Example sentences of "but [verb] out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irvine had been killed , not preparing for a piss but to carry out the same amorous duties I had . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Richards trailed 13–5 after ends but wiped out the deficit on end 11 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There is no need to over-play the slightly pathetic quality but seek out the eagerness of his search for something to do . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One of the attendants offered him a cup : he did not drink from this but threw out the contents and ran off with it . |
| 10 | She had not gone back to whoring , but eked out a miserable living as a washerwoman , for which she lacked the stamina . |
| 11 | But get out the Union Jack and wave it frantically — there are some real gems now being released by UK companies Kosmos , School Software of Ireland , Europress ( with their latest Fun School products , Paint&Create , and Spelling Fair ) and from the Scottish software house , Lander . |
| 12 | People receiving these words in a mood of sorrow , therefore , have little option but to shut out the emotionally distressing pictures that the words seem to convey . |
| 13 | In the judgement ( Jerusalem Chamber I February 1954 ) the Chancellor mostly backed bishop and vicar ; but ordered out the statue and the sanctuary bells and the tabernacle on the altar , saying that what was illegal could not be made legal by the bishop 's permission . |
| 14 | Here the Crick hypothesis has an advantage over the others , in that he proposes that those mysterious extraterrestrials did not simply scatter spores willy-nilly but sent out a computer-controlled spacecraft containing the spores as cargo . |
| 15 | She opened her mouth , but spat out the sweet and sour liquid which splashed on to her tongue . |
| 16 | Chess pieces scattered from the board , but blinked out the instant they dropped below the level it was on , as though falling beneath some invisible beam . |
| 17 | He continued to develop his invention but took out no patent and freely explained the operation of the tower to visitors . |
| 18 | She did n't wait for a reply , but spelled out the answer herself . |
| 19 | Primary earnings under F R S Three including everything down twenty one percent , but taking out the non-operating items , that 's the erm fixed assets , er profit sales on the one hand and the old extraordinaries on the other , and you have I think a more meaningful guide to our performance a reduction in any nine percent . |
| 20 | It was one thing to have turned his own country into an ‘ underdeveloping ’ society , but to seek out the company of the other basket-cases of the world economy was to add gratuitous insult to already grave injury in the minds of most Romanians . |
| 21 | The delegates do not act in their personal capacity but carry out the policies and instructions of their government , as shown by the provision that an alternate delegate can be empowered to act and vote on behalf of a delegate who is absent . |
| 22 | The balance sheet does not relate to a period but sets out the book values of the assets , liabilities and capital as at a particular point in time . |
| 23 | Grannell was placed in a police car but kicked out the rear window causing £150 damage . |
| 24 | Many of the smaller farmers continued to live therefore in the ancestral homestead on the village street , but carried out no repairs to it and gradually allowed it to decay . |
| 25 | Murphy and Taggart led for much of the way but missed out a loop section of the route which cost them 30 marks and they dropped back . |
| 26 | OUTLOOK takes the format of a style magazine but leaves out the hype and trivia . |
| 27 | Mr Bensley felt it was too early to link the incidents — but pointed out the disturbing pattern of attempts by youths in stolen cars to lure police patrol cars into ambushes . |