Example sentences of "[adv] but [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Collate means not only collect together but organize it . |
| 2 | I do n't , I mean we do n't have them much but do we really ? |
| 3 | Got up like a tart with her new frocks and her jewellery and all that muck on her face , and not a bleeding thing to do all day long but watch that colour telly and ring up her pals . |
| 4 | I think , I think we need a meeting to get it laid down , we need a meeting to clear the air or not clear the air necessarily but get some definitions some definitions down yeah ? |
| 5 | Then list the rest of the cast below but put Therese 's name at the top , same size lettering as Alfred 's . |
| 6 | We shall elaborate on this simple division below but suggest here that the wealth of literature on the former ( see , for instance , Burton et al. 1978 and Perry 1981 ) has yet to be matched by a similar volume of work on the latter . |
| 7 | This is not really improved if worn backwards or upside down but try it inside out ! |
| 8 | Litter should not be thrown down but put in the bins provided . |
| 9 | You will not have to strip the tank down but wait until the remaining fish are back to 100 per cent health and then begin re-stocking very slowly . |
| 10 | It would n't take too much more ingenuity to cut the speed of the sample down but keep the pitch the same , thus making the target guitar part much easier to distinguish . |
| 11 | If you ca n't , or if your fingers are arthritic and you ca n't write much , let her write it down but take a part in it yourself . |
| 12 | However , there is also your prose side , which urges time not to slow down but hurry up . |
| 13 | Er they have well just the same as er some of these weight reducers. they 'll take the weight down but look at the side effects . |
| 14 | Lonely : The spiritual isolation of the disease is lonely enough but add to this the " Jekyll and Hyde " behaviour ( depending upon whether or not a drink or drug has been taken that day ) causing untold damage to family and other relationships and the loneliness becomes intense . |
| 15 | You go to sleep quickly enough but find that you wake frequently during the night . |
| 16 | Practise speaking your answers out loud but do not learn them off by heart . |
| 17 | The time can be shortened , however , if those members who were supposed to make some enquiry or obtain some information , or to write a short factual statement , have not only done so but have informed the Hon. |
| 18 | yeah it looks a real treat it does and it 's just taken that Cuprinol nicely but mind you I did n't put it up too thick I well it 's had two coats so it does , it looks a treat so er I 'm a I 'm very pleased with it anyway and er the woman there , Rita |
| 19 | Privately , Harriet could only but agree . |
| 20 | The ones appointed to do the job had never been very good at it , but he had heard a rumour that Horemheb was training a secret corps of police , answering to him alone but set up in the pharaoh 's name and in the interests of national security . |
| 21 | Panorama ( BBC-1 , Monday , 9.30pm ) asks : Should the taxpayer foot the bill for thousands of single mothers like these , who live alone but have several babies and expect the State to pay for them ? |
| 22 | PANORAMA ( BBC1 9.30pm ) asks : Should the taxpayer foot the bill for the thousands of single mothers who live alone but have several babies and expect the State to pay for them ? |
| 23 | Dissolves can also be edited in but require the use of rather more sophisticated equipment than for simple fades . |
| 24 | Cover the bloom with a polythene bag — or better , if you can make them up , fine muslin bags that will let the air in but keep the insects out . |
| 25 | he never does that and that , and that 's what we were saying on Friday and it seems like , and I think you 've tried to put all those in but change yourself a bit . |
| 26 | Well that have actually been told that if anything comes in providing This is what I ca n't get through We 've said to them you can bring your radios in but give to Brian first . |
| 27 | And then minus a hundred and minus X squared , and put the millions and things in but do n't need to . |
| 28 | It was Allen who all but put United two-up when he went flying through again only to be bodychecked … he was too quick for Bristol and penalty taker Jim Magilton was too accurate … |
| 29 | SWINDON saw their hopes of a place in the Second Division play-offs all but disappear in a 1–1 stalemate with Bristol Rovers in a desperately disappointing West Country derby at Twerton Park . |
| 30 | In the A sections , the tune is more subtly transformed : the basic melodic shapes are still there , for listeners familiar with the original , but they are ‘ glossed ’ , ‘ paraphrased ’ , by changing a few notes here , a few notes there ; the repetitions of the original all but disappear . |