Example sentences of "but [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | No indication that anyone had been killed in it or done anything else in it but sit in it . |
| 2 | Bauer was on the Left , so , unlike Renner , his central preoccupation was with the creation of a united working-class movement for the achievement of a socialist State , but undertaken in conditions where nationalism continually divided the workers . |
| 3 | not fudged , but agreed in concrete terms on a rather different basis . |
| 4 | There are many reasons for this , outlined here , but given in greater detail elsewhere ( Illich , 1977 ; Thunhurst , 1982 ; Doyle , 1983 ) . |
| 5 | A little arsenic can cure disorders of the stomach , but given in regular small doses becomes a poison . |
| 6 | The FT-SE 100 share index was down 42 points at one stage but recovered in later trading to end the day down 30.5 points at 2,281.6 . |
| 7 | Overall , the pound depreciated by 6.25 per cent in real terms in the year ended March 1990 , but recovered in the wake of the Gulf crisis , hitting a nine-year high against the US dollar on Aug. 23 ( £1=$1.9515 ) , and rising against the West German currency to over DM3 . |
| 8 | One example might be where a newborn child developed an infection requiring special care , but recovered in a few days . |
| 9 | The water is freezing and there are no bikini-clad girls ti impress , but winter in Cornwall sees the surfing hardcore come into its own . |
| 10 | On Sept. 13 , 1990 , Finance Minister Bérégovoy presented the 1991 budget , which was approved by parliament on Nov. 20 [ see p. 37869 ] but revised in March 1991 to take into account Gulf war costs and the slowdown in the economy [ see p. 38113 ] . |
| 11 | The practice closed during World War I , but reopened in London in 1919 and continued to flourish until 1939 . |
| 12 | The Security Council session was adjourned on May 26 , but reopened in New York a few days later . |
| 13 | Investigations were then suspended for lack of police evidence , but reopened in 1987 when another judge accused the Dicomcar police intelligence directorate of being responsible . |
| 14 | First of all you advertise in a trade magazine , and your current chef , reliable , but limited in ability , sees the advertisement and leaves the kitchen never to return . |
| 15 | A good player — Wilko would nt have paid 2M for him otherwise — but limited in his ability to play in different positions . |
| 16 | The purpose of praying is not prayer , but to delight in God , and commune with him for his own sake . |
| 17 | We used to visit Toftingall frequently , not only to fish , but to delight in the wide variety of bird life that called the loch home . |
| 18 | The chief property of poetry is coherence , not of a logical kind , but consisting in the harmonization of conflicting meanings or attitudes ; poetry is objectively characterized , Wimsatt suggested ( 1958 : 236 ) , by a ‘ wholeness of meaning established through internally differentiated form , the reconciliation of diverse parts ’ . |
| 19 | Not to give freebies but to invest in the workers of the future . |
| 20 | She did not want to go , but lived in an unmodernised house with a coal fire as the main source of heat . |
| 21 | He would not , one might guess , have destroyed the ugly new houses left by the occupying power of his homeland but lived in one of them ; and though ( like the heroes of Tolkien and Lewis ) he likes beer as well as wine , he is not interested , as they were , in the cosy provincial life of the academic coterie . |
| 22 | She looked at Peter 's back — she had not , she observed , done a perfect job this week on ironing his surplice and old Miss Dunstable , who was Mistress of the Robes at the Cathedral , but lived in Loxford , would both notice this , and point it out — and wondered what would become of him . |
| 23 | Four of these were members of the networks under observation , but lived in neighbouring townships and so were excluded from the quantitative analysis which concerned itself with the known-unknown ratio in specific townships . |
| 24 | But here too there is a danger of distortion : occupants who were very poor but lived in a house with masonry foundations , surrounded by heaps of discarded food debris , and who used poor quality pottery ( fragments of which would survive ) might well appear to have had better living conditions than the richer occupants of a site who lived in a large timber-built house , using high-quality wooden and leather vessels ( which would not usually survive ) , and were able to employ servants to remove debris from the immediate vicinity of the house . |
| 25 | He did not retire into a monastery but lived in Rangoon as a layman , under constant police surveillance . |
| 26 | He was present at the funeral of Edward VI , but lived in quiet retirement during Mary I 's reign . |
| 27 | The case concerned the wife of a civil servant who worked in Northern Ireland but lived in the Irish Republic . |
| 28 | He did not even go to London much , but lived in villages and small country towns . |
| 29 | Four years prior to his death he gave a house to his daughter but lived in it . |
| 30 | The early factories depended on water power ; in 1716 John Lombe built a silk mill in Derbyshire , recognizably an industrial building but situated in the country . |