Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [pron] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't easy , but I persuaded him to do the right thing . |
| 2 | But I sent someone to meet the Charlotte T. when she docked at Tilbury on her return . |
| 3 | But I grabbed something to stay the pangs of hunger on the way down . |
| 4 | I know she 'll learn in time but I want her to avoid the pitfalls . ’ |
| 5 | Of course we take all of these worries seriously — but I want you to get the scale of the complaints in perspective . |
| 6 | Is the on the C V T , but again it 's , it 's easier to look at something when we 're talking about this , so I 'm going to ask you to look at the Covermaster rate book , which does n't have page numbers , but I want you to find the allocation to units table which is about four or five pages in . |
| 7 | Jezrael 's heart beat faster but she forced herself to slow the shallow breathing of panic . |
| 8 | Sorry to moan , but we trusted you to write the truth . |
| 9 | Some of the requirements may be unnecessary but we urge you to adopt the suggested techniques wherever possible to give you the practice that is needed before you can become a competent report writer . |
| 10 | But they had no-one to explain the uses of what they learned and knowledge of itself could easily overbalance a carefully structured society . |
| 11 | But they expect us to keep the place open for ‘ em . |
| 12 | But they want you to use the graph and that 's what they 're giving the marks for . |
| 13 | Surely the great blaze of reds and golden yellows was a marvellous sight , but they did nothing to ease the apprehension in her heart . |
| 14 | But they did nothing to diminish the heat , seeming instead to enclose it and its still , threatening air under a thick muffling lid . |
| 15 | He should not be named , but he begged me to tell the outside world of the appalling situation where the wounded are dying unnecessarily because the UN are refusing to transport the wounded out of the city . ’ |
| 16 | Simmons entered the Test with two centuries in his two innings in the One-Day Internationals but he did nothing to erase the doubts over his credentials as a Test batsman , airily driving a low catch to mid-off . |
| 17 | It makes your holiday look a bit more expensive at first , but it allows you to make the most of your stay . |
| 18 | Freud 's model of the collective evolution of some parts of humanity from archaic responses , found in religions , to more rational and reality-based responses , found in science and technology , may be little more than a description of what has happened , but it enables him to avoid the position of cultural relativism and its logical extension — nihilism . |
| 19 | Power steering is now standard , but it does nothing to blunt the feedback coming from front wheels to steering wheel : the old wrist-snapping kickback over bumps is largely eradicated but the important messages are translated as crisply as ever . |
| 20 | The exploitation of ethnicity may perhaps work as a form of primitive accumulation of cultural capital , but it does nothing to enlarge the audience or scope of such work , which is why most artists and writers of any stature have rejected this appellation , even if they have benefited indirectly from it . |
| 21 | But it did nothing to change the institutional stagnation which had been the result of consensus decision-making . |