Example sentences of "but [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing for it but to go back the way you came , to Neu St Johann , thence down the Toggenburg valley through the resorts of Nesslau and Ebnat-Kappel to Wattwil . |
| 2 | Irvine had been killed , not preparing for a piss but to carry out the same amorous duties I had . |
| 3 | However , Bott 's aim was not to test well-defined hypotheses , but to carry out an intensive exploratory study of a small number of families , with the idea of furthering psychological and sociological understanding of urban family life . |
| 4 | The object is not to create damage and disorder per se , but to carry out an act which is guaranteed to enrage the victim without doing what he thinks you are doing , i.e. stealing his machine . |
| 5 | Richards trailed 13–5 after ends but wiped out the deficit on end 11 . |
| 6 | Forster was sorely tempted to nip out and confirm that the noise was coming from George by twiddling the volume and tuner , but fought down the urge . |
| 7 | A few seconds later the pipes are assembled and I enter the town playing Highland Laddie , not at the front of the column , but bringing up the rear . |
| 8 | Today we can talk about sex without modesty or fear , but bring up the subject of death and you will be treated with the same social horror as if you had brought up the subject of masturbation at a Victorian ladies ' tea party . |
| 9 | The meeting voted for a revision of the Constitution to allow the head of state to appoint a Prime Minister but ruled out the introduction of a multiparty system . |
| 10 | A curious mix of tried-and-tested subgames that look pretty damn poor on their own , but make up a reasonably playable package . |
| 11 | There may be two bystanders , but they really , you do n't think they made any particular difference to the way the conversation went , so you might pick out relationships in general , or topic , or something else , but pick out the things that you think being significant in the conversation , and describe them . |
| 12 | As for the Gascons , they are gossipy , licentious , and poorly dressed ; although they eat and drink far too much they do n't sit at table but squat around a fire ; they all share the same cup and when they go to sleep they all share the same rotting straw , master and mistress , servants and all . |
| 13 | Julia Swift , author of 12 Steps To Beautiful Breasts ( Thorsons ) , replied : ‘ Breasts are just fatty tissue , but toning up the muscles which lie underneath and around does improve a profile . |
| 14 | By the beginning of the third week , Charlie could only just fit his swollen toes into the heavy leather boots the army had supplied him with , but looking down the rows of feet that adorned the barrack room floor each morning he could see that none of his comrades was any better off . |
| 15 | He ignored Sir Ralph 's corpse but lifted back the insignia over the hospitaller 's and the canvas sheet which lay underneath . |
| 16 | Do not use butter , creams or lotions , but put on a clean dressing instead . |
| 17 | We moan a great deal about bad for contemporary music , but put on a big new Stockhausen piece in London and the likelihood is that you will fill that hall , provided you prepare it . |
| 18 | Hornet 's Richard Wolfenden points out that the company has not been liquidated but put on the back burner until production can be resumed abroad with lower costs and overheads . |
| 19 | Teddington had to give up Laslett and Barker to England but put up a spirited performance against the national side . |
| 20 | 67-year-old , took early retirement from engineers seven years ago , but came back a year later to become the head office caretaker . |
| 21 | There is no need to over-play the slightly pathetic quality but seek out the eagerness of his search for something to do . |
| 22 | Fashion garments may and do cost a great deal , but break down the component parts of that price and the sum paid for the natural fibre fabrics begins to look a little odd . |
| 23 | He was almost certain that he had found him , that he could say , ‘ Our McCloy was here , ’ and yet what had he achieved but dredge up a tiny segment of McCloy 's life ? |
| 24 | The brief descriptions of the récit and the first entrée ( shown in their entirety in illus.l ) suggest that the opening numbers of the ballet served not only to introduce the subject of the work , but to set up a mechanism for getting the musicians on stage . |
| 25 | ‘ We are aware there is a degree of anxiety among the public and so we have taken steps not only to contact those people concerned but to set up a helpline so any member of the public can ring in and have private counselling . ’ |
| 26 | But equally there is the option of differentiation , which is about setting oneself apart from the norm , not simply to criticize and condemn it but to set up an alternative and different model . |
| 27 | The people there not only had to cope with the incidents themselves but living down the bad reputation . |
| 28 | Conservative Members did not wait to find out whether people would vote for that courage and conviction , but bundled out the then Prime Minister , the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) pretty quickly once they had had the encouragement of a Liberal Democrat by-election win and the exposure of the divisions by the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East . |
| 29 | This whole thing of the bride being , well often not , but frogmarched down the aisle and being transferred from being her father 's property to being her husband 's property |
| 30 | But turning over the pages of poor Hewlett 's unreadable but honest ‘ Song of the Plough ’ , one wonders about that . |