Example sentences of "but [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to go with the slur of murder still upon him , and always the threat of pursuit and capture ? |
| 2 | British producers have little choice but to go for the home market , because the lion share of their budgets comes from the B B C , I T V or Channel Four who commission the programmes in the first place . |
| 3 | But to go to the other extreme and elevate people suffering from such abnormalities into a norm for society not only threatens society but is dangerous to the individuals themselves , since it excludes them from the consideration of help and treatment . |
| 4 | He had tried to hide his fears from his poor wife and gone down to his warehouse where another message had been awaiting him : he was not to return home , the short letter instructed , but to go to the House of the Crutched Friars where his anxieties would be resolved . |
| 5 | The car 's just a practical thing to me , I mean I like to drive around in comfort , everybody likes a nice car , I 'm not saying that , but to go to the extreme of spending what would say , seventy or eighty thousand pounds on a Porsche , I 'd have to be really , really rich before I would consider the luxury of having a Porsche . |
| 6 | She 'd hated the submarine journey across the North Sea , especially as she was a bit claustrophobic , but stepping over the side into that ridiculous little rubber boat was terrifying . |
| 7 | It was a square , prefabricated building , none too appropriate to the site , but banished to the least obtrusive position , behind the entrance kiosk . |
| 8 | By the time we crossed the Forth , it was early morning , the tide was out , so we did not take the cliff-top path but rode along the beach . |
| 9 | The track does n't go onto the shore , but goes along the top of some low cliffs above the beach . |
| 10 | The habit of using > as inverted commas is irritating , but goes with the general tone of the book . |
| 11 | Take your cue from the tone set by the interviewer but err on the side of formality . |
| 12 | But review by the High Court of decisions of tribunals is a common feature of many other tribunals . |
| 13 | Those of you who saved or remember the ‘ CRAP ’ incident with me and some floozy who supported Sheff Utd but got on the list , will recall that I paid Sheff Utd some compliments … in the form of Hodges , pemberton and Bassett . |
| 14 | He did not reply , but got into the car glumly , with a martyred air . |
| 15 | The name comes from the old Norse word meaning ‘ to gush ’ and was not only given to the township nearby , but got into the English language as a descriptive name for any jet of water . |
| 16 | Tom 's mother was highly critical of the way the mainstream school was handling him but agreed to the assessment because she felt it might help him . |
| 17 | The old Communion plate of Halling was Elizabethan , at least the chalice made in 1569 dated by the hall mark ( M ) , the Paten is of a later date made in 1719 , but given to the church in 1732 . |
| 18 | Overall , the pound depreciated by 6.25 per cent in real terms in the year ended March 1990 , but recovered in the wake of the Gulf crisis , hitting a nine-year high against the US dollar on Aug. 23 ( £1=$1.9515 ) , and rising against the West German currency to over DM3 . |
| 19 | Salvage from sailing ships was an important additional income for the local people , but ceased with the coming of the steamships as they could stand out to sea in a storm . |
| 20 | The poster at the end of the tunnel was so large and so perfectly lit that it seemed to O , looking up at it suddenly , that the tunnel did not end in a wall , in fact did not end at all , but led to the green fields of France . |
| 21 | In the mid-twenties it closed altogether but reopened towards the end of the decade . |
| 22 | Accordingly , I refuse to make the declarations sought in paragraph 1(d) of the originating summons and I will answer the questions raised in paragraphs 2(f) to ( j ) , but limited to the documentation currently used by each of the four plaintiffs , in the affirmative . |
| 23 | We used to visit Toftingall frequently , not only to fish , but to delight in the wide variety of bird life that called the loch home . |
| 24 | But melded with the annoyance was a certain satisfaction that the model graduate chief inspector , whom he thought much too clever and ambitious for her own good , had made a grave error . |
| 25 | A scent like the roots of an oak in autumn , hard , but contaminated with the spores of fungi in the mouldering of ochre leaves that fell , layer upon layer , where branches of the Company still leached its old power to spread ever wider … . |
| 26 | The chief property of poetry is coherence , not of a logical kind , but consisting in the harmonization of conflicting meanings or attitudes ; poetry is objectively characterized , Wimsatt suggested ( 1958 : 236 ) , by a ‘ wholeness of meaning established through internally differentiated form , the reconciliation of diverse parts ’ . |
| 27 | It looks an exquisite mess , but push through the vegetation bordering the path and the undergrowth clears . |
| 28 | Not to give freebies but to invest in the workers of the future . |
| 29 | Alex was made a ward of court but lived with the Demetrious . |
| 30 | The case concerned the wife of a civil servant who worked in Northern Ireland but lived in the Irish Republic . |