Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] but [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have no rational explanation for this but doubt I would derive that same feeling if I was playing for Japan . |
| 2 | Do n't fall for this but draw him out instead by providing openings . |
| 3 | The Mozambican President , Mr Joaquim Chissano , has announced general elections for 1991 but hinted they would be single party only , the Portuguese news agency , Lusa , said yesterday . |
| 4 | Böhme , a 45-year-old historian , joined the former SED at the age of 17 but left it in 1976 in protest at the persecution of intellectuals . |
| 5 | Not that you well you may not be interested in that but y'know it 's there 's plenty of variety as it were yeah |
| 6 | The Hardys left Swanage early in 1876 but visited it again in 1892 , when they attended a meeting of the Dorset Field Club and ‘ were introduced to old Mr B(urt) , ‘ the King of Swanage ’ ’ . |
| 7 | Women prisoners in Armagh had political status until 1975 but lost it in the following year and the numbers in Armagh rose dramatically during the late seventies . |
| 8 | Unlike Richard he was not brought up in Welsh but learnt it as a foreign language . |
| 9 | Perhaps I should start by telling you something I 'll not be talking about and that is the subject of financial resources and how Lynda 's getting on in her discussions with chief secretary , I do n't suppose that comes to you as any surprise but I shall I not be talking on that but let me say that we remain committed strongly to a substantial aid programme which as far as possible is directed towards the poorest countries . |
| 10 | Activists had the job of implicating West Indian proprietors in the public mind with the lack of progress since 1807 but to do it ‘ wisely and prudently ’ by seeking ‘ to second or to remove the impediments out of the way of the free operation of the Jaws which the Creator has fixed in the nature of things ’ . |
| 11 | So she was relieved , but at the same time a little chagrined when he did n't stop the car at all but drove her to the bottom of the footpath that led up to the Hoflin farm . |
| 12 | Either she did n't want to publish it this year , or not at all but wanted her not to go to another publisher all the same . |