Example sentences of "[adv] but [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opening Catholic schools was bad enough but consorting with the head of the Dublin government was entirely beyond the pale for loyalists . |
| 2 | Also offering advice if we felt qualified to do so but referring to the relevant health services or back to her if not . |
| 3 | ‘ How can you be sure it was only one ? ’ the thin man asked doubtfully but clutching at a straw of hope . |
| 4 | It applies also to someone signing a document with the blanks for the particular transaction not filled in but agreeing to , or authorising , another to fill in those blanks later , United Dominions Trust v. Western ( 1975 C.A. ) . |
| 5 | The parent can join in but playing in parallel alongside the child may help the parent not take over what the child is doing . |
| 6 | She said it again , spitting a cat 's venom , a snake 's venom at him , menacing him with claws and teeth and a most glorious savagery , her eyes out of focus perhaps but glittering like jewels , her supple , slender , long-legged body having lost all consciousness of its nakedness , her firm , high , amber-skinned breasts rising in their fury ; doubly enticing . |
| 7 | That evening Shannon steered well clear of Dane , all but tiptoeing around him , determined not to land in any more confrontations . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll get you a paintbrush , ’ she muttered , all but taking to her heels in her haste to get away from those penetrating eyes . |
| 9 | Indeed , he had never looked so awake , all but shivering with awareness . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , the audience were all but collapsing in their seats , as Kenneth danced around like , as he put it , ‘ a demented fairy , asking for a bit ’ . |
| 11 | That means keeping one 's ears and eyes open , it means not looking away but acting as a witness . |
| 12 | An elegant example of this is La Bourgoise d'Orliens , " The townswoman of Orléans " , in which the husband , a merchant , suspecting his wife of having a clerk as a lover ( which she has ) tests her by pretending to go away but returning in the guise of a clerk . |
| 13 | Christ above but working through culture |
| 14 | We will trace in this chapter the significance of the ‘ Christ above but working through culture ’ model in terms of God 's revelation and the Church 's communication task and structural adaptations . |
| 15 | Perhaps not going home but booking into a hotel and |
| 16 | Her hair felt rough and unpleasant to the touch because she was no longer washing it properly but improvising with a kettle of hot water in the kitchen sink . |
| 17 | That 's an area of course that we would wish to increase eventually but looking at the protected figures , a large increase in the primary schools delegated budgets this year could result in , in a de facto cut to the secondary schools next year . |
| 18 | The current screen mode is displayed in the centre of the information bar so it should be simple to keep track of what 's going on but dropping into Attribute mode and spraying colour across pixel boundaries can be very frustrating . |
| 19 | you do n't er insure a building according to its size now but according to the number of people who use it . |
| 20 | Because it is so plain and built entirely of concrete , the car-park effect is instantaneous , yet once get clear of the large struts that support the roof , and this becomes a compelling structure , more stadium than church even now but reassuring to the puritanical visitor after the orgy of nineteenth-century frippery elsewhere in the Cité . |
| 21 | Moore prices undoubtedly suffered from over-heating and have fallen back but looking through our records there is still a consistency again the best works getting the best prices . |
| 22 | Right has the board consider giving this place I mean I I understand the the trouble with money etc but looking at making this place more inviting , at all ? |
| 23 | The TransPennine service , launched a century ago but struggling in recent years , has been turned into one of its flagship operations . |
| 24 | The TransPennine service , launched a century ago but struggling in recent years , has been turned into one of its flagship operations . |
| 25 | That 's the impression I 've been under but according to form you can do what you bloody want . |
| 26 | If members of a conquering nation called upon the nation they had conquered and continued to hold down to forget their specific nationality and position , to ‘ sink national differences ’ and so forth , that was not internationalism , it was nothing else but preaching to them submission to the yoke , and attempting to justify and perpetuate the domination of the conqueror under the cloak of internationalism . |
| 27 | Whatever the reasons for this trend may be , it can not be anything else but discouraging to egalitarians . |