Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb -s] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she uses at night and |
| 2 | it 's an old , old house but she says at the top of the house |
| 3 | He never talks to her at the table — but she stares at him strangely sometimes . |
| 4 | But she bridles at suggestions that the inclusion of two women — Mrs Gillian Shephard at the Department of Employment and herself — has excluded more able men from the Cabinet . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , but he stays at home and never sees anybody , Mr Holmes ! ’ answered Helen Stoner . |
| 6 | But he gets at you . |
| 7 | Raymond and I no longer share a bed , but he wakes at the slightest noise . ’ |
| 8 | But he grins at me . |
| 9 | Everything seems to have gone wrong for poor old Gooch since his marriage broke up , culminating in that bizarre dismissal on Monday , but he does at least have one big advantage over the other members of the trio . |
| 10 | Ceauŝescu may not be the most benevolent of rulers but he has at least kept his country outside the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | I 'd rather him not travel it , I 'd rather him stop here on Sunday and not come home so that he 's got ample rest , cos he 's not getting it I , I , I du n no , I , I might be wrong , but he moans at me cos I knock me |
| 12 | He reveres Tagore as the great modern writer of Bengal , but he looks at him disrespectfully , as if he was applying a Brechtian alienation-effect on him . |
| 13 | The policeman knows OK and tells me , but he looks at me funny all the time . |
| 14 | But he looks at it . |
| 15 | I 've seen him looking at you … but he looks at women that way . |
| 16 | he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins . |
| 17 | Romantic poets such as Novalis and Arndt gave expression to this idea and made it famous , but it dates at least from Leibniz 's great political tract , Caesarinus Furstenerius ( De Supremum Principum Germaniae ) written in 1677 which called for the unification of Christendom and , thus , of Germany . |
| 18 | Systems theory is a useful way of identifying complex entities , particularly those which have a functional unity and of talking about relationships but it remains at some level of abstraction from reality . |
| 19 | This had been expected to rise to £77,400 , but it remains at £75,000 . |
| 20 | There are of course endless problems for the analyst who wishes to use the concept of the collective consciousness but it does at least involve an attempt to locate the basis of meaning in a social context . |
| 21 | But it does at least help in seeing why debates among Realists , Pluralists , and Structuralists in International Relations are so hard to umpire . |
| 22 | But it does at least prompt the question whether the suppression in them , not now of individuality but of individual interest in the sense of ownership , is only likely to be volunteered where the amount of that interest is seen by the prospective volunteer as marginal to his other interests , concerns and obligations . |
| 23 | To a certain extent the pamphlet states the obvious , but it does at least focus thinking in a formal manner to the issue of 1992 . |
| 24 | There is an alternative route which is longer and involves slightly more climbing , but it stays at a lower level , never rising higher than 1,600ft . |
| 25 | If we believe in the idea that the most economical hypothesis is the best , then Daly should win , but it seems at present as though the evidence in favour of the subsidence theory , with its ad hoc lowerings of islands , is considerably greater than that for the Glacial Control theory . |
| 26 | The classification of this category is not free from difficulty but it includes at least a common law lien and a lien arising by operation of law . |
| 27 | It is unusual to have an autumn statement in the middle of a debate on the Queen 's Speech , but it has at least given us an opportunity to test the veracity of the promises that have been made . |
| 28 | All this may strike us as very patronising but it reveals at least as much concern about the welfare , and rehabilitation , of prisoners as the incarceration policies of the present day . |
| 29 | But Blackheath administrator Alun Davies said : ‘ The knee is coming on fine but it needs at least another couple of weeks rehabilitation . |
| 30 | It 's a very funny joke , but it works at the expense of treating her like a child , which is not at all what the novel usually intends . |