Example sentences of "[pron] but [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a man 's responsibility to educate himself but also to educate his wife and children . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't think it 's owt but just to prevent my |
| 3 | to you But never nip your bum . |
| 4 | A mother 's task is thus not to create something out of nothing but rather to dovetail her behaviour to that of the infant 's . [ … ] |
| 5 | One shot brought a barrage of answering cross-fire that burned angrily around them but just like he 'd planned , Ember and Jezrael had separated . |
| 6 | We do not try to motivate them but simply gather them together for ease of reference . |
| 7 | He never drank them but always brought them home with him to add to the array in the cellar . |
| 8 | If you do n't know anything about computers , just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result . |
| 9 | The second point is that the staff and the community , with the support of the Labour group and now the Democrats , have finally got a compromise solution which may not give them everything but again gives them what is achievable within the political complexion of this council and they must now accept that there is an onus upon them to make it work and thirdly we have got to make sure that the staffing arrangements that are referred to in here and I quote there there 'd be posts for each centre who will be expected to add each with staff teams to coordinate the delivery of services by the two centres . |
| 10 | ‘ I have heard of him but never met him . ’ |
| 11 | The father of one of the young children who is about to receive First Holy Communion told me that he did n't practise any faith because it bored him but still wanted his child to receive Holy Communion . |
| 12 | He did not contradict her but just said nothing and so she felt that this was criticism of her handling of the problem . |
| 13 | The fact that Harry Martin had seen fit to go this far not only alarmed her but also made her realise that she must be on to something . |
| 14 | Fen did n't even bother to look at her but instead busied himself pulling curtains across the cabin windows . |
| 15 | Each set of social practices not only determines the characteristics of the individuals who engage in it but also supplies them with a conception of the range of properties they can have , and of its limits . |
| 16 | In 1928 William Robson published Justice and Administrative Law , a landmark text which he later described as an attempt ‘ to dispel the illusion held by all the leading lawyers , politicians , civil servants and academics who had been brought up on Dicey 's Law of the Constitution that in Britain there was no administrative law ’ In this book Robson argued that ‘ no modern student of law or political science has today the slightest doubt that there exists in England a vast body of administrative law ’ and that ‘ the problem is not to discover it but rather to master its widespread ramifications and reduce it to some kind of order and coherence ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ I have it on good authority that when Satan left , Christ did it but then changed them back to show he would not be tempted to eat . |
| 18 | Julius followed her , not saying anything but just watching her , until his intense gaze began to grate on her nerves even more badly than the approaching storm . |
| 19 | As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera . |
| 20 | If we do it correctly , the horse learns not only to be confident with us and to respect us but also to like us . |