Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] not [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I conceded that it might have been wiser , and indeed more seemly , to have consulted her before a decision was reached ; but I did not add that I had advised the Prime Minister to agree to a meeting over her head because I was convinced that she would never accept a challenge to her authority . |
| 2 | But I did not foresee that she would run away from us both — that we would both lose her forever . ’ |
| 3 | But I did not know that he was Ipuky 's son . ’ |
| 4 | I knew that he had been barracked at times , but I did not realize that he was so sensitive … |
| 5 | Her girlfriends , particularly her former flatmates , would have rallied round but she did not feel that she could inflict them with such a burden of responsibility . |
| 6 | But she did not realize that although she had broken an accepted social rule , she had done nothing against nature . |
| 7 | Within the inner-city study , we believed that the language might show patterns of differentiation between older and younger speakers and between the sexes , but we did not know that it would , or if it did , what the precise differences would be . |
| 8 | The ultimate goal was to have the potential unlocked , but they did not think that AEA was ready for that . |
| 9 | But they did not realise that they were making errors ; the subjects were convinced that hypnosis had actually helped them to remember the poem accurately . |
| 10 | Of course , this group at Ephesus must have heard something about the Holy Spirit if they listened at all attentively to John the Baptist , but they did not realise that the promised Spirit was available for them ; that he could make a difference to their lives . |
| 11 | But they did not know that in the beginning , as Mrs Irving expatiated in her cracked and gracious voice on the high brick wall which dated from the Civil War , and earlier still , which had formed one boundary of General Fairfax 's lands when Putney was a separate village , when Cromwell 's Trained Bands assembled there , when the Putney Debates on liberty of conscience were held in St Mary 's Church on the bridge . |
| 12 | Holmes had told Stapleton that he would return to London , but he had not said that I was going too . |
| 13 | But he did not feel that she looked upon their amorous exchanges as more than innocent dalliance . |
| 14 | A US official said troops opened fire several times , but he did not confirm that there had been casualties . |
| 15 | A US official said troops opened fire several times , but he did not confirm that there had been casualties . |
| 16 | But he did not mean that a bishop was utterly free to act and think as he thought fit . |
| 17 | But he did not disagree that it was a life of tiny incidents , of often petty crime and indiscretion , of being an integral part of the community . |
| 18 | But he did not believe that Britain should wait until next summer 's removal of capital and exchange controls throughout the Community before entering the exchange rate mechanism . |
| 19 | He believed that induced abortion was an outrage against women 's health when performed in inadequate conditions ' but he did not believe that it should be made legal . |
| 20 | C. Wright Mills saw professionals as increasingly becoming the servants of the rich and powerful , but he did not believe that the individual professionals themselves were losing their power and influence . |
| 21 | He hoped that the government would set an example to the nation by inaugurating a period of change , but he did not believe that the estates of the realm should be given extensive political rights or that the power of the tsar should be dramatically reduced . |
| 22 | The Secretary of State hoped that qualified members of the teaching staff would pursue research that would contribute to the ‘ better performance of their teaching duties ’ , but he did not envisage that ‘ in the ordinary way it will be necessary for members of the academic staff to devote the whole or most of their time to research ’ . |
| 23 | But it did not follow that we could now relax , least of all in Britain . |
| 24 | Economists were afraid that the country was over-populated and believed that the problems of poverty and unemployment would be reduced if the surplus hands and mouths would go overseas , but it did not follow that the government was going to pay for them to go . |
| 25 | Certainly , it justified the rebellion as a military duty , necessary to save the Fatherland from anarchy ; but it did not say that the objective was the overthrow of the Republic . |
| 26 | But it did not accept that schools for the less able should be poorer in buildings , quality of teaching , or any other respect . |
| 27 | It did , however , provide that the Agency , through investigation , could help to ensure that employers promoted equality of opportunity in employment but it did not provide that employers had a duty themselves to promote equality of opportunity in employment . |