Example sentences of "but [vb past] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was now fearful about returning to school , but agreed to discuss this with her tutor . |
| 2 | He even tried sneaking back to the library at night , thinking the Bookman might appear after dark , but had to stop this when he backed into Mr Crangle , who was up to the same thing . |
| 3 | Neil refused most of these invitations , but had accepted this last one — the temptation to indulge himself , since he had stopped his midnight drinking , was suddenly great . |
| 4 | ‘ I said to the grave digger , in conversation with him , ‘ Look , are you in the right plot ? ’ and his answer was the priest told him to dig the grave opposite Patrick 's but when he came along he 'd seen there was already a burial there , who was the sister Annie , but had seen this vacant plot next door , so he had dug the vacant one . |
| 5 | When in February 1983 the General synod of the Church of England debated the nuclear threat , only the then Archbishop of York , Dr Blanch , thought fit to remind his hearers that the early church had not only held that the world would soon end , but had regarded this as a desirable consummation . |
| 6 | The Library of Congress , for instance , started with the term ‘ Electronic calculating machines ’ but had to modify this , in keeping with later normal usage , to ‘ Computers ’ . |