Example sentences of "but [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But to go back to my earlier question — why so long in my case ? |
| 32 | But to go on being dedicated when you 're a rotten painter ! |
| 33 | Nothing now but to go inside ; to leave |
| 34 | As I hang on to the arm-rest with white knuckles , it is clear to me that Brundle has decided not to attempt the corners but to go straight on to the escape road : the turn is impossible now ; it 's just a joke ; he 's trying to scare the shit out of me . |
| 35 | Nothing for it but to go back the way you came , to Neu St Johann , thence down the Toggenburg valley through the resorts of Nesslau and Ebnat-Kappel to Wattwil . |
| 36 | But to go with the slur of murder still upon him , and always the threat of pursuit and capture ? |
| 37 | But to go down this path of analysis is to put things in an unreasonably negative light . |
| 38 | There was nothing for it now but to go on . |
| 39 | I mean to stop hating , but to go on fighting for what is right for my people . ’ |
| 40 | Not to sleep but simply to think , freely and unobserved , without the burden of her mother 's solicitude , the obligation not only to look cheerful but to go on repeating how well she felt so that Amabel — always unnerved by silence — should not weary her further by growing alarmed . |
| 41 | She had a cup of tea and then after half an hour there was nothing for it but to go . |
| 42 | There was no way left but to go to them . |
| 43 | Medical supplies are going in from this country not only to help Moscow and St. Petersburg , but to go as far as Ekaterinburg , Tymen , Novokuznetsk , the Kiev oblast , the Donetsk oblast , and further afield . |
| 44 | Faced with four alternative approaches to valuation — whether it should be based on capital values , rental values , maintenance costs or rebuilding costs — its choice was not to go for one of them , or even a mixture of two of them , but to go for all four of them . |
| 45 | British producers have little choice but to go for the home market , because the lion share of their budgets comes from the B B C , I T V or Channel Four who commission the programmes in the first place . |
| 46 | I 'll come back to that in a moment because we still only enrol a rather tiny proportion of those active in our sport but to go back to the point about training . |
| 47 | Knowing that there was nothing for it but to go and apologise and , if possible , explain that her regularly serviced car was misbehaving , Fabia had her hand on the door-handle when she realised that she had no need to move . |
| 48 | So we 've been left with no other avenue but to go to law . |
| 49 | People decide not to get married but to go ahead and have children anyway . |
| 50 | But to go beyond this general observation we must examine the pattern of accumulation since the late fifties . |
| 51 | He had tried to hide his fears from his poor wife and gone down to his warehouse where another message had been awaiting him : he was not to return home , the short letter instructed , but to go to the House of the Crutched Friars where his anxieties would be resolved . |
| 52 | But to go to somebody like him who knew his job |
| 53 | She determine not to be put off by her first failure , but to go on doing things to Mary Lou so that in the end the class would have to put the tricks down to Alicia and Daryl . |
| 54 | But to go down to ten , that 's good . |
| 55 | And so people had no other option but to go out to work . |
| 56 | But to go up that bit bit further than the other . |
| 57 | The car 's just a practical thing to me , I mean I like to drive around in comfort , everybody likes a nice car , I 'm not saying that , but to go to the extreme of spending what would say , seventy or eighty thousand pounds on a Porsche , I 'd have to be really , really rich before I would consider the luxury of having a Porsche . |
| 58 | But to go two thousand up I would say would be realistic , and achievable . |
| 59 | Not to go at our charge , but to go at your charge . |
| 60 | But to go to and to go to I would have thought would have taken similar lengths of time . |