Example sentences of "but [verb] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understood that it was what The Wedding Present wanted , but explaining it to the head of the sales force was a problem . |
| 2 | But send them to the bar for a lager shandy and two halves |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | but power us to the next disgrace . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | The owner did not intend to leave the registration document but showed it to the dealer who arranged a trick whereby the owner was called away on an imaginary emergency thereby forgetting the registration document . |
| 8 | I feel very strongly that Salford should end this free giving away of degrees , but give them to the deserved students only — us . |
| 9 | ‘ It is bad enough doing that to the uninitiated , but to do it to the Secretary of State is really beyond the pale — it 's quite pathetic . ’ |
| 10 | It looks as though there lies behind D a chronicle which received additions in Christ Church Canterbury , and at least one of those additions , on Æthelnoth 's journey to Rome , was possibly present in a version which reached St Augustine 's , where it was copied in a slightly modified form into the predecessor of E. St Augustine 's may also have received the 1023 entry in D , but abbreviated it to the single sentence which E now contains . |
| 11 | They say they 've tried everything — including secure accommodation — but sending him to the Costa Blanca to stay with his grandparents seemed the most appropriate course of action . |
| 12 | Quoting messages ; The only way I can see of ‘ reply'ing to a message , but sending it to the listserver is by FORWARDing it . |
| 13 | It was easier to follow in the darkness , but exposed them to the full force of the wind and rain . |
| 14 | Graziano , 68 , won the world title in 1947 with a sixth-round knock-out of Tony Zale but lost it to the same fighter less than a year later . |
| 15 | How to keep doing what one enjoyed doing as a child but adapting it to the changing circumstances . |
| 16 | He did not label the boxes to go to particular destinations but left it to the rail company to allot the appropriate number of boxes to the various destinations . |
| 17 | The Directive prescribes that there should be criminal penalties for its breach , but leaves it to the implementing legislation in each member state to decide what these should be . |