Example sentences of "but [vb base] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when she had washed her hair and dressed in a new pair of designer jeans and a silk shirt that had been a Christmas present and which she 'd never worn before — it was n't to Eva 's house that she went but back down into the town , towards the theatre and the Franz Joseph . |
| 2 | They must be taught through benevolence and sympathy ; when the necessity arises shame may be used , but fear only in the last extremity , and then ‘ with such delicacy that if possible the habit may not gather strength by the use you are constrained to make of it ’ . |
| 3 | Major Tzann could not help but pick up on the missing contriteness . |
| 4 | Their models have been evolving as circumstances have changed and explain much of what has been happening at the level of the industry , but say little about the behaviour of individual firms . |
| 5 | The opted-out units are no longer under the direct authority of the regional health authorities but report directly to the Secretary of State . |
| 6 | Hyenas , to take another example , hunt in groups for zebra , but hunt singly for the smaller Thomson 's gazelle . |
| 7 | The Teams can assist groups developing and implementing new ideas which will benefit the area , but depend largely on the initiative and drive of local people . |
| 8 | Lectures make less use of the feed-back function of speech but depend heavily on the speech characteristic of needing less explicitness . |
| 9 | The assumptions used in these valuations vary according to local conditions , but depend heavily upon the assumed excess of investment returns over the rate of increase in pensionable pay . |
| 10 | Significantly Fëanor learns not from Manwë , nor Ulmo , but from Aulé , the smith of the Valar and the most similar of them to Melkor ; Aulé too is responsible for the despatch of Saruman to Middle-earth , see UT , p. 393 ; Aulë is the patron of all craftsmen , including ‘ those that make not , but seek only for the understanding of what is ’ — the philologists , one might say , but also the scopas , the ‘ makars ’ , the fabbri , the poets . |
| 11 | It is worth noting that many of the most interesting studies of the language/ethnicity relationship are not quantitative at all , but focus qualitatively on the social meaning which bi- and multi-lingual speakers associate with the codes in their repertoire ( see further 8.3 ) . |
| 12 | Leopard seals , which feed on krill , fish , squid , young seals of other species ( notably crabeaters ) , and penguins and other birds , also occupy the outer edge of the pack ice , but range widely from the cool temperate islands to Antarctica . |
| 13 | The Red Scissortail has a prettily marked and coloured tail , but look also at the attractive scale patterning of the upper body . |
| 14 | We regret the end of our schooldays but look ahead to the future with great hope . |
| 15 | You may object that I 'm only describing the kind of action that occurs in whodunnit stories — but look again at the short fictions that have moved you . |
| 16 | But look carefully at the map and you see that Merida , the peninsula 's largest city and the capital of Yucatan state , lies farther north than Mexico city . |
| 17 | Most popular are precast concrete paviours and slabs , but look around for the more interesting surface textures and designs . |
| 18 | The most important duty that I owe you , the reader , is that I be absolutely honest and candid , and therefore , although I have no doubt that the growers will not like me for saying so , I suggest that unless you aspire to the show bench , or base your gardening on taking chances , you should not heed the blandishments but look instead for the shortcomings . |
| 19 | Sanger duty is particularly boring because there is nothing else to do but look out of the window , and since it is rarely done in pairs social interaction provides no compensation . |
| 20 | NISSAN might not be the marque that springs to mind when it comes to performance hatchbacks , but look out for the nifty little Sunny SR . |
| 21 | Rimsky-Korsakov 's Capriccio Espagnol provides an opportunity for the LSO to display its glittering virtuosity in one of the great orchestral showpieces — although there 's not enough hot Spanish sun here for my taste — and they then round the disc off with Grieg 's Two Elegaic [ sic ] Melodies , which are well enough played , but add little to the overall attractiveness of the disc . |
| 22 | But face down in the middle of the floor there lay the body of a man . |
| 23 | But watch out for the one-handed play of the gifted Gabriel Minadeo and the goalkeeping feats of the high-kicking Emanuel Roggero . |
| 24 | First courses such as asparagus ( choose vinaigrette rather than butter , or better yet , fresh lemon to be squeezed over ) ; oysters ( almost no calories , but watch out for the buttered brown bread ! ) ; soused and smoked fish ( the soused fish — usually herring — is lower in calories than the smoked , but both are fairly light ) ; fish and vegetable terrines ( though usually made with cream , you get very little in a slice ) ; quails ' eggs ( without mayonnaise ) ; and stuffed or marinated vegetables . |
| 25 | One of the best thirst-quenchers is watermelon — but watch out for the pips . |
| 26 | These points are similar to points 2 and 3 ante but vary slightly in the content of the call , e.g. for point 4 examples would include falsely telling a woman her husband was dead or that he is having an affair . |
| 27 | Additional support for this model comes from the observations that the ranges in radiogenic isotopic compositions of the Bultfontein Floors metasomites overlap with those of the contemporaneous host group I kimberlites at Kimberley , but contrast strongly with the older , micaceous group II kimberlites of southern Africa ( which are not known to contain zircons ) , implying geochemical differences between the mantle source rocks of the two groups . |
| 28 | But get out of the way and let me turn him in if you 're not goin' to lead him . ’ |
| 29 | Even within one crop , varieties are often introduced in an attempt to maximise yields , but succeed only at the cost of decreasing soil protection by foliage at times of heaviest rainfall ( David Gibbon , personal communication ) . |
| 30 | These stripes run right down the body , but peter out near the base of the tail . |