Example sentences of "that but " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the only boat in Division C she wins that but is also expected to take the joint C and D prize . |
| 2 | ‘ Liverpool have exploited that but it first came to me many years ago in a charity match at Newcastle . |
| 3 | No one present would have disputed that but the feeling was that all we had seen was the closing of one chapter of a story in which there is much more to come . |
| 4 | I accepted that but , having in mind Sweden 's small population and great resources of iron and timber , thought it an untypical sort of country , and asked for another . |
| 5 | She 'd been writing for the NME , about David Cassidy and things like that but it must have been quite a struggle to get by . |
| 6 | ‘ McIniff was blackguard enough to do that but you 'd think that at least he 'd be ashamed to tell it . ’ |
| 7 | I know it ai n't grown up and that but I ca n't stop myself . |
| 8 | ‘ He could have blamed this and that but he said we deserved it . |
| 9 | We did n't really need a Christmas present after that but the encore , the intermezzo from Delius 's Fennimore and Gerda , was very welcome all the same . |
| 10 | We may be very liberated and all that but — ‘ Oh — I must ask my husband ’ ’ She put on a high-pitched imbecile voice like a detergent or wash-up liquid ad . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , er , ’ said the vicar , ‘ I 'm not so sure about that but I 'll certainly ring the church bells . ’ |
| 12 | I hear that the Ancient Teutons get twice that but it ca n't be true because they lost . |
| 13 | On the debit side we have dropped one day on the calving interval to 376 days , although not a disaster we had been trying to improve that but our heifers are calving at 28 months instead of two years three months . |
| 14 | I was favoured with your letter and should have been glad to embrace this opportunity of sending a packet of seeds to Dr. Manetti of Florence , but the season has been so cold that but few of them have ripened as yet , but if the next month proves favourable , I hope to send him some in November , if you have any opportunity to convey them . |
| 15 | There was no harm in that but it landed him in trouble every time . |
| 16 | Not only that but he suggested in his letter that it would be sensible to keep the donation quiet . |
| 17 | Not only that but the Board predicted that with its second station it could improve substantially on the Sizewell performance , setting British construction times and operating records among the best in the world . |
| 18 | The DHAC and the Republican Clubs will push for that but I ca n't see anyone else . |
| 19 | I am not singing ‘ Take my head and my heart and all my bad habits but by the way I 'm sorry that you have to put up with all that but they 're just part of the package you see . ’ |
| 20 | One of the key crossover texts , perhaps , is Barthes 's Mythologies , for what is that but a series of camp readings ? |
| 21 | I ca n't say I know many women like that but I find it interesting . ’ |
| 22 | We are doing this because some kids always tell us ‘ oh , we can do that but with my legs tied behind my back ’ which can be very annoying . |
| 23 | No , I assure you of that but , well , for one thing the Elsie I knew made it clear to me that she wished to make a new life for herself , start more or less from scratch . |
| 24 | At first it was quite nice attending interviews and things like that but after a while they all just become the same . |
| 25 | We are not made for life or anything like that but there is a fair bit coming in . |
| 26 | You want a sturdy young fellow here not only to lift that but also those sacks of sugar and such . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You can challenge that but you have to pick your moments ’ , she says . |
| 28 | Steve Groves for ‘ We shot it yesterday when it was 3 feet higher' ’ Nick Reason for ‘ Dad , I know you 've got to have a head for heights to canoe over a waterfall like that but why 's that man got two heads ? ’ , |
| 29 | We are not summoned to that but to the great banquet afterwards . |
| 30 | ‘ I , too , thought of that but , no , I inspected the corpse . ’ |