Example sentences of "but this time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this time they were wrong . |
| 2 | Moses and Aaron bravely do not do as they are told , but this time they can not save the body of the people from disaster . |
| 3 | Always there have been unembarrassed silences between us , but this time they are filled with their exhaustion . |
| 4 | Indeed , the changes were very like the effects of irradiation with X- or ultra-violet rays , but this time they were being produced by a chemical instead of a physical agent . |
| 5 | But this time they were chemicals . |
| 6 | For younger children , play the same game but this time they can hit the ball with their hands to keep it in the air . |
| 7 | And , well , I was n't doing anything , so I just started writing songs again — but this time they were guitar-based songs and I was working on a Portastudio . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'll be doing more long songs , but this time they 'll be long because there 's more to them , not because they 're jammed out … |
| 9 | But this time they will be of no avail . |
| 10 | The civil servants ( not often wrong , but this time they gave bad advice ) wanted to remove this long example from the body of the Report , and relegate it to an appendix , or , better still , cut it out completely . |
| 11 | The next day they tried again but this time they added ten per cent of heavy water to the liquid , thereby increasing the amount of deuterium — the fusion fuel . |
| 12 | Before , they had produced some good samples but this time they were able to show me some fine quality knitwear including knitted underwear . |
| 13 | Indefatigably the Lionisers prowled their way along Albion Street and surged up the narrow Fort Road , but this time they stopped before they got to Fort House . |
| 14 | But this time they did turn in between the lion-surmounted gateposts . |
| 15 | The organisers are now raising the money to help re-create their own version of a Bridge Too Far … but this time they 're confident of a happy ending . |
| 16 | Usually police find out in advance about the location of such events — but this time they were caught out . |
| 17 | But this time they suffered their heaviest casualties since the battle began . |
| 18 | Yeah but this time they 're saying it 's a suicide |
| 19 | Yeah but this time they 're saying it 's a suicide |
| 20 | It accepts all the usual commands , but this time we 're giving NO hints as to what they are — that 's for you to discover ! |
| 21 | This is a similar sort of thing to passing current through , but this time we 're using it as a battery . |
| 22 | All right , we 're still going to have problems , but this time we 're going to face up to them and deal with them — together . |
| 23 | But this time we were not restricted to looking at them , but could follow them . |
| 24 | ‘ But this time we 're confident there will be no problem . ’ |
| 25 | But this time we learned from our mistake , went after them with everything we had got and just pushed them through into the open sea . ’ |
| 26 | Yes but this time we usually book that April holiday about January . |
| 27 | Before , she had always jumped up excitedly , but this time she stayed on the settee . |
| 28 | Next day Elspeth went to mount the horse again , but this time she was chatting to a friend instead of listening to the horse . |
| 29 | She had decided it ought n't to be too difficult to slip into the stables and up the ladder first , but this time she did n't even reach the water pail . |
| 30 | She had a fund of such sayings , but this time she was proved maddeningly right . |