Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] but [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dissolves can also be edited in but require the use of rather more sophisticated equipment than for simple fades . |
| 2 | The author of what I later discovered to be a scholarly , if tendentious , account of us foreign policy since Korea , he expressed a fastidious regret for the instruments America had to work through but justified the excesses of the client governments by reference to the worse alternative of Marxist dictatorship . |
| 3 | Pine trees somewhere in the foreground , open enough to see through but framing the picture . |
| 4 | Six fighters then passed over but made no attempt to strafe . |
| 5 | Pluto showed up but made no contact . |
| 6 | Learn from them the strength to risk to say no to the disease : refuse to cover up , tidy up or pay up but allow the sufferer to take the full consequences of the addiction . |
| 7 | Admits commuters are dropping out but blames the recession . |
| 8 | Seven Hurricanes were sent off but made no contact . |
| 9 | A room that British civil servants moan about but defend the way New Yorkers do New York because it shows how unique they are in coping so splendidly in such surroundings . |
| 10 | He did not bother to look up when Corbett and Ranulf were ushered in but made a gesture for them to sit on the bench alongside the table while he continued noisily with his meal . |