Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have not discussed the essays by d " Auzac , Asher , Frowe , McGonigal , Seitz and Gibson , but I recommend them to the reader 's attention . |
| 2 | I ca n't read , but I took it to the priest and he read it to me . ’ |
| 3 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
| 4 | I disagreed with much of what he had to say , but I welcome him to the House from this Bench and look forward to debating these issues with him on many occasions . |
| 5 | But I knocked you to the floor , and the blow was so hard that it made my hand throb for hours afterwards . |
| 6 | She struggles , eyes widening further , but I pin her to the sheets with my weight and keep the glove firmly over her mouth even though she is n't making any noise . |
| 7 | Once you had served a few years , you might come to detest the job , but you committed yourself to the future . |
| 8 | But they made it to the boat , which sailed in the early hours of 1 September , two days before war was declared . |
| 9 | ‘ When I vacated the office I asked the Rates Agency to send me an adjusted bill , but they sent it to the office and I did not get it , ’ he said . |
| 10 | These were demanded relentlessly by the Russian government and by traders because of their commercial value , but they contributed nothing to the natural economy of the natives . |
| 11 | Mr Richardson said : ‘ His mother tried to bar him from using the telephone but he connected himself to the line by running a piece of wire under the carpet and soldering it to the telephone terminal . ’ |
| 12 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 13 | v. Wilts U.D. , but he addresses himself to the question and uses his intelligence . |
| 14 | But what brought her to the point of retaliation was the sight of his hands mauling a plate of sliced mutton , digging his fingers into the pieces of meat and snatching them up and trying to screw them up like pieces of paper and hurl them at the bookcase . |