Example sentences of "but [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But seeing what the man will do Unbribed , there 's no occasion to . |
| 2 | The fact that they had been warned off but made it the more attractive . |
| 3 | She resented his tone but told him the real news , Pascoe 's resignation . |
| 4 | As I remember , it went , ‘ Do not heed the siren voices of the appeasers but seek ye the enemy within . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But give me the benefit of the biochemical doubt , for that is perhaps not , except amongst professional biochemists , the most important question . |
| 8 | She no longer kept them in cages but allowed them the run of the house and garden . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One can but guess what the members said ! |
| 12 | Oh , I think the story goes on from there , because I do n't think though and this is a personal opinion and I I 'd love the Committee to I do n't know tha that er I M R O ever did get accounts out of Liechtenstein because a year later B I M the m the ownership of it was transferred from Liechtenstein back to England but guess who the the , the owner was transfer to a charitable trust , so we 've got erm a company that is handling the investment management of seven hundred million pounds worth of pension funds which is owned by a charity and the and the accounts that were given to I M R O and these accounts were given to I M R O a year later , were charity commission er type accounts , which evidently showed something like five hundred thousand pounds in that charitable fund and er and no transactions you know , so and that company that was running that was the beneficial owner of our investment company where all the errors took place . |
| 13 | However insignificant in myself I am the Representative on this question of no mean body in this country who would be … disappointed and chagrined at the suspension of the question — But further — and this is a consideration far more really influential on my Conduct — I can not but feel myself the Representative of a Body who can not speak for themselves and for whom I must act without other guide than my own Conscience . |
| 14 | This interpretation — in essence , that Abdulkerim succeeded Molla Husrev and Molla Arab succeeded Abdulkerim in fact conflicts with Katib Celebi 's first assertion ( which Hezarfen also includes ) but appears none the less to have been adopted , directly or not , by both d'Ohsson and Hammer . |
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| 17 | But chided herself the next moment . |
| 18 | ‘ But ask me the same question tomorrow and I could give a whole litany of things . |
| 19 | The best time to do this is first thing in the morning , after going to the bathroom , wearing your night clothes or nothing at all , but keep it the same every day . |
| 20 | I but saw him the once , and yet can not bear for him to despise me so . |
| 21 | Eliot 's vision of the urbane savage was very different from Arnold 's , but gave him the same privileges as his Romantic predecessor . |
| 22 | He was then attacked by James , but gave him the same treatment . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Or is part of it missing so that you trust what you know but wonder what the rest is like ? |
| 27 | But to ascertain what the Algerian people wanted and what the French people would accept was bound to be a gradual process . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Takahashi is one of those people I loved on sight , or with whom I just wanted to go to bed , but denied myself the opportunity , thus leaving them forever desirable in my memory . |
| 30 | The–e be put with their mother into the greenhouse , but visiting them the next day found that only five chicks still had legs . |