Example sentences of "[verb] but [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We shouted but what with the noise of the water and not knowing their language of course it was n't any use and then we were in the water . |
| 2 | Thus to honour the first of the Roman emperors an orderly arrangement was reduced to an illogical jumble that many people find difficult to remember but which in the course of 2,000 years has been successfully imposed on most of the world . |
| 3 | Steady on — 3% will do But what about the egg on our faces afterwards ? |
| 4 | In terms of arguments about the Caucasian Albanians , a people which no longer exists but which in the Middle Ages inhabited the disputed region . |
| 5 | Of course there 's I do n't know whether you 'd well you wo n't if you have n't been involved but we for the last last year and this year we 've had this children from er there 's a a sort of Nottingham University |
| 6 | Aye , she does n't bother but us in the next room , ah , bother us . |
| 7 | In consultation with colleges in 1989 , we planned the changeover to the new system over three years and three batches , providing , we hoped , a timetable which was not too rushed but which at the same time allowed centres to progress at a pace which met their candidates ' needs . |
| 8 | This means that the process of totalization must be kept moving by the critical investigation itself on which it comes to depend but which by the same token it can never subsume . |