Example sentences of "[pers pn] but [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , where , look see where this light is up here , look , as soon as I 've parked I 'll get it for you but at the moment I ca n't reach it |
| 2 | Not not by you but by the contact . |
| 3 | This deficiency is recognised , not only by you but by the body of lecturers themselves and by the college authorities . |
| 4 | I looked on it as an acknowledgement not just to me but to the programme I represented . |
| 5 | This blow was not aimed at me but at the Church . |
| 6 | The senator was again not looking at me but at the sea , and his voice was immensely sad . |
| 7 | ‘ When we played Albania three weeks ago in Tirana , I made plans to deal with them but on the day they fielded a much different side to the one I expected . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ When we played Albania three weeks ago in Tirana , I made plans to deal with them but on the day they fielded a much different side to the one I expected . ’ |
| 9 | Owen started taking Jane and Zeinab across to join them but on the way they ran into a group of journalists whom Zeinab knew and got into conversation with them . |
| 10 | I rehearse these arguments not in an attempt to settle them but for the purpose of casting doubt upon the thesis that the performance of the economy is at the crux of the Government 's difficulties . |
| 11 | That is a disaster not only for them but for the nation , which is robbed of their abilities . |
| 12 | Call them A — F. Three groups ( A — C ) would be trained on water , three ( D — F ) on the methylanthranilate , and amongst both water and methylanthranilate birds , one group ( A and D ) would be unshocked ( or rather , to be sure , ‘ sham ’ shocked — I would go through the motions of shocking them but with the current turned off ) , one group shocked immediately after training ( B and E ) and one shocked after a delay ( C and F ) . |
| 13 | The eyes of some fish enable them to see not only what is going on in the water around them but in the air above the surface . |
| 14 | And and he took quite a lot of them but in the time that |
| 15 | But you ignored them but in the end we we had to something abo about it . |
| 16 | Here is now , left edge of the penalty area , moving towards the byline and doing well there to take it away from him but at the expense of a throw-in , that 's taken back to Alan , is twenty yards back from the byline and moving back out towards the touchline on the far side . |
| 17 | When he put an arm round her she was unyielding and at odds with the rhythm ; he persisted , compelling her compliance not to him but to the music . |
| 18 | She said goodbye to him but by the time she had entered the hotel , Lubor was already far from her thoughts . |
| 19 | Now that the truth of Iraq 's defeat is sinking in , and their former hero is seen to have feet of clay , some Maghrebis are turning their frustration not against him but against the West . |
| 20 | ‘ The tenant here died after the date of the order for recovery of possession against him but before the expiration of the last of a series of extensions which had been made by way of postponement of the date on which the order was to be complied with . |
| 21 | Lewis says he hopes that public pressure will force Bowe to fight him but after the euphoria of his win over Ruddock and the anticipation of becoming champion , he finds himself as far from the title as ever . |
| 22 | she 's had her chance and I 'm doing all I can to help her but at the end of the day it 's on her shoulders . |
| 23 | He sees the burgeoning Green awareness as a step towards it but at the moment it could be a step towards almost anything . |
| 24 | if it starts getting milky then I change it but at the moment there 's only one little fish see ? |
| 25 | I thought long and hard about it but in the end I decided it would be for the best . |
| 26 | We argued about it but in the end he agreed I had to tell the Josephs . |
| 27 | Neville Southall , whose saves had prevented Forest running away with the game in the first half , gathered the ball and started to think about clearing it but in the view of the referee , George Tyson , he had thought too long . |
| 28 | Every area you look at South Africa in a report I gave to the Norwegian government which they commissioned we pointed out every area is like a major disaster area as if you 've been hit by an earthquake in every area of human activity and that situation needs something like a martial plan if we are , a martial aid plan , if we 're to address it but in the world we live in there 's no prospect of such assistance coming to Southern Africa . |
| 29 | I 'd made it but by the skin of my teeth . |
| 30 | And if Mobuto was killed on American soil it would prove a severe embarrassment not only to us but to the President as well . |