Example sentences of "but he [vb past] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Cahill said : ‘ There are no plans to sell Rover ’ , but he admitted that defence remained the core of BAe 's business . |
| 2 | twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful . |
| 3 | Noel was unashamedly ‘ political ’ , but he felt that being ‘ non-political ’ only too often meant in practice tacitly supporting the dominion of Mammon , and ignoring the needs of the poor and the oppressed all over the world , attitudes which were not in his reading of the Christian faith . |
| 4 | But he felt that position to be untenable . |
| 5 | I mean Leonardo , without question one of the most outstanding geniuses the world has ever known — but he said that . ’ |
| 6 | But he said that is a pittance compared to the tax dodging at the top , that 's it 's billions ! |
| 7 | I 've had this twice and each time its been , its been other people , because his got a lot of goods people 's belongings out of one cupboard into another and the second time round there 's been purgatory because he brought Karen 's house , her hoover and the saucepans and everything that was his , everything that belonged to him but he said that before , I said why was Michelle able to jumped in between him and Karen , he said well Karen had been getting moody , and he said Karen was getting bored , Paul is boring , she 's told Paul that his boring boring . |
| 8 | but he said that |
| 9 | He said they are a nuisance sometimes keep coming in and out for stuff but he said that 's childlike . |
| 10 | Yeah well he says , he says I rea I would n't have thought that but he said that 's not really his style , that 's not really like Sal to do that . |
| 11 | There was something mysterious about him and she wanted to ask so many questions , but he had that locked-in look , so that even if she risked Salt 's caustic tongue and asked outright about how he 'd come to be a slave , what it was like in Jamaica , if Africa was full of cannibals and if he 'd eaten people , she 'd probably get no more than a few shrugs for answers . |
| 12 | I wondered if my master knew something about my tryst with Mathilda but he had that distant , innocent expression . |
| 13 | Willie was about to ask why : but he knew that was rude , so he kept silent . |
| 14 | He would have liked to give more information , ask someone to research the final days of the tsar ; but he knew that would only have got back to the KGB , and in this game secrecy was the only key he held . |
| 15 | Lucien wanted to say , ‘ I did , ’ but he knew that would n't be , could n't be , true . |
| 16 | He might well have formed his own opinion but he knew that would not bear cross-examination at some later date . |
| 17 | Then again , Nicodemus discovered perhaps a strange thing , in a way , but he discovered that , that which is born of the flesh is flesh , to use the words of Jesus . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , yes , I did , ’ he said , ‘ but he topped that with the car-wash . ’ |
| 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 | But he maintained that was not the purpose of the composite he moved on behalf of the Tottenham constituency party . |
| 26 | I do n't know when he had last closed his eyes with a clear conscience but he did that day . |
| 27 | He was a man among children but he swallowed that . |
| 28 | But he wanted that job so badly he was willing to kill for it . |
| 29 | 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 . |