Example sentences of "[to-vb] but [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her explanation : ‘ He was going to tour but when it got closer he realised he did n't want to . |
| 2 | Absolutely , and you will find when we look on the video the number of people who held up a piece of paper if you hold things up and I 'm holding this now because I 'm about to write but if if you stand here and hold a piece of paper then it 's very difficult to make symmetrical palm gestures , open palm gestures . |
| 3 | Control at this level is likely to be difficult to establish but when it is achieved it will be deep and self-sustaining . |
| 4 | Shana was going to come but because she was pregnant decided not to risk it . |
| 5 | The water was heavily impregnated with minerals and unpleasant to drink but after the tea in his flask was finished , it was to help to keep him alive . |
| 6 | The renewed popularity of Japanese gardens , not only as places to visit but as inspirations for western design , can be seen in two forthcoming books : Maggie Oster 's Japanese Garden Style ( Cassell , March , £19.99 , 0 304 34222 X ) , and Philip Cave 's Creating Japanese Gardens ( Aurum Press , May , £19.99 , 1 85410 212 5 ) , which comes with an imprimatur from Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe . |
| 7 | I mean the w the pelican crossing case started with , when I was a councillor before nineteen eighty eight an and it 's a difficult one to detect but if you have n't occasionally come back late at night and there 's no traffic that you can spot it because no vehicle d detect vehicles when there are n't any . |
| 8 | They say that it 's easy to denigrate but when you hate as much as JOHN BITUMEN the problem is one of selection . |
| 9 | Denis Smith says he enjoyed himself at Stoke especially in the early seventies when they had a good team … as a professional he wants Oxford to win but after the game will revert to being a stoke supporter … he says his young son also supports them |
| 10 | We still have some way to go but if this magnificent generosity continues we can be sure that the future of the Cathedral is in the safe hands of the people of the Diocese . |
| 11 | I always wanted to go but when Tito died I said to Arthur ooh it might be a bit risky . |
| 12 | They 're just nice and comfortable at the end of the day when your feet are really swollen but nice and easy to wear but if it 's tight |
| 13 | She quickly learned to swim but because of her small size had some initial problems with buoyancy and kept bobbing to the surface like a cork ! |
| 14 | It 's a game of chance in n it I mean you pay your money , you you you come here to lose but if you win it' a bonus . |
| 15 | The dose equivalence over 24 hours is more difficult to estimate but since salmeterol has a longer duration of action salmeterol 50 µg twice daily may be equivalent to salbutamol 500 µg four to six hourly . |
| 16 | Turkey on its own is easy to accommodate but once you have piled on the stuffing , sausages , bacon and cranberry sauce , your poor old wine is struggling to hold its own . |
| 17 | I know exactly what words to use but when I 'm with him I ca n't get them out . |
| 18 | ‘ I know it 's a terribly Yank thing to do but while I 'm here , perhaps we could go and do some antique shops , yes ? ’ |
| 19 | See , Sue has n't come back to me , the science department has n't come to me so I 'm not , I may leave that and say , and do something like that next year in a module or wait until I 've finished again I do n't mind , that 's still something in my mind which I would like to do but because talking to the form tutor 's , what I had written down as a fait a complet erm they 're not too keen so therefore I opened up and say you know , which particular things they were interested in the banking one they are very interested in the environment one , yes , within the school tidy upping area that they would like to do but I 've got ta be able to , and I do n't when planting season is or if I wan na put , be able to put flowers in etcetera , you see what I mean ? |
| 20 | ‘ Gavin , ’ noted McGeechan , ‘ speaks to everyone — senior players , new caps , replacements , whoever — not because it is the thing to do but because that 's the kind of bloke he is . |
| 21 | erm because that 's like a continuous thing erm with with some other stuff , if it 's just like essays or projects due in at the end of this term or beginning of next , you know get , get the light stuff out of the way first erm and try you may find it easier if you , if you , what I used to do was sort of try and , you know , pace it out a little bit and not try and write an essay all at once because I found that very difficult to do but if you just sort of write a paragraph and do , do something else for a bit and you know kind of write another paragraph a bit later on in the day and , and , you know , kind of erm you know work , you know do n't , do n't try and write an essay all in one evening but try and sort of , you know , if you 've managed to spread it out over the course of a few days so that you do n't have to do too much at once I mean it 's difficult to concentrate on one thing |
| 22 | A bit slow to start but when it got going it was outstanding . ’ |
| 23 | So it 's a very great honour and privilege for me to address you today because at the end it may be difficult for you to understand but when I return to South Africa , and forgive me for speaking personally I also realize the full meaning of the support of British trade unions and the labour movement and the churches because it was because of your political material and particularly in the case of the G M B , financial and material support that it gave us the means to do what some of us wanted to do about our country and our situation , and bring about change if we could peacefully . |
| 24 | I feel that this is a difficult poem to understand but when it has been read a few times the meaning becomes clear . |
| 25 | The psychologist commented that Balbinder had liked having a reading book and clearly wanted to read but when it came to reading he did not understand what he was doing but relied on guessing . |
| 26 | It 's easy to criticize but when an audience grows to this size , there is the responsibility of allowing as many fans as possible to see the shows . |
| 27 | Inexorably her thoughts turned to suicide , not because she wanted to die but because she desperately wanted help . |
| 28 | It is usually assumed that teachers and heads are held to account but whether they are accountable to resource providers ( ratepayers , taxpayers , policy makers , administrators ) , customers ( pupils , parents , employers ) , or their professional colleagues , is ill-defined . |
| 29 | He did not find Lawrence and Morris easy to reconcile but since " the House in R v Morris considered that there had plainly been an appropriation in Lawrence 's case , there must have been because [ the victim ] , although he had permitted or allowed his money to be taken , had not in truth consented to the [ accused ] taking anything in excess of [ what was agreed ] . |
| 30 | It 's not my job to decide but if we do well hopefully it ( his captaincy ) might continue . ’ |