Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [be] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Unfortunately , his personal secretary said she did not think he could become actively involved , but I am writing to the Prime Minister Mr Major and George Howard , the Environment Secretary , seeking their support . ’ |
| 2 | The full vessels are left on the empty shore , they are for use but I am carried to the river in your arms , and I dance to the rhythms of your heart-throbs and heaving of the waves . |
| 3 | ‘ But I was born to the sword . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I used to do women 's programmes but I was moved to the God slot . |
| 5 | But I was taken to the vault before a concert in the church . |
| 6 | ‘ People were literally running for their lives but I was rooted to the spot . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I was in the DEMS , which is actually the Royal Navy , but you 're loaned to the Merchant Navy to man the guns for them . |
| 8 | But she 's coming to the |
| 9 | She believes that there is nothing worse than marry without any affection but on the other hand it would be very absurd Lady Bertram points out to Fanny that it is every woman 's duty to marry a rich man but she is blinded to the fact that this is not the only improvement that can take place in a marriage . |
| 10 | She tried to stand up , but she was tied to the chair at her wrists and ankles . |
| 11 | USAF officials originally placed her at Edwards AFB but she was moved to the nearby March facility for restoration and display . |
| 12 | But we were driving to the ice-cap anyway and needed to reach the peaks by nightfall . |
| 13 | One Friday lunchtime we learned that there were no more classes that day but we were confined to the Grand till evening . |
| 14 | Dacourt also was provided with his own chamber but we were taken to the top of the palace . |
| 15 | ‘ British fishermen are beginning to use lines rather than nets , but they are selling to the Continent because they 'd be daft not to . |
| 16 | Some German vineyards can be found in more northerly locations , but they are subjected to the greater continental influence of colder winters and hotter summers . |
| 17 | The movies were ‘ for the millions ’ but they were given to the millions by showmen . |
| 18 | But he 's getting to the point where I 'm ready for saying to him away you go down to your granny 's right , but my mam can nae live with him either . |
| 19 | ‘ Andy Gregory has been a brilliant scrum-half , but he 's coming to the end of his career and can only be a short-term buy for Doug Laughton at Leeds . |
| 20 | Oh he was on the river he he was always connected with the river my father and in the First World War they towed the dredger from here to Ramsgate and er he was , he was in the Army but he was connected to the Inland Water Transport and cos they were dredging out the harbour at Ramsgate . |
| 21 | Nothing is known of his education , but he was returned to the Parliament of 1539 for an unknown constituency , possibly at a by-election during the shrievalty of his father , himself a knight of the shire for Surrey . |
| 22 | In east Germany and Prussia , for example , the peasant was not quite so poor as elsewhere , but he was disciplined to the estate by legal devices which seem to have been as powerful a stimulus to rural emigration as poverty . |
| 23 | Yeah , the hands , no structure , did you notice he hardly ever looked at the magistrate , although yeah his voice projection was still good because he 's an experienced advocate , but he was talking to the table nearly the whole time . |
| 24 | But it is mistaken to the point of being morally grotesque to argue that , before we can decide whether human slaves should be liberated , we first need to count everyone 's interests , both slaves ’ and slave owners ' alike , and count equal interests equally . |
| 25 | But it is tied to the capitalist social order and therefore it can not strategically deal with the causes of discrimination ( this is as true of discrimination against women , against black people , against those with disabilities ) . |
| 26 | We may reasonably think that the vase-picture of the Underworld does bring us really close to the composition of a lost wall-painting , but it is adapted to the small , curved surface of a pot ( though , being a calyx-krater , the curve is only horizontal , and it does retain some of the character of a wall ) , and there are other important differences , in particular the nature of the red-figure technique . |
| 27 | A disc with a genuine de Reszke label is known , but it is attached to the wrong record ! |
| 28 | Yet I did not want to leave things alone entirely , without making an effort , but it is restricted to the expression of two things — the cypresses — the olive trees — let others who are better and more powerful than I reveal their symbolic language … |
| 29 | ‘ But it 's gotten to the point where if a song is not real predictable radio fare then it 's regarded as left-field . |
| 30 | The dragon looks fearsome , but it 's rooted to the spot and not very intelligent , so does n't present much of a problem . |