Example sentences of "but [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said nothing , but gazed at him with wide , terrified eyes , then almost involuntarily she made a small gesture with her hands to ward him off and he , taking it as a token of reciprocal feeling , stepped forward and took her in his arms . |
| 2 | Not only then is subcontracting widely practised but the small firms are so dependent on a limited range of buyers that they have little alternative but to accommodate to tight kanban schedules . |
| 3 | What was Meh'Lindi 's whole purpose , what was her very life , but to go into perilous places , always to emerge alive ? |
| 4 | Not to go at our charge , but to go at your charge . |
| 5 | There was nothing for it but to go with him . |
| 6 | But to go with the slur of murder still upon him , and always the threat of pursuit and capture ? |
| 7 | But to go beyond this general observation we must examine the pattern of accumulation since the late fifties . |
| 8 | Work-people would not be expected to reason why , but to go on doing until they retired . |
| 9 | The increase was even felt to be too great : in 1964 , when British groups reached 212 , it was decided to slow down the growth in the UK — not to ‘ act upon the ephemeral enthusiasms of an odd individual ’ , but to go for quality . |
| 10 | Faced with four alternative approaches to valuation — whether it should be based on capital values , rental values , maintenance costs or rebuilding costs — its choice was not to go for one of them , or even a mixture of two of them , but to go for all four of them . |
| 11 | British producers have little choice but to go for the home market , because the lion share of their budgets comes from the B B C , I T V or Channel Four who commission the programmes in the first place . |
| 12 | But to go to a strange woman and ask her … what would she have to ask her ? |
| 13 | But to go to the other extreme and elevate people suffering from such abnormalities into a norm for society not only threatens society but is dangerous to the individuals themselves , since it excludes them from the consideration of help and treatment . |
| 14 | There was no way left but to go to them . |
| 15 | So we 've been left with no other avenue but to go to law . |
| 16 | He had tried to hide his fears from his poor wife and gone down to his warehouse where another message had been awaiting him : he was not to return home , the short letter instructed , but to go to the House of the Crutched Friars where his anxieties would be resolved . |
| 17 | But to go to somebody like him who knew his job |
| 18 | The car 's just a practical thing to me , I mean I like to drive around in comfort , everybody likes a nice car , I 'm not saying that , but to go to the extreme of spending what would say , seventy or eighty thousand pounds on a Porsche , I 'd have to be really , really rich before I would consider the luxury of having a Porsche . |
| 19 | But to go to and to go to I would have thought would have taken similar lengths of time . |
| 20 | Although , in principle , the communities of interest are allowed to raise in ‘ contributions ’ only the amounts agreed by the delegates from their member ‘ organizations or associated labour ’ , in practice , such organizations have little option but to agree with proposals presented to them by the community managers . |
| 21 | Once Royle had turned City down , Swales and his board had little option but to agree to Kendall 's terms . |
| 22 | Once Royle had turned City down , Swales and his board had little option but to agree to Kendall 's terms . |
| 23 | As a result , you may have little practical alternative but to agree to increased working hours or to work in a different area , despite the fact that the contract does not provide for such things , if they are commercially necessary from the point of view of the business . |
| 24 | All three features are designed to convey that Henry is not just looking at the roots but reflecting on them and struggling to think what it is they bring to mind . |
| 25 | It now appears that , in addition to this , I will be expected to part with a further portion of my income as a graduate tax to pay for my education , the last three years of which I am spending in hospitals , not only studying , but assisting on a voluntary basis with essential clinical procedures and tests . |
| 26 | She 'd hated the submarine journey across the North Sea , especially as she was a bit claustrophobic , but stepping over the side into that ridiculous little rubber boat was terrifying . |
| 27 | It was a square , prefabricated building , none too appropriate to the site , but banished to the least obtrusive position , behind the entrance kiosk . |
| 28 | And is the old rumour true ; are strings in reality all the same , but stuffed into different packages ? |
| 29 | Two wheeled carts are easier to balance than a single wheeled barrow , but tend to be more difficult to manoeuvre . |
| 30 | Other indicators , such as consumption anomalies and incident , of misuse , are available but tend to be unreliable . |