Ill luck of any kind, or even ill treatment at the hands of others, is considered an offence against society, inasmuch as it makes people uncomfortable to hear of it.
What manner of thing was upon me I did not know, but that it was large and heavy and many-legged I could feel.
I know now, I knew then; but that wouldn't have made any difference.
But that's a different kind of fastness,' Alice objected.
It looks like a trademark, but that is only an accident and not intentional.
Their equipment was as inferior to the Strasburg clock, but that is the only difference--there is no frontier.
You would think that this lion has two heads, but that is not so; one is only a shadow.
I have got his chin up too high, but that is no matter; he is looking for Harold.
I said she would be much prettier if her skin were whiter.
She climbed up on to the bench, and sat down, hiding her little legs underneath her.
The first evening that she saw me sitting next to him on the bench outside the door she made signs to me to come in.
I had not expected all these questions, and I said that I had come from the farm, but then told a lie, and said that I was going to see my mother who was ill.
His big quiet eyes rested on me for a time, and then he said that a shepherdess ought never to leave her flock.
It was also said that the town had been ransacked for this "murderer" (the public are not slow in the matter of sifting evidence and arriving at a verdict), but that he could not be found.
But that sort of conduct is to the world's credit; therefore it is not well to find fault with it.
Well, that sounds like a good way; but that ain't the way Bob Tanner done.
If it had only killed him," continued Presley; "but that is the worst of it.
I know where he ought to be, Mr. Presley, but that ain't saying where the crazy gesabe is.
Magnus can stay out if he wants to, but that won't prevent us going ahead and seeing what we can do.
And all day long a bird sings there, And a stray sheep drinks at the pond at times; The place is silent and aware; It has had its scenes, its joys and crimes, But that is its own affair.
For example, the poet means to say that Prose is a good and mighty vehicle in its way, but that it is not Poetry; and how does the conception shape itself in his mind?
He tried turning his back, but that was a failure; he knew the sinister eyes were on him still.
Sometimes we tried to guess people's names; but that was a failure; that is a thing which probably requires a good deal of practice.
She said "Lohengrin" was noisier than Wagner's other operas, but that if I would keep on going to see it I would find by and by that it was all music, and therefore would then enjoy it.
I said so to Heidelberg friends the next day, and they said, in the calmest and simplest way, that that was very true, but that in earlier times his voice HAD been wonderfully fine.
In later days, on reading of the growing scarcity of Polar bears, my conscience has pricked me; but that afternoon I experienced no compunction.
But that's not British, and we want a real British beast.
All the cripples of Bohemian life prove to us that genius is not the outcome of that kind of life, but that, on the contrary, such life is apt to paralyze talent.
When we see or read anything beautiful, does it not seem as though it belongs to us in a way, that it is neither yours nor mine, but that it belongs to all who drink from it and are strengthened by it?
Albert is on his deathbed, and he marries her in extremis, after telling her that he is going to leave her for a time, but that he shall return to her on earth by a new birth.
I was delighted with the procession of the inhabitants; but that of the Thracians was equally, if not more, beautiful.
That I learn of others, I replied, is quite true; but that I am ungrateful I wholly deny.
Nevertheless, I have not been well entertained; but that was my own fault and not yours.
I replied that my story was somewhat long, but that if they would take the trouble to sit down, I should be happy to tell it them.
I replied that I had been educated as a grammarian and a poet, but that my great gift was writing.
I replied that nothing would please me better than to tell them, but that I was starving, and would fain eat something first.
Thomas seldom spoke of his youth or his early struggles, but thatnight he turned back the pages and told Harsanyi a long story.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "but that" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
