Example sentences of "but [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But sit him in the cockpit of a Stealth Fighter airplane and he 'll whup anyone 's ass ( it 's the rest of the office 's fault for telling him he looks like tom Cruise ) . |
| 2 | He did n't look around when she came in , but asked her over the sizzling of bacon whether she wanted anything to drink . |
| 3 | I could lend it to you but got it at the moment you know . |
| 4 | But when the Friend begins to age the Poet would wish to die : Here the motif of giving and receiving love , central to this group , uses the traditional metaphor of exchanging hearts , but reanimates it by the particularity with which the trope is extended . |
| 5 | True , he 'd had that weird feeling in the hall , but seeing her on the landing a moment ago had been no illusion . |
| 6 | But seeing him for the first time was like when you buy a new make of car you never noticed that kind before , then you realise they 're all over the place . |
| 7 | She had been tricking herself earlier into thinking that he did , that their friendship was nearly as important to him as it was to her , but seeing him in the garden with Marise tonight , and hearing about his marriage , unhappy though it had been , had made her realise that friendship was never as important as passion — at least , she was sure , not to a man . |
| 8 | This situation needs resolution , but to compare it with the rape of Kuwait hardly strengthens your argument against Saddam . |
| 9 | Special schools are not therefore designed to isolate mentally handicapped children but to provide them with the specific form of education they require . |
| 10 | She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod . |
| 11 | It meant that manufacturers no longer needed to seek their power where there was fast-running water , especially in the higher reaches of lonely dales , but found it near the canals which brought coal to them cheaply , or directly upon the coalfields themselves . |
| 12 | Further questions on unemployment ‘ people do n't want training they want jobs ’ , homelessness and the NHS left Mr Major a little wobbly but provided him with the best and closing line of the night . |
| 13 | Su Ragazzi , who are bidding for a league and cup double , beat Jets in straight sets in Sewell 's second game in charge earlier this season but defeated them in the return in Edinburgh . |
| 14 | I understood that it was what The Wedding Present wanted , but explaining it to the head of the sales force was a problem . |
| 15 | Nurturing confidence is one thing , but cosseting them from the harsh realities of top provincial competition could prove totally counter-productive come the two games the count against the New Zealand XV , who themselves will not include any of the All Black tourists in Australia for the Bledisloe Cup series . |
| 16 | This book focuses upon 1985 , a mid-way point in the Thatcher years , but places it in the context of the changing reporting which we have studied in the years 1951 , 1961 , 1971 , 1978 as well as 1985 . |
| 17 | How they used to ask him not to go to their posh prep school , but to meet them in the town . |
| 18 | But send them to the bar for a lager shandy and two halves |
| 19 | The planned and formulaic rationality of the Enlightenment , according to the critique , is increasingly marked by the familiar , the conventional and by ‘ sameness ’ : a sameness which need not exclude difference , but contains it within the rational , functional and acceptable forms of its own choosing . |
| 20 | This closer relationship incidentally increased the role of the state in most of these economies , but subjected it to the risks inherent in the political strings which the lending institutions attached to their ‘ aid ’ . |
| 21 | So she was relieved , but at the same time a little chagrined when he did n't stop the car at all but drove her to the bottom of the footpath that led up to the Hoflin farm . |
| 22 | McAllister had a great chance but put it over the bar . |
| 23 | I suppose someone could have come from Royston , perhaps leaving after us but passing us in the mist to plan their ambush … ’ |
| 24 | Finally , she left for the airfield in a pale-green safari suit , which marked her a soldier 's wife but distinguished her from the lesser spouses . |
| 25 | but power us to the next disgrace . |
| 26 | Corbett had no choice but told her from the beginning of the events at Godstowe . |
| 27 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 28 | They want to hear truths which do not make them narrower but broader , which do not obscure but enlighten , which do not run off them like water , but pierce them to the marrow . ’ |
| 29 | Erm , no , not at , at this moment , but catch me at the break , and certainly you can . |
| 30 | But because of natural bodies we know not the construction , but seek it from the effects , there lies no demonstration of what the causes be we seek for , but only of what they may be . |