Example sentences of "[adv] but [pers pn] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The article on Flettner 's rotors ( ’ Critics in a spin over Flettner 's ships ’ , 10 March , p 6561 interested me greatly but I feel that another , better form of wind propulsion for ships is either unknown or is being ignored . |
| 2 | The costs were escalating alarmingly but he felt that he was too far committed to stop . |
| 3 | Fair enough he may have had a very good reason for doing so but I thought that that would have been a typical apack erm he did say well you know I just want to run it by him , you know , just to make sure but you , you still needed to know why he thought that his accountant had to be involved . |
| 4 | Which we have n't picked up on and perhaps , right so but you need that firmed up that 's all I can say to you . |
| 5 | Well I 've put the big one in but I know that the rest would n't go in . |
| 6 | And for , our children when they grow up cos I had three children nearly every one that had come into the town had little ones so you see we were trying to build a town for our children to benefit which I do n't know whether you think that it 's a town worth living in but I think that we have done very well and it 's a town that is caring for such as the elderly they really do care ! |
| 7 | The last of the bedsheets , ripped into ribbons , had been torn away but he believed that they were well north of the Makaa . |
| 8 | I wished this could go on for ever but I realised that all too soon I would have to return . |
| 9 | Constance wanted to run home but she knew that she could n't leave her bike . |
| 10 | Yes , no no no no no no , he did come up but he said that he told Ian |
| 11 | Sufferers from Chemical Dependency say " I have tried repeatedly to give up but I find that I can not . |
| 12 | I knew you might work it out but I reasoned that if I did n't rush forward to explain all , you might catch the culprit first and never have to trouble me . ’ |
| 13 | Coffee was on the go there as well but I noticed that the Sheikha never drank a drop . |
| 14 | Mrs Singh seemed to be listening intently but I guess that a lot of what was being said went over her head . |
| 15 | Not particularly but I understand that er it is , you now have the whole of China which small areas erm relatively small areas , you 've now got the whole thing , I mean if you start initiating very radical reforms , as you say you do n't have the personnel or the resources to erm to prevent a , you know , a big change disruption . |
| 16 | Her heart was hammering hard but she knew that if she breathed slowly and deeply and looked long and intently at the comforting ritual of man and beast before her , the thudding would subside . |
| 17 | and then getting all the the chassis numbers and that and welding them on to these stolen cars and Because what , you know , er Siobhan 's dad had a , bought a Montego and I do n't know how it came about but they discovered that erm it had a diff I mean it 's had a Maestro engine in it and it had this that and the other . |
| 18 | I ca n't remembered who said it a little earlier but they said that the er , conservatives er dealt with the environment as it came along , and it 's it 's been all too apparent that they kep dealt with it as it came along . |
| 19 | erm so no certainly they asked me about it and so on but I think that rather like their food forum they might like to get a communications forum going erm because they 've been thinking about having a Business Club and various other things because they 're involved with the Management Programme and all sorts of things and they maybe going to do some training for heads and people like that |
| 20 | I do n't know why but I see that more clearly now than I ever did at the time . |
| 21 | The place had n't filled up yet but she noticed that the boys were congregating at the end of the hall beneath the balcony and on the left hand side while the girls were spread between the tables and chairs on the opposite wall , chatting and giggling and trying to pretend they were not waiting to be asked to dance . |