Example sentences of "but [verb] [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once they had turned the Mount , with the full span of the ice shining before them , the two men gathered pace , at once in harmony and contention , drawing vigour from the presence of the young woman between them , who cried out , not in fear but encouraging them on to greater exertions . |
| 2 | By February 1916 pressure was mounting again , and resolutions calling for compulsory national service were flowing in ; the Executive refused to debate them , but passed them on to Law nevertheless . |
| 3 | He admitted that they were from Camilla but passed them off as a simple gesture of friendship . |
| 4 | but sit it out |
| 5 | On no occasion did Pointer seem bemused or in doubt but led us on , disregarding the ankle-deep snow and the sudden flurries and falls from over-hanging branches . |
| 6 | This compromise incorporates two tiers of tariffs which are likely to reduce marginally the price of British bananas but push them up for the Germans . |
| 7 | I mean he 's come out over the top of his own defenders and i over big Ormanroyd and he can do little else but push it back down into the pack . |
| 8 | But using them in exactly the way suggested will increase your skills . |
| 9 | The other three departments keep most information in hard copy but back it up with a small use of online services . |
| 10 | It reminded her of Hilda , and she felt a wave of panic , but fought it down . |
| 11 | Jessica was tempted to be obscene , but fought it back . |
| 12 | The Church should not be helping him up , but helping him over : false optimism does not need a helping hand ; it needs firstly the truth , and secondly love to salve the lost illusions and move on to a fuller humanity ( Walker 1986 : 214 ) . |
| 13 | Yeah , but made my in for a tea . |
| 14 | But made it up pretty quickly afterwards . |
| 15 | others of the 105 Squadron Blenheims were less fortunate — Z7486 ( Sgts Mackillop , Nethercott and Entwistle ) were shot down and crashed into a factory ; Z7486 ( F/O Lambert , Sgts Copeland and Charles ) was hit by flak and last seen in flames heading further inland ; V7484 ( Sgts Jackson , Williams and Purves ) was also hit by flak but made it back to Swanton for a belly-landing . |
| 16 | A lioness , having caught a gazelle , may not kill it but drag it back alive to her cubs and give it to them so that , crippled though it is , the cubs may have a little practice in how to bring it down . |
| 17 | Any other allocation , e.g. an equal one at and would be inferior in that the move to and would lose of utility for but raise it by for , offering a raised total to the extent of trapezoid 3456 where = by construction . |
| 18 | " Find them , " he told Desimir , " buy them for slaves , trick them or kidnap them , but bring them back somehow so that we can bury them under the great gate and build our city of Skadar . " |
| 19 | I du n no who you were gon na make it out to but make it out |
| 20 | ‘ But many years ago , a wise old man said fall in love and you may fall flat on your face , but pick yourself up and rush towards the next one , knees bleeding , face bruised , arms open , heart on fire . ’ |
| 21 | Audiences can not help but cheer him on . |
| 22 | This seems to be because of the small size of the owl in relation to its prey , so that it can not swallow the prey whole but tears it up as do the diurnal raptors ( see Appendix for details of little owl biology ) . |
| 23 | But wants you out Trev , he might burst a . |
| 24 | She found she had torn most of the mourning band away from her sleeve and there was nothing for it but to pull it off entirely . |
| 25 | Harper has admitted lighting tufts of straw to see inside the barn , but put them out immediately . |
| 26 | I picked up a book , but put it down again and began looking at a tiny red spider on the leaf of a geranium , ad lost count of time . |
| 27 | He had felt the same , momentarily , stepping into the dyeyard at Nicosia , but put it down to a foolish nostalgia . |
| 28 | But put it down , they get some marks . |
| 29 | She withdrew her finger when told but put it back in as soon as possible . |
| 30 | Ellen wondered if she should perhaps look for a replacement , but put it off . |