Example sentences of "but [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beecham said that any fool can conduct three concerts with an orchestra , but to go on improving is like going on a race track where it is possible to improve your time at first , but each new improvement involves great effort and often some danger . |
| 2 | But to go on from this to the recommendation of the Bullock Report that workers should have representation on a company 's board is to change the nature of the institution , which in my judgment is quite unwarranted . |
| 3 | But to go on being dedicated when you 're a rotten painter ! |
| 4 | There was nothing for it now but to go on . |
| 5 | I mean to stop hating , but to go on fighting for what is right for my people . ’ |
| 6 | Not to sleep but simply to think , freely and unobserved , without the burden of her mother 's solicitude , the obligation not only to look cheerful but to go on repeating how well she felt so that Amabel — always unnerved by silence — should not weary her further by growing alarmed . |
| 7 | She determine not to be put off by her first failure , but to go on doing things to Mary Lou so that in the end the class would have to put the tricks down to Alicia and Daryl . |
| 8 | Now I 've not mentioned this not totally creditable episode in Milton 's life , I 've not mentioned it simply to make him unlikeable to you , but to go on and say that the kind of egoism which issues in this way in his life issues in a rather different way in his worth . |
| 9 | But to go up that bit bit further than the other . |
| 10 | But to go down this path of analysis is to put things in an unreasonably negative light . |
| 11 | But to go down to ten , that 's good . |
| 12 | If firms exploit the escape clause , IG Metall may have little choice but to go along . |
| 13 | Mullins , badly bloodied , had little choice but to go off . |
| 14 | But to go back to the old ways ‘ would be a colossal mistake , ’ he declared . |
| 15 | If , however , you find yourself carrying three or four such problems it seems clear that there is nothing for it but to go back and attack the first difficulties again . |
| 16 | But to go back to my earlier question — why so long in my case ? |
| 17 | Nothing for it but to go back the way you came , to Neu St Johann , thence down the Toggenburg valley through the resorts of Nesslau and Ebnat-Kappel to Wattwil . |
| 18 | I 'll come back to that in a moment because we still only enrol a rather tiny proportion of those active in our sport but to go back to the point about training . |
| 19 | ‘ But to go out on a limb and take any bunch of morons , just those that happened to be around when he met Plumpton , and propose that they should do this thing — that 's really sticking your neck out . |
| 20 | On the 4th , Sophie , who normally visited her sister every day to help out , decided not to go , but to go out for a walk instead . |
| 21 | And so people had no other option but to go out to work . |
| 22 | And so you find yourself forced , not merely to note the diversity of belief and the strength of individual confidence , and to be a bit sceptical , but to search around for principles of adjudication , for ways of trying to sort out what beliefs are reasonable and acceptable , and what not . |
| 23 | Addamax , whose security technology was submitted but passed over when OSF selected SecureWare for its OSF/1 operating system , filed the $100m anti-trust suit in April 1991 , also naming Hewlett-Packard and Digital . |
| 24 | The greater part of their duties in terms of expenditure was not handed down to the boroughs but passed over to newly established joint boards for police , the fire brigade , passenger transport and the probation service because these functions require wider operational areas than the boroughs can provide . |
| 25 | His funeral , held on May 23 , was attended by several thousand mourners , but passed off without violence . |
| 26 | Gustavus did not wait to reduce Ingolstadt but rode off to meet his own death at Lützen . |
| 27 | ‘ Hello , Piper , you are a little bit late for a bit of breakfast but sit down and have a mug of tea . ’ |
| 28 | But sit down quietly and , after a while , you become invisible . |
| 29 | Having seized and anaesthetised one , she does not withdraw her sting but flies back to her burrow with the fly still impaled behind her like a sausage on a stick . |
| 30 | Peter does n't listen , but goes on lifting his big , heavy head , trying to swallow the moon . |