Example sentences of "but [subord] [pron] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thanked them for their efforts but although they waited for a tip it was not forthcoming , so they went off grumbling . |
| 2 | Experience may help you take some of these into account but if you went for a fixed fee you may have to pitch it at such a level to allow for these that it 's perhaps twice what it might be and you could lose the client . |
| 3 | ‘ But if you allow for a middleman … ’ |
| 4 | Soon Godwin was to sell the shop to Collins — and trigger its slow decline — but before he quit for a job as chief editor with Penguin Books he decided to open a paperback section in Old Compton Street . |
| 5 | But after he browsed for a while staff in the Los Angeles shop , told Jacko , above , they were out of stock . |
| 6 | But when we went for a fitting , the garments had been made with buttons just sewn onto tacky fake buttonholes . |
| 7 | The station was offered to us for the sum of £20,000 , but when we asked for a private valuation in the hope of securing a loan to purchase the site , the valuer valued the site at only £10,000 . |