Example sentences of "but [to-vb] them [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How they used to ask him not to go to their posh prep school , but to meet them in the town . |
| 2 | I am not saying that natural energy flows do not exist , but to detect them alongside the multitude of artificial energy sources , and the thought forms of everyone who has visited or passed through the site , is likely to be confusing , to say the least . |
| 3 | It decided not to pay out the sums so received to individual solicitors as a sort of dividend but to apply them for the benefit of the profession as a whole . |
| 4 | He has not just found a role for himself , which was something he had agonized over for years , but has used his position to lead an assault on the ills of modern society ; to try to alter people 's basic thinking , not just in an effort to improve their lives , but to persuade them of the need to preserve the planet for future generations . |
| 5 | I found artefacts dating back a century and felt that it was important not just to preserve them , but to use them in the education of today 's children . ’ |
| 6 | What the historian is trying to do is not merely to record the events and happenings of war , but to study them against the background of the world in which the long Anglo-French conflict was fought . |