Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But instinctively he knew that she needed gentle loving , the hard , penetrating loving would come later . |
| 2 | A few leading officials believed that free speech , human rights and other concepts embraced by the term ‘ democracy ’ were honourable in themselves , but mostly it appeared that support for democracy was based on promoting economic progress . |
| 3 | These recommendations would not preclude sensible attention to aspects of environmental safety particularly important to visually handicapped pupils , but rather they emphasise that the pupil should have the challenge of encountering ‘ a series of situations of just manageable difficulty ’ . |
| 4 | Now this does not merely pose the cyclical nature of development under capitalism , although of course this is implied , but rather it suggests that even in those periods of upturn or growth there will be oscillations and deviations , so that the cycle itself is contradictory . |
| 5 | It took George several hours to get used to the fact that I was deceitful and irresponsible , but eventually he agreed that we might as well get as good a price as we could — £10 , he thought , if they had n't spotted the broken springs . |
| 6 | But secretly he knows that Michael is right . |
| 7 | But bitterly I regret that I needed another man 's hands to help me , and he in ignorance . ’ |
| 8 | But apparently they know that I 'm really forward which is absolute , actually not very true cos Ed said that I was quite forward and he , I was only forward with him because the person I got off with just before him was bloody forward and it made me a bit forward but I calmed down after that , you know ? |
| 9 | But obviously we know that interviewers simply given the task of producing say 20 interviews might choose only women of a fairly young age-group and we know this is not representative of the population . |
| 10 | I ca n't say that we 'll approve every one , but obviously we know that if you introduce a general charge there will be people for whom you do not want it to affect unfairly . |
| 11 | Imagine yourself being in a crowd where English is being spoken , but suddenly you sense that somebody is talking in another language . |
| 12 | The news from France was that the French Army was withdrawing into prepared positions to lure the German Army into a trap , but soon everyone realised that the Germans must be sweeping all before them . |
| 13 | She denied it at the time , but soon she realized that those were his inclinations . |
| 14 | But soon I realized that the old man was blind . |
| 15 | But soon he discovered that politicians were more interesting than colonels so he arranged his soldiers as though they were the House of Commons and made them harangue each other . |
| 16 | by no means all the battles have yet been won , but already we expect that we can break new ground if we really try hard enough ; we expect to seen our ambitions fulfilled if we have the talent and application to meet our goals . |
| 17 | But already she sensed that in the end she would . |
| 18 | But normally you find that erm both Stan and I would consider the large goods vehicles drivers as being the professionals , because you are driving all the time . |
| 19 | But anyway it transpired that there were two groups sort of working towards the same end and nobody could work out what sort of erm role each played and it was terrible . |
| 20 | The passive is certainly more impersonal and factual than the active construction but nevertheless one feels that an analysis such as that of Palmer and Higgenbotham , which equates He was seen to walk away and He was seen to be walking away as both having the reporting " see that " meaning , loses sight of a slight but real semantic distinction . |
| 21 | As we have seen Kenneth Macpherson had felt that the earlier films had been awful but nevertheless he suspected that ‘ the people got in some dim way the fact that here was something growing under their eyes ’ , that the movies had ‘ a sense of life and expectancy ’ . |
| 22 | But nevertheless I think that these colleagues , if they look carefully at the fundamentals of their own assumptions , will find that they are begging just as many questions as I am . |
| 23 | Maybe she could n't offer guarantees , but somehow she knew that if anyone could save this baby , Niall was that person . |
| 24 | But gradually it emerges that it is Michael who is the real success . |
| 25 | But once one assumes that accumulation is taking place — and Marx asserts that this is the chief aim of capitalism — then the proportion of surplus-value which is unproductively consumed has quite a different significance . |
| 26 | But yesterday it emerged that the four judges had written to Mr Tony Byrne , BAFTA president , saying they had voted for GBH , the Alan Bleasdale drama starring Robert Lindsay as leader of a corrupt city council . |
| 27 | But yesterday it emerged that the four judges had written to Mr Tony Byrne , BAFTA president , saying they had voted for GBH , the Alan Bleasdale drama starring Robert Lindsay as leader of a corrupt city council . |
| 28 | But yesterday she vowed that the tragedy would not ruin their lives . |
| 29 | But yesterday she vowed that the tragedy would not ruin their lives . |
| 30 | I obviously I from what was coming out you probably could n't work out very much to help you but nonetheless I know that I would want to do that as a person . |