Example sentences of "but [verb] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was now fearful about returning to school , but agreed to discuss this with her tutor . |
| 2 | The Daily Mail has entered into the OTC market 's spirit of enterprise , but has qualified this with constant awful warnings about licensed dealers and their stocks . |
| 3 | The Government would like to privatise tracks as well , but has put this off until some point in the future . |
| 4 | The Mourne boss is determined that his side will make up for their semi-final defeat by Derry last year but refuses to embrace this as an additional spur in his motivating process . |
| 5 | But beware playing this with Really Nasty addicts — they will probably take advantage of your Christmas hangover to win huge bets . |
| 6 | It includes much that is central to the accepted body of the sociology of crime and deviance , but aims to introduce this material in an easily accessible form . |
| 7 | He says he would n't have liked to have been told an incinerator was being built at the bottom of his garden , but having seen this one , he 'd be reassured . |
| 8 | Being shackled to one epoch meant it had to change and adapt but try to reconcile this with harsh realities . |
| 9 | Many teenagers today would live in their trainers , given half a chance , but try to discourage this . |
| 10 | Alternatively a pupil might know that the height of most adults is between five and six feet but fail to apply this knowledge to estimates of other lengths or heights . |
| 11 | He even tried sneaking back to the library at night , thinking the Bookman might appear after dark , but had to stop this when he backed into Mr Crangle , who was up to the same thing . |
| 12 | Neil refused most of these invitations , but had accepted this last one — the temptation to indulge himself , since he had stopped his midnight drinking , was suddenly great . |
| 13 | ‘ I said to the grave digger , in conversation with him , ‘ Look , are you in the right plot ? ’ and his answer was the priest told him to dig the grave opposite Patrick 's but when he came along he 'd seen there was already a burial there , who was the sister Annie , but had seen this vacant plot next door , so he had dug the vacant one . |
| 14 | When in February 1983 the General synod of the Church of England debated the nuclear threat , only the then Archbishop of York , Dr Blanch , thought fit to remind his hearers that the early church had not only held that the world would soon end , but had regarded this as a desirable consummation . |
| 15 | The Library of Congress , for instance , started with the term ‘ Electronic calculating machines ’ but had to modify this , in keeping with later normal usage , to ‘ Computers ’ . |
| 16 | I shall be away until January 11th , but need to process this information IMMEDIATELY I get back , so please , please , please have it waiting on my doorstep . |
| 17 | ( Thus Auer complains of Gumperz that " sometimes he makes strong claims about the effect of a given type or instance of code switching on the subsequent development of the sequence , which are based on informants ' reports , but fails to reproduce this subsequent passage " ( Auer 1984b : 106 , fn. 10 ) . ) |