Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] but [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , the composition of authorities reinforced conflicts of loyalties : many members did not feel accountable to the RHA who appointed them but to local constituencies . |
| 2 | It offended nobody but like most policies which achieve that result , it did not greatly please anyone either . |
| 3 | It was a song or a poem — I do n't know which but to my knowledge it has never been published — which was called ‘ Beautiful Angie ’ , and I clicked immediately and realised there had been another woman about the house . |
| 4 | I verily believe the Squire would have come himself but since your departure he has been sick abed . |
| 5 | After reading Jones I still do n't know him but at least begin to recognise the sort of person he was . |
| 6 | That did n't happen , but Hirst did set up one of the great matches of the season — and he would have won it but for a superb Peter Schmeichel save at 3-2 . |
| 7 | I 'm sure he 'd enjoy it but with us all upstairs he 'd have to go downstairs on his own , and he 's not pushy like our Terry and Stephen . ’ |
| 8 | You can spend quite a lot of time subsequently getting the machine configured just as you want it but at least you can relax in the knowledge that it all works and the difficult part of the upgrade is well and truly over . |
| 9 | The rise and fall of families depended not only on the circumstances in which people found themselves but upon individual character and temperament . |
| 10 | The elements it contained ‘ helped us but in the end our approach is driven by our own particular view focused by the firm 's strategic plan ’ , said Mulvie . |
| 11 | In contrast to Van Helmont 's confusion of the two books , Boyle distinguished them but without setting them in opposition . |
| 12 | Indeed , a popular view amongst community relations police in the area is that many more schools would welcome them but for intimidation , a factor which the community relations police have to be very sensitive towards if they are not to threaten the safety of children and teachers . |
| 13 | But you ignored them but in the end we we had to something abo about it . |
| 14 | I have done nothing but in care of thee , |
| 15 | We tried to rouse him but to no effect . |
| 16 | Paradox defies logic , yet not by dismissing it but by teasing us to think wider and deeper and extend our horizons and challenge our starting-points . |
| 17 | It was struck not at the weak man who suffered it but at the strong God who was the man 's master . |
| 18 | I passed my June copy to a friend who lives in Norfolk feeling sure I would be able to replace it but without success , and I was away on holiday for the August copy . |
| 19 | Oh erm let me slow down this bit , erm no it 's twen , oh it is twenty six ninety nine anywhere else , I 've seen it but in Argos , Wi , well William looked in the catalogue on Tuesday for me , but he said it was nineteen ninety nine in Argos |
| 20 | Tried to cross the nighted ferry ; might 've made it but for a district-nurse calling unexpectedly . ’ |
| 21 | The county might have made it but for a dislocated shoulder suffered by second string Barry Hutchinson ( Stockton Racecourse ) . |
| 22 | I 'd made it but by the skin of my teeth . |
| 23 | ‘ I know all the hype will surround myself but to me it 's about the Rovers lads who have got us where we are . ’ |
| 24 | True , there was a mixed Italian and German team climbing not far away , heading for the Traverse of the Gods ; he could see them but for some reason they could n't see him . |
| 25 | Some major city spaces become foci for activity generated not by buildings surrounding them but by their special sense of identity ( good examples are the Piazza San Marco in Venice and indeed the space in front of our own National Gallery ) . |
| 26 | Some attempts were made to raise an interest in preserving her but without success and eventually she was towed to the breakers yard at Bo'Ness in July 1977 and broken up . |
| 27 | From forcing her , by an act of love , to follow him through the world , not barefoot as she 'd accused him but in no great luxury , instead of " obliging " the man who had given her her chance . |
| 28 | she 's had her chance and I 'm doing all I can to help her but at the end of the day it 's on her shoulders . |
| 29 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
| 30 | Which I really I went to Amos and I did n't like it but of course I had to stick it . |