Example sentences of "[adv] but [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Collate means not only collect together but organize it . |
| 2 | He did n't like her much but wanted her to stay . |
| 3 | I do n't , I mean we do n't have them much but do we really ? |
| 4 | She must have sensed that one day I would be leaving her again , and that nearly broke my heart , knowing the sadness she must feel all too well in my experiences with lovers who never stayed long but left me feeling as if part of me had been torn from my body . |
| 5 | I remember a horrifying dream I had during one Wimbledon wherein I was sitting on top of a tall step-ladder half-way down the garden in the umpire 's position — not awarding points to the thrusting vegetation below but conducting them with a baton . |
| 6 | Ben Turner , 18 , admitted knocking him down but said he tried to stop the others from piling in . |
| 7 | This is not really improved if worn backwards or upside down but try it inside out ! |
| 8 | Styles and designs vary greatly but to help you make your choice please note : |
| 9 | Escaping is bad enough but doing it in the middle of the night is inexcusable . |
| 10 | yeah it looks a real treat it does and it 's just taken that Cuprinol nicely but mind you I did n't put it up too thick I well it 's had two coats so it does , it looks a treat so er I 'm a I 'm very pleased with it anyway and er the woman there , Rita |
| 11 | I mean obviously not not desperately but do you think he does n't think oh she 's a complete |
| 12 | Er I will I will hand over but let me just say this that my instinct is that it a policy expressed in the way you 've you 've suggested is just superfluous because all you 're doing is describing in in a po in upper case letters , the situation as it is and that that my answer is that it would that there would be no need for such a it would be gratuitously ap it 's an unnecessary statement . |
| 13 | Mr Carruthers said that the vast majority of evidence was over but acknowledged he was concerned that Mr McTear would not be able to conclude his testimony . |
| 14 | His pupils will tell you differently — well not tell you exactly but demonstrate it in their changed lifestyle , which even their parents notice . |
| 15 | ‘ If she has indeed pointed the way , ’ said the abbot firmly , ‘ we can not but follow it . |
| 16 | His superiority over them can not but make them seem to us inferior , innocent , or naïve , dupes who trust too easily and are soon outwitted . |
| 17 | The august length of the Champs Elysées culminating in the sublime Arc de Triomphe with the eternal flame burning beneath it could not but fill me with reverential awe . |
| 18 | You have too much good sense not to discover that I , in spite of my heart and all the pride of it , can not but love you and have put on a behaviour to you that was much against my heart , in hopes to frighten you from your reservedness . |
| 19 | Not but do you think like something like that , what do you think the school 's responsibility is ? |
| 20 | Dr Neil could not but admire her . |
| 21 | Oor goats hev hed that green sickness lately but whativver they all say oor cheese is n't that much affected . ’ |
| 22 | Plus within my environmental thing I would like to be able to see if we can get four areas within the school and what I was thinking about , not the big areas outside in the gardens etcetera but do you know as you walk along from our corridor up past the dining hall and there 's that little bit of enclosed space |
| 23 | People do n't mind being referred if it 's something that is genuinely but say they phone Leeds and Leeds do n't know and Leeds refer them to a number they think it is and then they refer to a third number then somebody gets . |
| 24 | The fact that they had been warned off but made it the more attractive . |
| 25 | Do n't pull them off but dab them with a little paraffin . |
| 26 | In mitigation Ronald Coia said Mr Siddle had been at his son 's home but decided he had to get away from the festivities . |
| 27 | to five p.m. but put it on tape for God 's sake we ca n't stand this you know . |
| 28 | ‘ It is a fantastic achievement to win here just once but to do it six times is amazing and a very special feat . ’ |
| 29 | Dexter had met Helen Briggs only once but liked her straight away — the bubbling laugh , the enormous bosom , the trunk-like legs and , above all , the endless cigarettes that drooped from her finger . |
| 30 | The way to resolve this necessary dilemma is surely not to discredit spatial policy altogether but to contextualise it , to draw out the links between the locally specific and the internationally ubiquitous , as Patrick Bond describes in his description of the campaign for the community control of capital in Baltimore ( chapter 8 ) . |