Example sentences of "but that we [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our failure was not that we neglected the figures , but that we ignored the ideology … |
| 2 | I told him that we had but that we 'd talked about it with them and now things seemed all right . |
| 3 | ‘ Frau Fegel was saying the other day when we were playing Bach that our technique was good but that we had to learn to put feeling into our playing . ’ |
| 4 | Indeed I am rather coming round to the view that the trouble last year was not that we failed to produce as good policies as our opponents but that we failed to produce policies for the issues the electorate was most interested in . |
| 5 | And er what was I going to tell you , I told you about , I talked about we had nine pawnbroker 's shops , I did n't did I , but that we did have nine pawnbroker shops in Ipswich . |