Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing had prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh , says Morton . |
| 2 | But nothing had prepared her for the monumental size and sheer glamour of the building . |
| 3 | But nothing has prepared us for this divine outburst . |
| 4 | A trip to the local agent found they had not got one in stock , but I managed to get one for a P6 car . |
| 5 | It 's a funny thing but I remember gritting myself for Kirk for about two months because of his reputation for being difficult . |
| 6 | I know I might go to jail , but I 've prepared myself for it . |
| 7 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 8 | Mum always opened the letters but I had to read them for her . |
| 9 | ‘ But I do thank you for your hospitality , sir . |
| 10 | ‘ No disrespect to you , Marge , but I want to save myself for when I get married . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't know your name , but I want to thank you for your kindness to me on the night I left Weatherbury . |
| 12 | But I need to see you for a moment . |
| 13 | But you had known her for so long that she must have seemed immortal . ’ |
| 14 | But you have to leave it for like months . |
| 15 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 16 | She had thought long and hard before deciding that it was best for him to hear it from her rather than risk it reaching him through the more sensational tabloids , but she had braced herself for an outburst of shock , anger , even disgust . |
| 17 | But she does do them for her family and friends . |
| 18 | So I mean , not , were n't gon na give us it , but we had to do it for |
| 19 | But we have budgeted it for eighty five K at thirty six per cent and we achieved a hundred and three at thirty eight . |
| 20 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 21 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 22 | But they 'd asked me for an epitaph not an editorial and , in any case , I 'd already got the clear impression that most of these unaccustomed mourners could recognise a tolling bell when they heard it , but that like so many of the other warnings that had been laid on them over the years by teachers , social workers and magistrates , they had simply decided that any other way of life was simply too dull , too straight , even to be contemplated . |
| 23 | Chelsea , the club he joined four days later , are already paying Swindon 120,000 pounds in compensation for Hoddle the manager , but they 'd offered nothing for Hoddle the player , threatening to withdraw his playing contract rather than part with any more money . |
| 24 | They have got enough money but they like to keep it for as long as possible . |
| 25 | He was devoted to the Prince , but he had served him for ten years and his wife had scarcely seen him . |
| 26 | But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) . |
| 27 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 28 | If in past decades we waited for the telegram to arrive , it did not lessen the shock , but it did prepare us for the event . |
| 29 | Well I do know what I want to do , but it 's knocked me for six cos I sort of felt really guilty |