Example sentences of "but he [vb past] [that] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should be trying to enhance cooperative arrangements of referral and support between health and social work departments and private homes , and Mike O'Reilly did n't actually say that they had that problem but he said that their clients had been referred by GPs or by the psychogeriatric service . |
| 2 | Mr Field has agreed not to make any statement about his next course of action before his 11.30am meeting with Mr Kinnock , but he said that his supporters in Birkenhead had told him they did not want to see a fudge . |
| 3 | But he said that his only concern was to establish whether Mr Ridley 's decision had been in accordance with the law . |
| 4 | When Spurgeon opened Pastor 's College in 1856 some of the first pupils were illiterate but he insisted that his aim was to equip ‘ a class of ministers who will not aim at lofty scholarship , but at the winning of souls — men of the people ’ . |
| 5 | I asked the man on duty to ring the Avila police headquarters , where the search was supposedly being co-ordinated , but he protested that his Spanish was poor . |
| 6 | He began by admitting that there was a crisis of power , but he denied that his administration was without a programme to overcome it . |
| 7 | His resolve to live was great but he thought that his strength could fail him . |
| 8 | But he accepted that his defeat revealed ‘ a general reluctance ’ in the party to see that opposition voiced too vehemently in public . |
| 9 | He thought that by involving as many as possible in the formal decision-making , he was ensuring their support ; but he forgot that his pleasure in obedience had been learnt the hard way of monastic conversion , and it was not shared by many — not even , when it came to the push , at Bec — much less in the world . |