Example sentences of "[noun sg] but that [pron] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I explained how it was that as a child I had been told I was an eidetiker but that it had meant nothing to me . |
| 2 | The prosecution accepted that the notebook proved Mr Thompson had been involved in the distribution of obscene material , a charge the countess had levelled at him earlier in the trial but that he had denied . |
| 3 | He concluded that not only had the respondents agreed negatively not to sell other petrol but that they had agreed positively to keep their garage open for the sale of the appellant 's petrol at all reasonable hours throughout the period of the tie . |
| 4 | She shivered in her armchair through cold and impatience , thinking that Swod relished a captive audience but that she hated forming it . |
| 5 | He told the meeting of MPs that he would prefer to see a more democratically-accountable bank but that he refused to support anything which jeopardised the treaty . |