Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I learnt to respect other religions . " |
| 2 | My billetors were kind , but I had to spend considerable time in their sitting-room , and I felt this was an invasion of privacy for both of us . |
| 3 | ‘ I certainly have n't invited him , but I had to give Slender Billy a score of tickets , so who knows who he might bring ? ’ |
| 4 | P. Mainly skaters , some college people out of skating but I like to make new friends all the time . |
| 5 | My predecessor had read law and obtained a first , but I chose to read social anthropology simply because of a pleasure in the subject . |
| 6 | " But I have to take calculated risks sometimes . |
| 7 | I had tried it before and put on more weight due to not re-educating my eating habits , but I needed to see immediate results to get the enthusiasm to continue dieting . |
| 8 | I 'm no expert , but I love to have huge displays whenever I can afford them , ’ says Clarissa . |
| 9 | Two months later her gall bladder had been removed , but she continued to experience abdominal discomfort . |
| 10 | A teaching job added to her duties but she began to write short stories . |
| 11 | It is entirely up to them who they choose , but we try to pinpoint likely candidates such as professionals from the country or area of the sponsoring company . |
| 12 | The main thrust will be in the middle ground , but we want to publish good quality literary works as well . |
| 13 | Most of that will go on delivering the programmes er and most of that is existing funding and so we 're going to have to use a lot of it on that , but we want to do new things as well . |
| 14 | Alright , as we tend to , as each is observed empirically , as we , as we get wealthier , not only do we want to consume more of some good , but we want to consume different varieties of some , of some good . |
| 15 | As for emulating CNN , he is more cautious : ‘ Our terrestrial activity has to remain our core activity , but we have to explore new business opportunities . ’ |
| 16 | Dynamic programming is used to compute a shortest path between every pair of vertices in a weighted directed graph G. This algorithm does not require all edge weights to be positive , but we have to ban negative length cycles . |
| 17 | But they tend to offer full-time courses aimed at students under 19 and many adults continue to have special educational needs long after they leave full-time education . |
| 18 | But they seem to have other things on their mind than lesbian literary history . |
| 19 | Young toddlers can thrive on a diet of milk but they need to drink large quantities and need vitamin and mineral supplements . |
| 20 | Not only must the cells differentiate into a wide variety of cell types such as cartilage and neurons , but they have to migrate long distances to very special sites in the embryo . |
| 21 | This led some people to maintain that he had derived the idea of civil disobedience from Thoreau , a fact which Gandhi himself denied.a In due course he substituted the phrase ‘ civil resistance ’ for ‘ civil disobedience ’ on the grounds that it conveyed the notion of non-violence better , but he continued to regard civil disobedience as a branch of satyāgraha . |
| 22 | From what I 've seen of Bardsley , he reminds me a bit of Sterland — he looks very good going forward but he seemed to leave gaping holes at the back when he played for England ( ca n't remember who it was against ) . |
| 23 | He thought that probably it would be the evening before Jagatan woke , but he needed to discuss certain matters with him before he left for Kinsai . |
| 24 | Immigration to Britain , a country of net emigration ( which means that more people emigrate from it than immigrate to it ) did not in itself throw up social problems but it served to highlight social deprivation . |
| 25 | The paper was relaunched in a new format as the Sun , but it failed to win up-market readers , while the old loyalists were put off . |
| 26 | Management by exception enables a manager to devote his or her energies to significant deviations ; this does not mean that he or she ignores all other results but it helps to focus managerial effort . |
| 27 | Selection for technical education continued to take place , generally at thirteen , but it tended to reflect existing patterns set by two years of secondary schooling so that grammar school successes were unlikely to change in mid-stream . |