Example sentences of "but [vb base] [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But sit him in the cockpit of a Stealth Fighter airplane and he 'll whup anyone 's ass ( it 's the rest of the office 's fault for telling him he looks like tom Cruise ) . |
| 2 | But send them to the bar for a lager shandy and two halves |
| 3 | McAllister had a great chance but put it over the bar . |
| 4 | They want to hear truths which do not make them narrower but broader , which do not obscure but enlighten , which do not run off them like water , but pierce them to the marrow . ’ |
| 5 | Erm , no , not at , at this moment , but catch me at the break , and certainly you can . |
| 6 | As soon as you can see that the embryo is unharmed , do n't touch it ( keep it virgin clean or you may infect it ) , but hold it by the handle and ease the shield shape into the T-shaped cut . |
| 7 | Wexford too had chances to beat them , in the Leinster final and in the replay , but let them off the hook . |
| 8 | But let us for the moment look at the word that signifies the process or action itself : the word kill . |
| 9 | Do n't shrug them off and be embarrassed , but accept them in the way they are intended — with grace and gratitude . |
| 10 | Later abolitionists , most notably Thomas Mathiesen , have argued that only ‘ negative ’ reforms ( changes that may reduce the debit side of the prison 's legitimacy but add nothing to the credit side ) be encouraged . |
| 11 | but give them in the morning cos we 've got to come over in the morning have n't we ? |
| 12 | You do n't see it in the blackness , but feel it on the face . |
| 13 | Alternatively , unplug the telephone but keep it near the socket for emergency use . |
| 14 | O H O H is is a single negative but keep it inside the bracket that 's it and do n't forget the two applies to everything inside there so |
| 15 | But leave him in the evergreen |
| 16 | Gradually take all the weight off one foot but leave it on the board as a back-up . |
| 17 | To which the little girl said : ‘ OK I 'll take it , but leave it on the vine . |
| 18 | Hold special events erm linen sales , bric-a-brac , anything that 's got an appeal to the public , but do it through the window . |
| 19 | ‘ Not in this weather , but thank you for the thought , my dear one . |
| 20 | ‘ No — but thank you for the contact . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ No , but thank you for the offer . |
| 22 | Perhaps it is a distinctive signal which ensures that the parents do not eat the piglets but treat them with the restraint and solicitude due to babies . |
| 23 | A profane woman , on whom he had committed profane acts ; yet he could not help but see her with the child at her breast as holy . |
| 24 | We shall not be a party to that : If Fascism was , as the Communists insisted , simply capitalism with its back to the wall , then it was realistic to see in Chamberlain 's rearmament programme not the promise of defence against German Fascism , but stage one in the construction of British Fascism . |