Example sentences of "but that [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I was fifteen my mother thought I was still a child … but that year I discovered life , rock and roll and love with a boy named Brownie Hansen … ’ |
| 2 | I read that runners could only run five ultra events a year , but that year I ran eight , then 13 the next year and 18 the next , and I think others began to realise you can do more if you take the right approach . ’ |
| 3 | Rosenberg had hoped to earn a living from his portraits , but that year he learned that his lungs were weak and was advised to seek a warmer climate . |
| 4 | But that weekend you were looking after someone 's spaniel . ’ |
| 5 | In their previous league match two weeks ago , they had travelled to Leicester knowing that a win would all but give them the championship , but that day they slumped to a surprise 3–2 defeat . |
| 6 | He seldom lost his temper , but that day he was cross , rightly so , for fresh greenstuff at that time of the year is priceless . |
| 7 | The honourary medical officer of the Longhope lifeboat is Dr Tony , and he would normally be assisting casualties to be uplifted , but that day he himself was to be winched up from the lifeboat to the helicopter , and once that part of the exercise was completed and he was back , safely on deck , I asked him , How was that ? |
| 8 | ‘ Normally , I would shoot through anything — but that day it rained and rained and there was nothing to be done about it , ’ Gerald says . |
| 9 | But that day I was leaving the school gates with a group of boys when I saw Helen . |
| 10 | Grace 's brothers were usually there too , but that night they were in Bamburgh , on the mainland . |
| 11 | Moran was the best player and mostly won but that night he attributed his winnings to the cards he had been dealt . |
| 12 | As a rule he only drank one glass , but that night he drank three , and when he noticed the full moon in the window he became excited , almost too much white in his eyes and a bulb of spit shining on his front teeth . |
| 13 | ‘ Normally he did n't mind but that night he was different , ’ she said . |
| 14 | ‘ But that night you turned up at the farmhouse , you said … ’ |
| 15 | Sometimes , when preparing for a long haul , I would only manage four hours ' rest , but that night I was asleep by eleven-thirty and did not rise till six . |
| 16 | ‘ But that night I moved in , you were ’ |
| 17 | There was n't much on the box , but that night it was preferable to conversation . |
| 18 | But that night she had knelt in her cell through the long , dark hours , begging the Almighty to forgive her for her envy and sadness . |
| 19 | But that worker she left , she got oh she was n't married but she had a family . |
| 20 | Yeah , but that top she had on before all you need is a black dre a black skirt and it 's a suit then |
| 21 | Now that I had to get it to the by taxi and she had seven stitches put in the leg and , I had to leave her there for six hours , well then it was a taxi back home , I could n't now I am on income support , but that cost me fifty four pound , ninety five and I am paying that . |
| 22 | There was little enough in her life that she could honestly say was exciting , but that morning she was a little nervous , and , yes , a little excited . |
| 23 | She did n't really know what she should be wearing , but that morning she put on an old pair of jeans . |
| 24 | But that morning she had discovered just who ‘ Cousin Naylor ’ was , and , even though she was feeling more than a mite rebellious at his ‘ … it might be in your interests not to see him again' , she did n't want to put her job in jeopardy should Naylor Massingham happen to be passing , and observe Travis 's car again parked at her apartment block . |
| 25 | But that end you ought to have had a firm , if not wholly clear idea of from the earliest thought you gave to your story . |
| 26 | She likes it here but that place she 's got is no more than a hole in the wall . |
| 27 | Not bad but that shop they have er , the cheapest . |
| 28 | In normal circumstances , Melissa would have found him stimulating company but that evening she found her thoughts constantly wandering . |
| 29 | But that evening I settled down at home to watch a superb and delightful documentary on the giant otters of South America . |
| 30 | But that argument we lost on Friday , and I 'm not going to pursue it today . |