying , ‘ Excuse me , but I have to take this wheelbarrow out to the garden . ’ |
| 8 | It was n't at all what Luce had expected , and , seeing her puzzled frown , he said hastily , apologetically , ‘ I hope you do not mind using the rear entrance , but I needed to go this way to get to my next appointment . ’ |
| 9 | All kinds of information informs my attitudes , but I need to verify this by inspecting the real thing very carefully . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought I might have hurt you — God knows I tried to be careful , but you seem to have this knack of wiping out twenty-five years of control and finesse with a single touch . ’ |
| 11 | But you need to do this in a constructive way which will help them to change their behaviour |
| 12 | But you have to prove this — NOT the employer . |
| 13 | Now , I 'm , I might have been remiss on this , but we had to do this in a hurry , erm , to get names in , and , but it 's been suggested by erm , the leader of the er , Conservative group on , on this Committee , that erm , a , a , member from each should , major group should go , and er , I 'm quite , I 'm quite inordinate , in favour of this , if we can get erm , bookings there now . |
| 14 | ‘ But we seem to have this thing in Wales about always knocking our best players and looking around to try to put forward rivals who are n't as good . ’ |
| 15 | Yet authentic conversation and involvement must allow for a full range of likes and dislikes to be expressed , and also for criticism as well as acknowledgement , but we need to do this in such a way that we do as little damage as possible to other people as people . |
| 16 | They can go there as they did with the industrial conferences , but we have to make this careful balance between parts of our membership . |
| 17 | And and I 'm all in favour as I say getting more through the letter box , it 's easier for us and it But I I think I mean I 'm quite happy to leave this now and just carry on with the bridal But we have to make this pay itself |
| 18 | But we have to assist this cumulative selection to get started . |
| 19 | Intellect is a barrier in our way , no doubt , but we have to pierce this barrier with the help of intellect . |
| 20 | He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others . |
| 21 | There Tyndale wrote to urge him to avoid any discussion of the Sacraments , but he failed to take this advice and was convicted as a heretic precisely on this question and was burned . |
| 22 | It was true that he had been educated at a public school , but he managed to disguise this handicap very well . |
| 23 | But he seems to have this antagonism towards the local people . |
| 24 | Graham did n't mind Slater knowing about Sara — he had introduced them to each other , after all — but he wanted to keep this day private . |
| 25 | he wanted her to come back to him , but he wanted to keep this girl on the go ! |
| 26 | In Marx 's first draft of the plan for Capital there was a section on the State , but he proposed to approach this question from afar , after analysing capitalist economy in the strict sense of the word . |
| 27 | Joseph 's face was pale and his hands were trembling , but he tried to hide this by gripping his rifle tightly as the others gathered around them . |