Example sentences of "but [verb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But sit him in the cockpit of a Stealth Fighter airplane and he 'll whup anyone 's ass ( it 's the rest of the office 's fault for telling him he looks like tom Cruise ) . |
| 2 | They were dismissed for 118 in only 44 overs but redeemed themselves in the field , cutting an impressive swathe through the Railway Union batting to win by 39 runs . |
| 3 | She had been tricking herself earlier into thinking that he did , that their friendship was nearly as important to him as it was to her , but seeing him in the garden with Marise tonight , and hearing about his marriage , unhappy though it had been , had made her realise that friendship was never as important as passion — at least , she was sure , not to a man . |
| 4 | Mr Kelly , a slater-plasterer ran off but found himself in a dead end . |
| 5 | Sparta disciplined the Phukians , but found herself in a trap . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Su Ragazzi , who are bidding for a league and cup double , beat Jets in straight sets in Sewell 's second game in charge earlier this season but defeated them in the return in Edinburgh . |
| 8 | Perhaps it is too radical and imaginative a suggestion , but has anyone in the local government structure of Suffolk looked beyond their plans to build houses on Ipswich Airport and considered what a fine civil airport for the county either of the two unwanted RAF airfields might make ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | How they used to ask him not to go to their posh prep school , but to meet them in the town . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And finally , the expert again we spoke about that , a good example really is in the computer world where you have individuals who get on really well with computers and programming but put them in a group and they really do n't provide any in fact if anything they take away from the group . |
| 13 | But put it in a Scotch Whisky bottle , and the tax is 19.81p . |
| 14 | I suppose someone could have come from Royston , perhaps leaving after us but passing us in the mist to plan their ambush … ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 17 | Christians gravitated to Ireland not to impose their creed on others , but to immerse themselves in the teachings of the past — and to discover , in the seclusion and peace of the island , their own inner communion with their God , independent of hierarchical priesthoods . |
| 18 | Brussels had a river but buried it in the 19th century when it began to stink . |
| 19 | He did n't put the key in his pocket , but hid it in the plant pot next to the door . |
| 20 | Do n't shrug them off and be embarrassed , but accept them in the way they are intended — with grace and gratitude . |
| 21 | But links them in a bird 's inhuman joy |
| 22 | but give them in the morning cos we 've got to come over in the morning have n't we ? |
| 23 | But facing me in the nets for two winters , he got to know my bowling inside out and by the end of our stay in Cape Town he was hammering me all around the practice area . |
| 24 | That was a plot against Rachel she had never thought of , to take up maths again but to do it in the USA . |
| 25 | ‘ Indoors ? ’ asked Camille , who had again nearly lost her temper completely but retrieved it in the nick of time . |
| 26 | I found artefacts dating back a century and felt that it was important not just to preserve them , but to use them in the education of today 's children . ’ |
| 27 | Fiona and Fergus were making the bed , but doing it in a funny sort of way ; the bottom sheet had been doubled up half-way down the bed . |
| 28 | Escaping is bad enough but doing it in the middle of the night is inexcusable . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Will he find time to consider the plight of my constituent , Mrs. Christine Williamson , who , after 25 years at home nursing a severely disabled child is now able to go back into the labour market , but finds herself in a Catch-22 situation ? |