Example sentences of "but [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stains and protects in one , allowing the woodgrain to show , but filtering out ultra-violet light and repelling water |
| 2 | The ventral arm plates are axe shaped ; thin proximally but flaring out with a wide convex distal edge and only contiguous on the first few arm segments . |
| 3 | Basically , that means maintaining quality work , but easing down to give my body time to recover and possibly even occasionally allowing myself the luxury of collapsing on the settee , falling asleep and dreaming of all those races I wish I could still win . |
| 4 | Usually the Law ignores what we get up to down in Deptford , but firing off shotguns is something they have a duty to respond to . |
| 5 | The feeling swept over me that I had truly left Darlington Hall behind , and I must confess I did feel a slight sense of alarm — a sense aggravated by the feeling that I was perhaps not on the correct road at all , but speeding off in totally the wrong direction into a wilderness . |
| 6 | She responded , not laughing but sucking in her cheeks like a man blowing onto his hands in cold weather . |
| 7 | A few seconds later the pipes are assembled and I enter the town playing Highland Laddie , not at the front of the column , but bringing up the rear . |
| 8 | Traditionally , the law has said that allowing someone who is terminally ill to die is lawful , but bringing about his or her death is unlawful , even if he or she consents or requests it . |
| 9 | The play is based on David Jones 's book — an epic poem centred on the First World War but bringing in Welsh military history and mythological references from Roman times . |
| 10 | But sawing off heads is a bit of a chore . |
| 11 | so I then find myself doing nothing else but walking around so I go and ask |
| 12 | But walking along beside him , sucking his cane , and looking ineffably bored as he escorted his new marchioness , née Miss Maybelle Foy , the meat-packer 's heiress from Chicago , was none other than Havvie Blaine , of unblessed memory . |
| 13 | John and Mary opened in Hollywood on 25 November 1969 , starting off sluggishly , but ending up making $1.2 million profit . |
| 14 | We also got unanimous sympathy for pissing on Spurs , but ending up with just a point . |
| 15 | Area fisheries officer Vaughan Lewis said : ‘ The Wye has a healthy trout population but silting up of the river bed can be a problem . |
| 16 | I have no interest in Carmichael 's enterprises , but keeping in seems to be the only way to find what happened . |
| 17 | The impact of tourism stops pretty soon outside the medieval walls of the town , and the dwellings are like those of any impoverished fishing village in Cornwall , Sicily or Provence : low , simple buildings containing no more than the most primitive necessities , but opening on to the turquoise bay , with the Venetian walls on the western side and red cliffs to the east . |
| 18 | Derek had been terrified of being found work as a clerk or a porter , but signing on had cheered him up immensely : he too was completely unemployable . |
| 19 | With political change , the established constitutional authorities find themselves in a situation where they are forced to come to terms with new and emerging patterns of political power and practice that are outside ( but pressing in on ) the established constitution that is supposedly made sense of through their theories . |
| 20 | Julia Swift , author of 12 Steps To Beautiful Breasts ( Thorsons ) , replied : ‘ Breasts are just fatty tissue , but toning up the muscles which lie underneath and around does improve a profile . |
| 21 | But looking up at Ilbrec she saw such a heartbroken sorrow that without a word she let him stoop and take Fand from her . |
| 22 | The prince was seated , not in his chair of state , but between two of his clerks at a trestle table , with a quantity of papers and parchments spread before them ; and his treasurer stood at his shoulder , ready to advise if requested , but looking on so impartially that it seemed to her he had already done his share . |
| 23 | I ai n't really scared of the dark , not normally , but looking out there , it 's a bit scary . |
| 24 | But looking out of the window he saw the hills again . |
| 25 | She quickly changed her position , so that she was no longer facing him but looking out towards the lake . |
| 26 | But looking down at the words now , it did not appear so simple . |
| 27 | Her eyes were lowered , not closed , but looking down at her hands . |
| 28 | By the beginning of the third week , Charlie could only just fit his swollen toes into the heavy leather boots the army had supplied him with , but looking down the rows of feet that adorned the barrack room floor each morning he could see that none of his comrades was any better off . |
| 29 | But looking back , we seem to have a selective memory for the best bits of the past . |
| 30 | But looking back , it all came from the way he spoke so affectionately about his family . |