Example sentences of "but [vb base] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But ern we 'd stay with them all Saturday afternoon . |
| 2 | They pass a stone doorway in the tunnel wall , but by-pass it in favour of a more obvious way out . |
| 3 | But sit him in the cockpit of a Stealth Fighter airplane and he 'll whup anyone 's ass ( it 's the rest of the office 's fault for telling him he looks like tom Cruise ) . |
| 4 | but sit it out |
| 5 | SALT , for example , gave the Soviets an advantage in the number of ICBM 's ( even if the US maintained predominance in total numbers of warheads ) ; grain sales to Russia helped Brezhnev solve his agricultural problems but upset US markets ; Jewish emigration from the USSR increased but not enough to please the critics so that the US Congress ( under the Jackson-Vanik amendment ) decided to tie economic deals with Russia to greater Jewish emigration . |
| 6 | The banks say the Phoenix survey is too small to be representative but insist it 's up to customers to check statements . |
| 7 | We should not blame him for being a man of his time but commend him for his remarkable vision and altruism . |
| 8 | laughing up their sleeves , ca n't even bloody sell anything , but sell them at a profit . |
| 9 | This compromise incorporates two tiers of tariffs which are likely to reduce marginally the price of British bananas but push them up for the Germans . |
| 10 | I mean he 's come out over the top of his own defenders and i over big Ormanroyd and he can do little else but push it back down into the pack . |
| 11 | But rapture it was that Saturday afternoon in the spring of 1990 when Ian McGeechan 's tartan lads won the Grand Slam , the Triple Crown , the Calcutta Cup and the hearts of all of us numb with tear-stained joy in the stands and terracings of Murrayfield . |
| 12 | The other three departments keep most information in hard copy but back it up with a small use of online services . |
| 13 | Oor goats hev hed that green sickness lately but whativver they all say oor cheese is n't that much affected . ’ |
| 14 | They 've set up an emergency centre , but fear they can do little to stop the devastation . |
| 15 | er is not a possibility of having more open days so that general public can come in to see what 's happening and not only advertise in Harlow but advertise I live in Bishop 's Stortford now in the surrounding districts erm time gets although you said you get fifty per cent of people coming from outside of Harlow it does n't matter where the people come from as long as they come so more open days free erm to get people to come in and er particularly er outside people also I would suggest that the er chairman 's of the local district council 's who are not contributing be invited to the open day to see what er the playhouse is doing for the people who live in there er council area 's to see whether we can get some more supports er as a Stortford resident I 'd be quite happy to add a bit on my community charge to go to the playhouse . . |
| 16 | A lioness , having caught a gazelle , may not kill it but drag it back alive to her cubs and give it to them so that , crippled though it is , the cubs may have a little practice in how to bring it down . |
| 17 | He looked young , a little boy , as he said this and like a little boy who has been thrashed by playground bullies and can not do anything in return but hate them . |
| 18 | wonder why you — But mibbe I should thank ma |
| 19 | We reached this place about ten this morning and are at present wind bound but trust we shall be fairly under way for Flinders tomorrow morning . |
| 20 | The first crag seen as you enter the valley is Buckbarrow Crag — a mere ten minutes from the car ( yes , I know it looks further but trust me ) . |
| 21 | But trust me , they 're there . |
| 22 | Any other allocation , e.g. an equal one at and would be inferior in that the move to and would lose of utility for but raise it by for , offering a raised total to the extent of trapezoid 3456 where = by construction . |
| 23 | At Play In The Fields Of The Lord ( 15 ) Hector Babenco 's lengthy ( over three hours ) but stunningly-wrought ecological tragedy , shot entirely on location in Amazonia , centres on a group of missionaries and a Cheyenne half-breed who set out in different ways to ‘ save ’ a tribe of rain-forest Indians but bring them only death , disease and destruction . |
| 24 | " Find them , " he told Desimir , " buy them for slaves , trick them or kidnap them , but bring them back somehow so that we can bury them under the great gate and build our city of Skadar . " |
| 25 | To picture a man in words , one 's much like another , ’ said Aldhelm , ‘ but bring me to see him , I 'll pick him out from a thousand . ’ |
| 26 | But change they did , and quite radically . |
| 27 | But change it does , and there is no better barometer of that change than what is censored , by libraries as well as by other institutions . |
| 28 | But change it will , and your future will be bright . |
| 29 | His superiority over them can not but make them seem to us inferior , innocent , or naïve , dupes who trust too easily and are soon outwitted . |
| 30 | But the team concluded that it was wiser to keep most of the assets in the portfolio — but make them work better . |