Example sentences of "but [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could lend it to you but got it at the moment you know . |
| 2 | But when the Friend begins to age the Poet would wish to die : Here the motif of giving and receiving love , central to this group , uses the traditional metaphor of exchanging hearts , but reanimates it by the particularity with which the trope is extended . |
| 3 | This situation needs resolution , but to compare it with the rape of Kuwait hardly strengthens your argument against Saddam . |
| 4 | The people took most of the money , but decried it as a decade of greed . |
| 5 | A purpose of Clarkson 's History was thus not only to delineate a common pattern of consciousness but to promote it as a contribution to energising the internal networks of antislavery for future struggles . |
| 6 | How can you change ask , ge get to that , but say it as an open question . |
| 7 | She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod . |
| 8 | It meant that manufacturers no longer needed to seek their power where there was fast-running water , especially in the higher reaches of lonely dales , but found it near the canals which brought coal to them cheaply , or directly upon the coalfields themselves . |
| 9 | To recognize the value present in a situation ( he urges ) is not merely to have an attitude which someone else who conceives the ‘ factual character ’ of the situation in exactly the same way might lack , but to conceive it in a particular kind of way which could not be duplicated in someone not thus drawn to it . |
| 10 | I understood that it was what The Wedding Present wanted , but explaining it to the head of the sales force was a problem . |
| 11 | tendency if you talk about it you 'd be honest but to write it on a form you 'd be |
| 12 | There were , in short , pious men and women who not only failed to find it blasphemous , but regarded it as an integral part of their belief — as integral , say , as Peter 's role is to the Church of Rome . |
| 13 | This book focuses upon 1985 , a mid-way point in the Thatcher years , but places it in the context of the changing reporting which we have studied in the years 1951 , 1961 , 1971 , 1978 as well as 1985 . |
| 14 | The Chinese also evaluated Microsoft Corp Windows NT but dismissed it as an incomplete and immature platform . |
| 15 | De Gaulle had not set out to destroy the EEC , but to remould it in a more appropriate form , where the ‘ ambiguities ’ and ‘ mistakes ’ which he believed to be contained within the Treaty of Rome would be eliminated . |
| 16 | The planned and formulaic rationality of the Enlightenment , according to the critique , is increasingly marked by the familiar , the conventional and by ‘ sameness ’ : a sameness which need not exclude difference , but contains it within the rational , functional and acceptable forms of its own choosing . |
| 17 | He did not in the simplest sense romanticise fact but used it as a way of making his readers see a complex and various world . |
| 18 | This closer relationship incidentally increased the role of the state in most of these economies , but subjected it to the risks inherent in the political strings which the lending institutions attached to their ‘ aid ’ . |
| 19 | McAllister had a great chance but put it over the bar . |
| 20 | But put it in a Scotch Whisky bottle , and the tax is 19.81p . |
| 21 | Not only do you have to fold it with fastidious care to avoid pinching and clouding the plastic rear window , but fitting it in a hurry is simply impossible . |
| 22 | He noted that its heavy brow-ridges gave it an ape-like appearance , but rejected it as a ‘ missing link ’ because of its large capacity . |
| 23 | But because of natural bodies we know not the construction , but seek it from the effects , there lies no demonstration of what the causes be we seek for , but only of what they may be . |
| 24 | As soon as you can see that the embryo is unharmed , do n't touch it ( keep it virgin clean or you may infect it ) , but hold it by the handle and ease the shield shape into the T-shaped cut . |
| 25 | Brussels had a river but buried it in the 19th century when it began to stink . |
| 26 | Not to say , ‘ I ca n't do it or I ca n't remember it ’ , but stop it for a bit and then go back to it , and then you 'll find you 've got it . |
| 27 | Unlike Richard he was not brought up in Welsh but learnt it as a foreign language . |
| 28 | Turner did not live at Wricklemarsh , but let it to a succession of tenants . |
| 29 | He did n't put the key in his pocket , but hid it in the plant pot next to the door . |
| 30 | Commodore 's CDTV also benefits from an association with CD-A but approaches it from the other direction . |