Example sentences of "but not [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was born into the trap , he walked into it in avoiding another kind of servitude , with his eyes open , but not looking where he was going . |
| 2 | For me , too , it seems allied with giving the fundamental grief and despair room and expression , using them as a kind of necessary ballast but not taking so much of them on board that they swamp the vessel . |
| 3 | He said North Americans were the worst for ‘ taking the bills away but not sending back the cheque ’ . |
| 4 | This one was pale , pasty , underfed , but not rotting away . |
| 5 | If such Caravan is disabled by reason of such loss or damage the Corporation will bear the reasonable cost of protection and removal to the nearest repairers but not exceeding in all 20% of the agreed cost of repairs . |
| 6 | Thus if a defective toaster catches fire damaging the house and contents , one adds up the value of the damage done ( but not including either the toaster itself or any property used mainly for business purposes , e.g. a word processor ) . |
| 7 | Roberta , disturbed but not knowing why , had stretched up arms to yawn , then sat up , womanly breasts lolling , and she stared with displeasure at Alice . |
| 8 | She sucked again from the tea-bulb , feeling its plastic smoothness dent as it emptied , knowing it came from a floating colony like she did but not knowing why it should be used on a steady-gravity planet like Mars . |
| 9 | It 's quite legal , but not knowing exactly where you are sending a pup is a disgrace . |
| 10 | It must have been a strange experience for him , Rufus had thought , knowing he owned all sorts of things but not knowing quite what or where they were . |
| 11 | Although I could n't tell the difference at the time , I was in fact wrong yesterday and right today , and this is sufficient to ground a difference in the outside observer 's description of me as knowing today but not knowing yesterday . |
| 12 | ‘ Quite honestly , Rosemary , he 's not so good , ’ Leith answered , hating to put any pressure on her friend but not knowing how else she could answer . |
| 13 | A bedside light should be placed so the light source is above your head but not shining directly onto your eyes . |
| 14 | Girls were at the back , looking on , but not joining in . |
| 15 | However , in some situations the melody is so pacific and widely spread that harmonic change can be relatively frequent , embroidering but not changing excessively the atmosphere . |
| 16 | She makes a cup of tea which Ma stares at , Ma is very white but not crying so I suppose that is something . |
| 17 | Simon was on one phone at his desk , grunting a lot but not saying much . |
| 18 | ‘ Not weak , but not bluffing either — not pretending he 'd never really wanted her , hated her , was better on his own . |
| 19 | He did not feel so hostile to them as he did to the ravens , and merely ignored them , overflying them if they came too close but not behaving more aggressively than that . |