Example sentences of "but [verb] [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Juliana Hatfield might not be a gender warrior or fight city hall , but distances herself from the herd of two-bit supposedly alternative US bar-bands by being outwardly conservative and inwardly maverick . |
| 4 | Corbett had no choice but told her from the beginning of the events at Godstowe . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They do not repeat : ’ Do not bring us to the test , but save us from the evil one ’ , or , ’ Do not bring us to hard testing . ’ |
| 7 | Will he extend warmhearted support to the Labour party , which advocates such a policy , but dissociate himself from the actions of the shadow Home Secretary and the Leader of the Labour party who buy foreign cars ? |
| 8 | Commodore 's CDTV also benefits from an association with CD-A but approaches it from the other direction . |
| 9 | ( Cohen also refers , for instance , to white youth who supported overtly racist immigration policies but dissociated themselves from the National Front ; see also the research on white youth reported in Coffield et al. , |
| 10 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |
| 11 | Several children did not join their friends in the water but watched them from the balustrade along the main road . |
| 12 | Nor that the reason she had sent Maggie to an all-girls ' school was not to protect her from evil-minded youths , but to protect her from the sort of teaching that she seemed to be getting . |
| 13 | ‘ Hilary 's not like that , ’ said Rose , struggling with a handful of vowels , but watching him from the corner of her eye as he made his way nonchalantly up the path . |
| 14 | Ministers had no choice but to distance themselves from the bombing . |