Example sentences of "but go [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People decide not to get married but to go ahead and have children anyway . |
| 2 | This rationalism ( I use the word here in a much wider sense than suggested by ‘ rationalism ’ as opposed to ‘ empiricism ’ ) attempts not only to use reason as a tool but to go further and make reason guarantee itself . |
| 3 | His days in Perugia were clearly numbered , and he would spend them like the young magistrate , on a siding running parallel to the main line but going nowhere and ending abruptly . |
| 4 | They will not win the World Cup , but going further than England would be the next best thing . |
| 5 | It is one thing to exclude cases like Ibrams from the defence — the gap of some five days between provocation and killing savours of considered revenge ; it is another thing to exclude defendants with slow-burning temperaments , who do not react straight away to an insult or wrong , but go away and then react after hours of festering anger . |
| 6 | Nothing to do but go upstairs and sleep ; only the lights in the morning room and she could turn those off without entering , just reach around the door . |
| 7 | He did not go in to see his mother , but went upstairs and lay face down on his bed . |
| 8 | ‘ Even though the property market has had its problems and tenants are n't as thick on the ground as normal , a number have looked at CADCAM but gone elsewhere because of the traffic problems , ’ he said . |