Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't need warming up but I pulled in to the kerb without hesitation . |
| 2 | They could perhaps find a replacement make-up artist , though that would prove difficult at such short notice , but someone coming in at the last moment would find it hard to cope with the unusual styles , and the actors would be having problems enough dealing with first-night nerves without having to face any added strain . |
| 3 | erm but you homed in on the needs and you persisted in finding out from me what I wanted which was good and you checked very carefully on the policies in existence so yeah , considering it 's a page which erm can be a bit confusing you did very well . |
| 4 | Me ai n't know what was in that glance , but we moved in behind the police . |
| 5 | They are fed in onto this global trunk circuit erm from many feeder lines , sometimes by radio , sometimes by telephone , but they get in onto the very high-speed trunk circuit , and of those eight and half thousand observations made every hour , it takes between four and five minutes for six and half thousand of them to reach us at Bracknell . |
| 6 | and John one in verse twelve it says but as many have received him , to them he gave the right , the authority , the , the power , to become children of God , even to those who believe on his name and this of course is what making our commitment to Christ is , it 's receiving him for ourselves , it 's plugging in , it 's saying yes I have n't got that power myself , I am not able to do it I need you to come and do it for me , I accept that you have that power , you have that authority , you have dealt with my sin and I receive it for me , we trust Christ to save us from sin and commit ourselves to his kingly ruling our lives , we are as the bible says then , born again , new creations , we are made alive in Christ , I give you one verse in Colossians and in chapter three , verse four it says when Christ who is our life is revelled , then you also no sorry verse , verse three , verse three , sorry for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God but you say that 's all very well that , that brings me into the place of becoming a follower of Jesus yes I 've accepted him , but what about all this pressures here , Christ I , I 'm willing to receive them and to make the centre of my life , I 've received that he died for me , but what about all those things that 's twisting and marring and distorting my life , that 's rubbing me , my life can be more , God wants it to be , well that 's the great thing when Jesus comes , he does n't just come and sit down and that 's all there is to it , but he comes in by the holy spirit and as Christ is the centre of our life so he , as we submit to him and to his authority as we become obedient to his word , doing what he tells us , what he says for us , then the power of his spirit in our life starts operating , God the holy spirit , cos that 's how we become Christians , we are born again of God spirit and God Christ was in us , not the man who walked here on Galilee , he is a man in glory , but he comes into your life and into my life by the holy spirit and he gives us new spiritual resources which help us to overcome those influences of evil that are pressing in on us and trying to , to , to , to distort our lives and depress it into its mould , those things that have spoiled our lives , he gives us spiritual power and spiritual resources over them . |
| 7 | His vivid persona might have been contrived , but it chimed in with the national mood . |