Example sentences of "but that i [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I would have to bite back my angry words — that better men than he had driven the jeep but that I knew he would share their fate . |
| 2 | But that I raised it knowing you hate it . |
| 3 | But that I thought was really good for three pound . |
| 4 | panel seeks to make that two million pounds , subject to the appropriate level of grants and borrow approvals and perhaps some assistance from within our own resources and elsewhere being budget , this is a , a firm intention to increase that figure , but we can not say it has been increased yet , to do so will be premature , but that I ask the committee to accept it this morning as a recommendation from the |
| 5 | I told Northcliffe that if his people would make enquiries at our Central Office , he would find that our nightly regiment of speakers was at least as well worth reporting as the Radical contingent , but that I realized that from the Press point of view , no doubt , our speakers did not play up to the reporters by handing them their speeches in advance , and by other tricks of the kind to which the Radical orators have recourse . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was n't that loneliness chose me , but that I chose it , proudly wrapping myself in it , like a cloak against the pollution of the world . |
| 7 | But that I 'd done before . |
| 8 | I admitted he visited me but that I 'd had a history of violence with him , and anyway I 'd got an injunction . |
| 9 | I thought that it was probably some stupid village prank , but that I 'd better get in as soon as possible in case something odd was happening . |
| 10 | He seemed so pleased with himself that I could n't help saying that I should mind them very much myself but that I had no objection to his wearing them — a view which I believed surprised him . |
| 11 | I am not saying that my trusting God was ‘ all up to me ’ , but that I had to see that all of me was involved in trusting God . |
| 12 | I replied that it was not the first time , but that I had borne the previous occasions with courage and would do so now . |
| 13 | Or simply told the truth — told them there and now that it was n't Syl 's smile that repelled me but that I had an intuitive conviction that there was something unsound in him , something unwholesome by virtue of being undeveloped , something that would , sooner or later , cause me to turn on him with bitter cruelty as Nour had turned on me . |
| 14 | But that I had deceived . |
| 15 | I told him that ever since listening to my father 's vivid descriptions of Constantinople I had always wanted to visit the city , but that I had been sadly disillusioned by the Turks I had seen on my way to the Embassy ; they had looked so incongruous in second-hand European clothes . |
| 16 | But that I think they were |
| 17 | Erm you know I like Georgian and I like a lot of other architecture but that I think has got tremendous character . |
| 18 | Before I call the Home Secretary , I should say that I understand that a notice of appeal has now been lodged but that I propose to exercise my discretion in respect of the sub judice rule to allow questions covering the Home Secretary 's statement . |
| 19 | I said that did I share his belief I should not contemplate what I do , but that I did not share it . |
| 20 | I said that , did I share his belief , I should not contemplate what I do , but that I did not share it . |
| 21 | To say I did n't have time would not be true , but that I did n't really want to make time . |
| 22 | As to liking , I always had the feeling — I ca n't quite express it — the feeling that in his eyes I was all right — useful in fact , but that I did n't matter in myself . |
| 23 | I told them that there was no doubt in my mind but that I wanted to be a paratrooper . |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't say I wanted to go to bed with you , but that I wanted to make love to you ; a subtle difference , ’ he chided , ‘ and I do n't know why you should look so disbelieving — you have a lovely supple body … |
| 25 | If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar , this is my answer : Not that I lov 'd Caesar less , but that I lov 'd Rome more . |
| 26 | He looked at my work and said I had talent , but that I needed " earnest practice in drawing " , to which I wholly agree : He also said he would be glad to take me as his " chela " but that my name and work must go before the council of professors of the Academy , which meets next Thursday , 17th inst. and that if they accepted me I could start work on the following Monday , 21st inst . |
| 27 | If she should by chance ever read these words , I think she would confirm not merely that this was how he spoke but that I have not misrepresented her reactions . |
| 28 | I do n't know why I tell you this , but that I have been exceedingly moved and pleased by Jane Eyre . |
| 29 | Wednesday are looking rather lowly , but that I feel is mainly due to early season woes , and as , I am assured from relatives down the M1 , they have a much easier 2nd half of the season . |