Example sentences of "but [verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preventing a young and disruptive child from playing , but allowing him/her to watch the others at play , may also do the trick . |
| 2 | Accessing this part of the package requires no fiddling with anything in DOS , but needs you to connect the two computers between which files are to be passed via either a parallel or serial lead . |
| 3 | As one unionist remarked , ‘ they gave us the key , but forbade us to open the door . ’ |
| 4 | The proposals were reported to have offered the MNR a privileged status , allowing it to start political activities within Mozambique as soon as a ceasefire had been concluded , but requiring it to recognize the Mozambican Constitution . |
| 5 | These are electronic devices which are connected into the video transfer line , and they not only optimise the signal for copying but enable you to control the picture brightness and colour ; fades can be added as well . |
| 6 | What we have done is to keep unc but use it to eliminate the leading elements of unc and so on , reducing the number of rows by 1 at each step . |
| 7 | The ambassadors of Canada , France , the United States and Venezuela then successfully intervened and persuaded the coup leaders not to kill Aristide but to allow him to leave the country , in order to prevent widespread bloodshed . |
| 8 | The males build similar holes , but leave them to visit the females and mate with them in their tunnels . |
| 9 | Here he learnt that the pope would not release him from the archbishopric , but wished him to expound the Latin doctrine of the Procession of the Holy Spirit at a meeting with representatives of the Greek Church at Bari in October . |
| 10 | On the contrary , their objective was not to overthrow the Franco regime but to adapt it to meet the demands of what promised to be a more international future . |
| 11 | A Directive binds member states to certain specific objectives , but leaves them to implement the necessary measures through national laws . |