Example sentences of "but [verb] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I remember , it went , ‘ Do not heed the siren voices of the appeasers but seek ye the enemy within . ’ |
| 2 | They responded by giving the general area a few desultory squirts with their foam , but informed me the place was a total loss , and that I should be fully content with having got out of it alive . |
| 3 | They may not always be too keen on having to wash with it … but give them the chance to make a big splash somewhere and they will never be any happier . |
| 4 | But give me the benefit of the biochemical doubt , for that is perhaps not , except amongst professional biochemists , the most important question . |
| 5 | She no longer kept them in cages but allowed them the run of the house and garden . |
| 6 | The prime aim of the Marriott fellowship is not to turn chemists into budding journalists , but to give them the chance to see some of the opportunities available in scientific publishing without committing themselves . |
| 7 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 8 | The bearded one did not believe his treacherous words , but gave him the benefit of the doubt and twenty-four hours to reveal the whereabouts of the vessel . |
| 9 | They were out at work often till late evening , but gave us the run of the house and William had the chance to get on with some schoolwork . |
| 10 | I wanted as far as possible to forearm the boy at the beginning of adolescence — not ramming a weapon into his hand willy-nilly , but showing him the size and shape of it and where it lies in such a way that he would take it up without realizing he was doing so and find himself using it when he needed to . |
| 11 | Suppose somebody read to you , without telling you the author , but telling you the date — the early seventeenth century lines like this ‘ But let my due feet never fail to walk the studious cloisters pale and love the high embowered rough with antique pillars and and storeyed windows richly dyked , casting a dim religious light , there let the pealing organ blow to the full-voiced choir below in service high and anthems clear , as may with sweetness through mine ear dissolve me into ecstasies and bring all heaven before my eyes . |
| 12 | In the wake of the gene-splicing revolution , we have the technology but have we the right to make our own animals ? |
| 13 | There was nothing for it but to tell her the truth . |
| 14 | But to tell her the truth ? |
| 15 | I suppose this was partly to do with the heat — it is very hot here at present — but to tell you the truth I do n't remember very much about it . |
| 16 | Actually he majored in Phys Ed , but to tell you the truth , Rickie was always a slow learner . |
| 17 | " But to tell you the truth , I sometimes feel like clearing out of this warren altogether . |
| 18 | This publicity is a recent development , but to tell you the truth , when I was a teenager date rape was simply a fact of life . |