Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] [verb] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What persuades Quine , however , is not that his examples are so convincing but that he knows that there must be some examples , and these look like the best candidates . |
| 2 | Well I did think about it but the Careers Officer advised me no cos he thought that you have to be really really good before y get in and he asked me if I thought I was really good and I said that well I was not too bad but and he said that he thought it would be better to concentrate on something else . |
| 3 | No I think , I reckon that if you knew that the bloke was an easy pull , they would n't do it if they , if they knew they could n't get the girl cos otherwise it would be embarrassing for them , but if they knew that she was an easy pull they 'd do it for a joke . |
| 4 | But if I claim that my religious experience is experience of God , then I am not simply talking about my own feelings but about a transcendent being that I am claiming my feelings to be feelings of . |
| 5 | But if he thought that he could goad a reaction out of her then he was sorely mistaken . |
| 6 | It 's one thing if you 're fully staffed but if you think that whichever of my boys is on guard duty for the day is responsible for the shopping as well as the cooking , and I have to put another boy on guard as substitute to him and another at the disposition of the local magistrate , and I 've two out on motor-bike patrol — where am I when a case like this comes up and I 've got to be out ? ’ |
| 7 | You may think that I want to destroy the milk boards , but if you believe that you will believe anything . ’ |
| 8 | But if you believe that there is a God then they are working for you in the sense that , for them , to pray is to work . |
| 9 | But unless one realizes that there is a mind structure , including appropriate sensory and motor indriyas at a subtle level , as well as corresponding sense organs and motor functions , such experimental observations remain obscure and lacking in a full understanding and interpretation . |
| 10 | For our part , we wish to step back from philosophical issues , not because they are totally irrelevant but because we believe that it is not necessary , from a sociological research point of view , to take them up . |
| 11 | The Gods , in his opinion , chase after ‘ Daphne ’ and ‘ Syrinx ’ not because they were women but because they anticipated that they would turn into trees . |
| 12 | But the claims of programmes must be scrutinized carefully , not because they offer wrong answers but because they assume that there are answers . |
| 13 | Not just because of who he is , but because they think that he understands and cares , and may be able to intercede . |
| 14 | But because he knew that I and my group would be careful he happily let me use his basic materials — boards , palettes , etc. — and we brought our own paints and dyes and drawing materials . |
| 15 | There must be some affinity between you and the man or woman on the printed page — something that you recognise not because you are ‘ just like that ’ but because you feel that you can interpret the situation with those words . |
| 16 | –This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give . |
| 17 | ‘ This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give . |
| 18 | She agreed to one glass of the port , not because she was feeling at all drunk but because she knew that she ought to be . |
| 19 | But since it seemed that her car was going nowhere without one , ‘ Could the mechanic fit one for me — as a matter of some urgency ? ’ she asked anxiously — and discovered that her rescuer must have already put that same question to him . |
| 20 | But since he acknowledges that he has no expertise in the field of language teaching , there is no reason to take his remarks as authoritative . |
| 21 | But since I agree that it is your duty to enquire as to the welfare of your wedded lord , and as … ’ |
| 22 | But while he indicates that there are such criteria for distinguishing between dominant and subordinate instances , Althusser pays far more attention to the relation between the dominant instance and economic practice , which itself constitutes a second sort of criterion for identifying the dominant instance . |
| 23 | Woodie put his hand at once , as he invariably could , on his set of pocket screwdrivers , but before he felt that it was quite tactful to offer help , Willis had lit an Aladdin , which presumably he always kept ready , no wonder . |
| 24 | having problems today cos she 's got the two girls there from school and they 're supposed to go to the school , the doctor , for an examination but whether she realized that I do n't know . |
| 25 | It 'd take me a while to learn how to drive it , but after I learned that I reckon I could do it . |
| 26 | Then they beat him with the pipes once again , but when they realized that he had managed to keep his secrets from them , that this small Englishman was not for talking , they turned on him in their fury and kicked and beat him until they feared they had killed him . |
| 27 | We were a little discomfited by the request , but agreed to accede to it this once ; but when we realised that it was to be a regular arrangement , we knew that we should have to move again , for over and above the inconvenience of being put out of our room , we were sure that our landlady did not even change the sheets . |
| 28 | She rather spoilt him now and again ; but when it showed that he was n't intelligent like Constanza she did n't like it . |
| 29 | But when I suggested that she smile , another young man interrupted to answer for her . |
| 30 | But when I mentioned that there was a legendary tunnel that ran from the battlements of Beaufort down through the sheer rock to the bottom of the Litani gorge , they leapt to their feet and bounded up one of the staircases . |