Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After dinner the people watch the television but I prefer to watch the tropical fish in the Smiths ' tank : give me piranha fish any day over cricket or soap operas . |
| 2 | I hit the first man with the wooden end of my gun and he fell down , but I had to shoot the second man . |
| 3 | The shops were opening and I browsed for a while in one that sold books as well as newspapers and magazines , but I failed to find the American edition of Rodriguez 's book . |
| 4 | But I chose to do the instrumental album , even though it was a lot smaller scale , because I had more control . |
| 5 | But I intended to follow the same course of action as I had over the earlier incident : to say nothing until he gave me an opening . |
| 6 | I realize I am too awake to fall back asleep but I manage to make the fourth minute take longer than the previous three to count out , or finally |
| 7 | I never provoked her ; I was cautious and defensive , as is my habit ; I did n't even ask questions ; but I wanted to know the worst . |
| 8 | ‘ Probably , but I want to make the most of every minute . |
| 9 | But I want to know the precise details . |
| 10 | But I have to hear the whole tale . |
| 11 | ‘ There are a lot of similarities between the two provinces , but I have to learn the unique aspects of the Alaska operation and give effective support to the objectives . ’ |
| 12 | But I think to detect the acrid stench of its breath in this one . |
| 13 | The second bit I 've seen but I need to see the first bit . |
| 14 | There is hardly ever a good reason why the deal should not be set out in writing , and this may help to avoid future dispute , but you need to check the proposed wording carefully in conjunction with your advisers . |
| 15 | But she refuses to spend the next seven months in hospital — and I ca n't say I blame her . |
| 16 | But she had to do the best she could . |
| 17 | But she seemed to accept the Glaswegian accent and his story of having left Scotland for London in his teens . |
| 18 | But she seems to understand the basic priciples of pool . |
| 19 | ‘ We made it difficult for ourselves , but we needed to get the early breakthrough , ’ he added . |
| 20 | dir : I 'm sorry , but we have to convince the medical research establishment that we can deliver high quality work not these small scale , unquantifiable studies of yours . |
| 21 | But we refuse to accept the standard television definition of what beauty is . |
| 22 | When the storm broke they were literally in the front line , but they continued to stock The Satanic Verses and in many cases display it prominently . |
| 23 | It took about nine days for them completely to stop eating green eggs , but they continued to enjoy the ordinary white egg . |
| 24 | Astronomers at JTL , afraid of being scooped by the amateurs , put out a press release claiming IRAS discovered it first — but they failed to mention the British team that found it for them . |
| 25 | And now he 's , they 've got one and I think it was about five hundred pounds , they bought this one s but they managed to sell the other one for about a hundred and fifty they say . |
| 26 | The final stage between Cresswell and Burslem gave us a few anxious moments when Dave and Richard became ensnared in City Centre traffic but they managed to complete the 24 hour Tour de Matthey with 5 minutes to spare ! |
| 27 | Speeches like Bob Giles ' are all very well but they tend to obliterate the cool thinking so necessary by those who hold positions of trust . |
| 28 | Some of them were politer than others , but they tended to ask the same questions as they trampled through the house . |
| 29 | A number of documentary collections , some of them drawing on Soviet publications , were compiled by western scholars , but they tended to bear the strong imprint of liberal editorship and to concentrate on political rather than socio-economic material . |
| 30 | MICHAEL KINANE , the champion jockey of Ireland , completed the most sensational 24 hours of his career when he took the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on the British-trained 19-1 outsider , Carroll House , at Longchamp yesterday , but he had to endure the longest 20 minutes of his life before he could be sure the victory was his . |