Example sentences of "but [verb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event she did neither , but lay there for a while wondering what Johnny was doing , hidden away from her behind time 's misty barrier . |
| 2 | She did not aim for sleep , though , but lay there for an age wanting some of her anger back . |
| 3 | Elizabeth and Helen moved into their own basement flat in an inner-city suburb in 1987. they are middle-aged and spent nearly thirty years together at the same mental handicap hospital but lived separately for the two years before the move into the community because Helen was transferred to a smaller institution . |
| 4 | He did n't reply , but made straight for the Chesterfield . |
| 5 | Hyenas , to take another example , hunt in groups for zebra , but hunt singly for the smaller Thomson 's gazelle . |
| 6 | De Warenne was recommended to use a ford some distance below the narrow bridge , but opted instead for a quicker , decisive attack over the bridge . |
| 7 | The meeting had been convened at the initiative of Yugoslavia as current chairman of the NAM , and the Yugoslav Foreign Minister Budimir Loncar said at a press conference afterwards that " the foreign ministers could not agree on a joint statement , but opted instead for a plan of action to prevent the war 's escalation … starting with the rapid deployment of a mission of three to four ministers to Baghdad within a few days " . |
| 8 | Significantly Fëanor learns not from Manwë , nor Ulmo , but from Aulé , the smith of the Valar and the most similar of them to Melkor ; Aulé too is responsible for the despatch of Saruman to Middle-earth , see UT , p. 393 ; Aulë is the patron of all craftsmen , including ‘ those that make not , but seek only for the understanding of what is ’ — the philologists , one might say , but also the scopas , the ‘ makars ’ , the fabbri , the poets . |
| 9 | The most important duty that I owe you , the reader , is that I be absolutely honest and candid , and therefore , although I have no doubt that the growers will not like me for saying so , I suggest that unless you aspire to the show bench , or base your gardening on taking chances , you should not heed the blandishments but look instead for the shortcomings . |
| 10 | One thing we were both sure of was that we would return in the near future with no carp tackle , but to fish purely for the cats , that is if we can get booked of course . |
| 11 | I certainly do not share the view of Charles Plummer nearly a century ago ( when the fate of Napoleon III was still fresh enough to point an implicit moral ) , that Charles the Bald was " a typical Frenchman in many respects , intellectually clever but caring only for the outward pomp and circumstance of empire without the strength of character to grasp and hold the reality of power " . |
| 12 | There may be some pleasures for which it is worth risking one 's life but to do so for a cigarette is an illustration of the sheer insanity of addictive disease . |
| 13 | There will be two age groupings , 10–13 and 14–18 , both working around the same theme , but coming together for the mass and social . |
| 14 | WILLIAM SHAWCROSS , opposite page , never lived in Vietnam , but went there for The Sunday Times six times between 1972 and 1983 . |
| 15 | She could not keep from the house on the bay but went late for a brief evening swim and , elated with resolution , left soon after dinner . |
| 16 | Anti-matter has been known to exist since the Twenties but making enough for a propulsion unit ( one milligram ) would cost $100bn . |
| 17 | I would also avoid all those bent wire contraptions : they may look attractive in a well photographed catalogue but do little for the design of your garden . |
| 18 | I had no idea of doing anything else but study there for the first three years after school , for which my hardworking and frugal parents had saved enough money . |