Example sentences of "but [verb] [pron] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones was in his room in the Cabinet Offices , carrying on the routine business of a Labour Government , of which paradoxically he was throughout his life a consistent voting supporter , but enjoying none of the intimacy with MacDonald which he had achieved with each of the three preceding Prime Ministers . |
| 2 | Maclagan — jogged silently down the lock 's east wall but found none of the expected demolitions at its gates . |
| 3 | So many mixed feelings of guilt and anxiety , love and hate can blur the issue that it may be important to adopt the suggestion of one therapist and discuss all the issues with a wise counsellor , perhaps a minister or some other friend of the family , who knows most of the people concerned but has none of the strong emotional involvement of a family member . |
| 4 | The heavy labour not only fought the flab around his waist but cured him of the insomnia he had suffered from for so many years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The officer did not invite the defendant to express a preference for giving blood or urine but warned him of the consequences of failure to provide a specimen and gave him the opportunity to put forward any reasons why a specimen of blood could not be taken by a doctor . |
| 7 | She has grown into an elegant and gracious woman , but lost none of the spark that made her such an endearing young bride . |
| 8 | I was allowed no anaesthetic because I was so drunk , but felt nothing of the emergency dental surgery or stitches . |
| 9 | What did she know of this man who was now her husband , and what was to become of them , two strangers who had begun to be familiar with each other 's bodies but knew nothing of the thoughts and emotions that lay within . |
| 10 | After a three-hour retirement , the jury acquitted the appellant of the offence charged under section 18 , but convicted him of the lesser offence under section 20 . |
| 11 | Radcliffe 's description of the period 1788 – 1803 for Lancashire cotton weavers mingles experience and myth but conveys something of the style of the good times : " Their dwellings and small gardens clean and neat — all the family well clad — the men each with a watch in his pocket , and the women dressed to their own fancy — the church crowded to excess every Sunday — every house well furnished . " |