Example sentences of "but [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Search me , squire , ’ I replied , ‘ But off the top of my bonce I 'll hazard a guess how many have masturbated ! ’ |
| 2 | Altrincham , flirting with danger near the bottom of the GM Vauxhall Conference , are at home to Port Vale ; Yeovil , nearer the top but off the pace , greet Hereford . |
| 3 | They beat Buckinghamshire , by one run and Northumberland by 93 runs , but off the very last ball . |
| 4 | But Off the record detectives refer to the burglary boom as one of Britain 's few growth industries . |
| 5 | Somewhere there , but off the would n't it be but erm it was an event erm when I had a rise in wages my mother being a dressmaker she used to have a machine under the little front window and when I got a , I had a , they 'd put my wages up to ten shillings , and when I got in mum came over and said what 's the matter with you she said you seem as if you 're walking on air I said I 'd had a rise in wages and it was up from eight and four pence up to ten shillings I do n't know what that seems but still . |
| 6 | Mrs Fraser was suspected in the neighbourhood of being an enemy spy ; presently she remarried — her new husband a jolly , but for the son disturbing wing-commander . |
| 7 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 8 | But for the time being , with a young family at home , he is very happy to have switched to contract catering . |
| 9 | ‘ Teenage music ’ had not yet arrived , and what there was was essentially for adults , in the form of country and western and rhythm and blues ; jazz was popular , of course , in some circles , but for the rest it was this or classical music , which Leonard also enjoyed , and waltzes . |
| 10 | To that extent the SuperCut is also on the right lines , and has some benefits , but for the serious woodcutter it is limiting . |
| 11 | My doubts have grown during the years I have been thinking about and then writing this book , but for the moment I will concede that for many scholars and teachers a clarion-call to defend ‘ literature as literature ’ would prove rousing and timely . |
| 12 | But for the moment , that 's not the point — which is rather that those who have been , legitimately or at least understandably , affronted by the pretensions of Olson as poet should not therefore write him off as anything but what he was : an exceptionally earnest and magnanimous man , and a man moreover who knew , as few poets since John Milton have known , what the polity looks like from the point of view of those who administer it day by day . |
| 13 | But for the help of a friend who sleeps in the bungalow at night , and who can help her go to the toilet if she needs to , she says she would have to go into a home . |
| 14 | ‘ I fought a number of battles but for the last 10 days before we left , because things did n't go too well , I was commanding the rearguard on the Aegean Sea . ’ |
| 15 | The 76-year-old Euro-MP , who currently lives in West Germany , said he would of course not rule out a run some time in the future but for the moment he feels he can do more to promote his country in the European parliament . |
| 16 | Conversation at table is as superfluous as a sermon in church ; all is still but for the ping of the latest microwave masterpiece . |
| 17 | Less happily , but for the same reason , repossessed houses are often auctioned . |
| 18 | I rehearse these arguments not in an attempt to settle them but for the purpose of casting doubt upon the thesis that the performance of the economy is at the crux of the Government 's difficulties . |
| 19 | Being rude about Palin feels like bombing Switzerland , but for the first time he seems , with this series , to be to post-Python what Paul McCartney was to post-Beatles . |
| 20 | Such excitements are rare ; The Hague has a few clubs and theatres and it will soon have its own ballet company , but for the most part the Hagenaars , as the residents are known , spend their evenings at home and retire at a respectable hour . |
| 21 | Railway stock sent from Black Sea ports to another area , the Middle Volga , was not sent back for more grain , but for the most part ended up in Siberia . |
| 22 | But for the clients of the Thatcher order in the south and east of the nation , it was more than enough . |
| 23 | But for the alteration in taxation in the Budget and also the minor alterations in projected expenditure which preceded it , we should have been facing 1968/69 with the identical prospect of a further creation of additional purchasing power . |
| 24 | This is grievous news , grievous not only for this and other universities but for the nation ; for it is a grave national misfortune to be governed by those who do not know what a university is and what distinguishes it from other institutions of learning and study , not to mention training . |
| 25 | But for the whole economy the increase is only 1.9 per cent , better than the 1970s but lower than the 1960s . |
| 26 | as if to ensure , however , that we can not interpret this work as a declaration of Gironella , s ideas about race and colour in Mexico , there exists another version , almost identical but for the fact that this is a white queen . |
| 27 | This defence of Marxism carries over , however , to a critique of Modernism itself : not merely for the fact that Nietzsche attaches ‘ importance ’ to art but for the further claim ascribed to him , and therefore to Modernism itself , that ‘ the nature of aesthetic experience contains in nuce the form of understanding proper to the world itself ( p. 66 ) . |
| 28 | But for the women involved it was also a kind of victory . |
| 29 | Friends of the Earth proposes a dozen green taxes , three of which would directly affect the motorist , It calls for abolition of road tax , but for the price of petrol to be raised to what it was in real terms in 1975 . |
| 30 | Understeer and roll are well contained , but for the enthusiast driver the Paseo 's dull turn-in and bland steering are disappointing . |