Example sentences of "[pron] but [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as Jesus did not draw attention to himself but set out to glorify his Father by passing on the Father s message to men ( 8:28 , 1 2:28,1 7:4 ) , so the Paraclete will not speak on his own authority … but will take what is mine and declare it to you' ( 16 : 14 ) . |
| 2 | The idea , according to one report , was for the capital 's defenders to surrender their arms to the UN , for the Serbs to keep theirs but to pull back from the city , and for the UN to create a ‘ security belt ’ between . |
| 3 | But you may not actually learn much , simply because the main object of the group will not be to help you but to get on and do the play , relying on the skills available and hoping that the audience will give adequate support . |
| 4 | He glanced at me but carried on splashing water into the sink and clattering plates . |
| 5 | By now G. is no longer suspicious of me but turns out to be a lively , talkative , and intelligent man . |
| 6 | Tessel said nothing but looked down at them with contempt . |
| 7 | Constance said nothing but walked back into the kitchen , where she lifted the lid off the soup and stood staring at it . |
| 8 | She said nothing but put out her hand and took the envelope . |
| 9 | She said nothing but went out and straight upstairs to her room . |
| 10 | And my job is not actually to punish them but to reflect back to them what they 're doing . |
| 11 | They took a peek , and then did everything but lay down and wag their tails . |
| 12 | She quickly changed her position , so that she was no longer facing him but looking out towards the lake . |
| 13 | When Lawrence spoke to him , the tall , white-faced youth did not look to see who was addressing him but strode on , chin high . |
| 14 | Did n't Cloughie get done for doing something similar a few years ago when he chinned the Forest fan who 'd run on the pitch ( later kissed him but brought out one of the all-time commentators classics from Greavesie when he said ‘ It was the first time the shit really had hit the fan ’ ) . |
| 15 | He tried to follow her but fell over her bike . |
| 16 | If , however , you find yourself carrying three or four such problems it seems clear that there is nothing for it but to go back and attack the first difficulties again . |
| 17 | Nothing for it but to go back the way you came , to Neu St Johann , thence down the Toggenburg valley through the resorts of Nesslau and Ebnat-Kappel to Wattwil . |
| 18 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |
| 19 | But equally there is the option of differentiation , which is about setting oneself apart from the norm , not simply to criticize and condemn it but to set up an alternative and different model . |
| 20 | The circulation of air round a depression usually has ‘ fronts ’ or areas of rain associated with it , and when birds , which navigate by being able to see the night sky , meet with a barrier of rain and bad visibility then there is nothing for it but to drop down to the nearest land and wait until conditions improve . |
| 21 | Most of them did nothing about it but hurried on , some scowling , one , a child , making a face at the camera , holding up his hands as if they were big ears and waggling his fingers . |
| 22 | So it is important not to drift into caring or be hustled into it but to think through personal motives tor taking it on . |
| 23 | They had nothing for it but to crawl back to Mr Scully and to pay Mike Channon 's cancellation fee ( £353 ) out of their own pockets . |
| 24 | Men who had been asleep and were woken up by the noise did not appear to resent it but sat up on one elbow and stared . |
| 25 | As he said no more there was nothing for it but to walk on . |
| 26 | ‘ Though I may say that I shall be getting twenty-five guineas next Thursday for doing nothing but sit around in a television studio for half-an-hour , instead of beating my brains out all week-end to write a script for the BBC Overseas Service and getting ten guineas for it . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm tired of reading and hearing about bands who do nothing but slag off their first record , and blame the producer for not getting it right . |
| 28 | When a heatwave occurs — unless we are fortunate enough to be able to do nothing but laze around — many people become increasingly bad-tempered . |
| 29 | She could do nothing but batten down the conversational hatches and wait until the storm blew itself out . |
| 30 | She 'd done nothing but lie back , and allow Kattina to make love to her . |