Example sentences of "but [verb] [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is too radical and imaginative a suggestion , but has anyone in the local government structure of Suffolk looked beyond their plans to build houses on Ipswich Airport and considered what a fine civil airport for the county either of the two unwanted RAF airfields might make ? |
| 2 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 3 | Brussels had a river but buried it in the 19th century when it began to stink . |
| 4 | Women prisoners in Armagh had political status until 1975 but lost it in the following year and the numbers in Armagh rose dramatically during the late seventies . |
| 5 | Apparently , the process conditions promote deposition of the enclosed material in the larger cavity , but prohibit it in the smaller . |
| 6 | ‘ But shoot it in the right direction , you 're making it your intention/Live those dreams , scheme those schemes . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But shoot it in the right direction , you 're making it your intention/Live those dreams , scheme those schemes . ’ |
| 8 | The king eventually agreed to purchase the wool from the merchants , but to pay them in the so-called Dordrecht Bonds , promissory notes offering the merchants relief from future payments of tax . |