Example sentences of "but [prep] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after making this admission we must go deeper into the question . |
| 2 | was a bit drunk one afternoon at about four o'clock and he said , ‘ If it was just an ‘ oul book we could have done something for you but with marrying this foreign woman you 're a hopeless case . ’ |
| 3 | But in reporting this highly selective history of Scotland 's footballing campaigns Hampden Babylon remains loyal to the great myths of the game , and to the undoubted disgust of the Scottish Football Association , places its faith in the anti-authoritarian players who have come to Scotland 's rescue in the past and brightened our mediocrity with a touch of madness . |
| 4 | As examples Mr Denton described the Tyne Metro in favourable terms , and the Docklands Light Railway , but in planning this system some mistakes have been made . |
| 5 | This certainly means that Adam 's heirs can not be alone in having a right to private property , but in saying this , it does not explain how such a right arises in the first place . |
| 6 | But in doing this they do not wield a power which is independent of the class struggle . |
| 7 | But in doing this , we are backtracking into the old dilemma identified by the American philosopher John Dewey ( 1966 ) . |
| 8 | But before leaving this matter of persistence I want to mention a few special cases of persistence on a finer scale . |
| 9 | Pluralism we discuss separately in Chapter 5 , but before concluding this chapter we must briefly refer to the subsequent history of elitism . |
| 10 | From Laxford Bridge , the road heading west , The A.894 , leads to Scourie but before reaching this village , a narrow side road off for Tarbet , a tiny coastal community with a small harbour , normally sleepy and deserted . |
| 11 | We shall look at some of them in the next chapter , but before closing this one it might be pertinent to speculate why it was in St. John 's Gospel , of all places , that we get such stress laid on the Spirit as Paraclete . |
| 12 | We will discuss problems such as these in chapter 8 by using an actual schedule which incorporates examples of mistakes , but before doing this we must also consider the problems which arise from lack of understanding of the question . |
| 13 | In this chapter we propose to deal with the arrangement of passages for various combinations of woodwind and horns , but before doing this we will deal with the question of laying out full chords for the wind . |
| 14 | Finally in despair they turned back for the fleet , but on approaching this , the ships all scattered under the impression that an enemy torpedo raid was coming in . |
| 15 | But since answering this question involves reference to some matters of fact , it is necessary to say something about those facts . |
| 16 | It is of course possible to be an effective manager without coaching but by using this skill you can achieve even better results . |
| 17 | For example , he altered the number of children ( line 41 ) from ten to six , to avoid describing an extreme case of misery ; but by making this alteration he weakened the point of the poem . |
| 18 | But by doing this we have changed the experiment and we had better check whether the result has also altered . |
| 19 | So as a small token of appreciation , I just have two books or two copies of the same book which I would like to hand to your president and to your general secretary as a token of appreciation and it 's the authorized biography of Nelson Mandela of whom we are all very proud , considering what he has suffered through and what he has done and we hope that this little token will be a kind of memento for all your support but by doing this I 'm not saying that your support is over because the struggle continues . |
| 20 | But by harnessing this useful emotion we restrict their sinning to the erotic sphere , and produce a countervailing integrity in their governing . |