Example sentences of "but [verb] [pers pn] in 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | How they used to ask him not to go to their posh prep school , but to meet them in the town . |
| 6 | I suppose someone could have come from Royston , perhaps leaving after us but passing us in the mist to plan their ambush … ’ |
| 7 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 8 | Brussels had a river but buried it in the 19th century when it began to stink . |
| 9 | He did n't put the key in his pocket , but hid it in the plant pot next to the door . |
| 10 | Do n't shrug them off and be embarrassed , but accept them in the way they are intended — with grace and gratitude . |
| 11 | but give them in the morning cos we 've got to come over in the morning have n't we ? |
| 12 | But facing me in the nets for two winters , he got to know my bowling inside out and by the end of our stay in Cape Town he was hammering me all around the practice area . |
| 13 | That was a plot against Rachel she had never thought of , to take up maths again but to do it in the USA . |
| 14 | ‘ Indoors ? ’ asked Camille , who had again nearly lost her temper completely but retrieved it in the nick of time . |
| 15 | I found artefacts dating back a century and felt that it was important not just to preserve them , but to use them in the education of today 's children . ’ |
| 16 | Escaping is bad enough but doing it in the middle of the night is inexcusable . |
| 17 | Women prisoners in Armagh had political status until 1975 but lost it in the following year and the numbers in Armagh rose dramatically during the late seventies . |
| 18 | Apparently , the process conditions promote deposition of the enclosed material in the larger cavity , but prohibit it in the smaller . |
| 19 | ‘ But shoot it in the right direction , you 're making it your intention/Live those dreams , scheme those schemes . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But shoot it in the right direction , you 're making it your intention/Live those dreams , scheme those schemes . ’ |
| 21 | If you took them in the daytime , they 'd come back , but taking them in the dark , when they were asleep into the woodlands , they 'd settle much better do you see . |
| 22 | The king eventually agreed to purchase the wool from the merchants , but to pay them in the so-called Dordrecht Bonds , promissory notes offering the merchants relief from future payments of tax . |
| 23 | But leave him in the evergreen |
| 24 | I could not stay , but left her in the care of the doctor and several nurses , and returned to London . |