Example sentences of "but [adv] [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sorry that you 've both been troubled , but obviously you 'll appreciate that we have to follow up any complaints of this nature . ’ |
| 2 | We know we have been reading a novel but nevertheless we can believe that what the author has told us is true . |
| 3 | A depressing picture , but nevertheless I would argue that there has been a marginal improvement over the years . |
| 4 | The second item of erm correspondence is from Bromley 's Bromley 's Social Services , if you remember , we 've got this on going campaign on home helps and along side that we 've got erm , we did hear of t his home shopping erm campaign that Bromley do , apparently quite successfully , the MP has mentioned that , so I thought I 'd get some details of that erm , it gives the whole procedure for , for the er shopping and the delivery and the Social Services pay out for it , they pay a charge , erm if you 'd like this copied , I could get copies for the next meeting , but meanwhile I 'd recommend that erm we take it up with Benefits Action tomorrow on the campaign . |
| 5 | ‘ It needs an English residence to make them thoroughly comprehensible , but still I should think that human nature would give them success anywhere . ’ |
| 6 | but now we can acknowledge that the advance in South Africa 's cricket prospects is as much in their debt as it is to the current leaders who have united South African cricket and allowed it , for the first time in two centuries , to look forward to drawing on all the resources of the nation 's youth regardless of race , colour or creed . |
| 7 | But now we can reveal that the man behind No. 7 smash Do n't You Want Me is … |
| 8 | But now he could see that the thing was hardly a threat . |
| 9 | These things all took time but now I must say that , for me , it is just about perfect . |
| 10 | We are not told so , but surely we must surmise that the door was shut unobtrusively , and therefore gently , by the shopkeeper . |
| 11 | I do n't know who you 're looking for and I do n't want to know but even I can see that whoever it is he wo n't be overjoyed to see you … ’ |
| 12 | The tousled girl in front of me , she was reading a buxom magazine : its text was in French , I think , but even I could tell that the article she scanned was about fellatio technique — blowjob knowhow . |
| 13 | He was on a white horse but even she could see that it was not Ana 's horse . |
| 14 | In some cases it will not help at all , and the flower will turn brown , but sometimes you will find that your problem has been solved and you have a perfect flower or leaf once more . |
| 15 | But then you might feel that you 're going backwards but you still just modify your position to keep that gap there . |
| 16 | ‘ Losing the will to go on fighting — but then you 'd know that better than me . ’ |
| 17 | You may be amazed that such an obvious shortcoming to a staff plan should have continued to escape my notice , but then you will agree that such is often the way with matters one has given abiding thought to over a period of time ; one is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event . |
| 18 | But then it would realize that the other firm would have also worked that out , and it should raise its bid . |
| 19 | Howard Wilkinson , the manager who has revived a slumbering Yorkshire giant , offered a brave if predictable public stance — ‘ We 're not throwing in the towel … if we win our last five matches it could be interesting ’ — but privately he must realise that an outstanding opportunity has been lost . |