Example sentences of "but this [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this incantation I use does not calm me any more . |
| 2 | This is the biggest amount raised so far but this year we hope to raise even more ’ . |
| 3 | His family has been farming the same land for generations but this year he has sown no cereal crops and has not even bothered to string the hops in the hop gardens . |
| 4 | It could have been different if I had been accepted for the Forces , but this way I mean to make Marion my wife and I hope … well … well ’ — he jerked his head upwards — ‘ I may as well say it , that if I have a son , or for second best , a daughter , to carry on here . |
| 5 | But this season he has played for Veryan 's first team in a division which has qualified umpires . |
| 6 | But this pre-history he rejects serves as a symbolic equivalent of the narrative of multiple usurpations and misappropriations of territory that occupies the following six hundred pages . |
| 7 | All the week the receipts had been unusually high , but this evening he expected to break all records . |
| 8 | but this chap he 's known for years |
| 9 | so I said , she 's the same age as me , she said god , she looked much older than you I said yeah I know , I says it cheers you up doing surgery do n't it seeing all these people that look terrible for their age , so she says well I though she looked older than me , I says yes she does look older , I do n't have , I do n't know how old Sue is , I think she 's forty , I think she 's forty , but this woman she 's got long hair |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I do n't know how to tell you this , ’ said the Headmaster , ‘ but this morning we had to send your home from school for having a wee in the swimming pool . ’ |
| 11 | But this time they did turn in between the lion-surmounted gateposts . |
| 12 | Kathleen had warned her countless times in the past , but this time she had had enough . |
| 13 | She became pregnant again about six months ago , through a contraceptive failure , but this time she decided to have an abortion . |
| 14 | But this time I 've come to — hopefully — make things happier for everybody . |
| 15 | ‘ But this time I want to land , not at Inverkeithing but , ’ he stared across the water , ‘ at some secret place far from public view where I could stable a horse without arousing suspicion or interest . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ In true Hitchcock tradition , I always make one appearance in each series of Rumpole , but this time I decided to give myself a speaking part , ’ he says . |
| 17 | The boy 's run up was limited by the ditch behind , but this time he managed to plant a foot on the wall and grab the Corporal . |
| 18 | But this time he does seem to have hit rock bottom . |
| 19 | For a fleeting second he wondered if he might be dreaming , but this time he had woken into a nightmare . |
| 20 | But this time he had forgotten , and tomorrow was her birthday . |
| 21 | He had always done that at his pre-production party , given everyone a carnation to wear , but this time he had overreached himself . |
| 22 | But this time he 's put me under a curfew . |
| 23 | In the sand you see the iron although it broke it more but this plough he 'd kept the thing fairly together . |