Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [pron] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At planning meetings with the senior management I often had to endure predictable little jokes about Andreas 's ‘ harem ’ , but I took them with a good grace . |
| 2 | I am still very critical of my own shape but I console myself with the fact that while it is far from perfect , it is better than it used to be . |
| 3 | I went to punch him but I caught him with the crowbar instead . ’ |
| 4 | But I did it with a heavy heart , I can tell you . |
| 5 | My final choice will doubtless find few supporters elsewhere , but I want someone with the dynamism to ensure that no winning opportunity is missed . |
| 6 | But I think we with the wet stuff we 've had going through , the chute is blocking up . |
| 7 | Mr Multhrop bustled forward , but someone forestalled him with a glad cry . |
| 8 | This produced a flood of letters to Downing Street , which were kept from Baldwin during his long holiday , but which hit him with the force of a tidal wave on his return . |
| 9 | She had known this all along , but she knew it with a different knowledge now . |
| 10 | It was an ordeal for Beth to be used for this night after night , but she comforted herself with the knowledge that he truly loved her and was always both gentle and considerate . |
| 11 | but she leaves them with the neighbours or a neighbour , but I mean it 's all different to bringing them up yourself , in n it ? |
| 12 | ’ Bramble began , but she silenced him with a glare from the astonishing blue eyes . |
| 13 | But she stopped me with a look . |
| 14 | What do we charge for this service ? — generally nothing , as our costs are normally covered by commissions payable on business that we introduce but we provide you with a full statement of our Terms of Business before any transaction takes place . |
| 15 | Those of the cast who remembered the euphoria of Taunton were disappointed , but they comforted themselves with the fact that they were at least on , something which three days previously had looked most unlikely . |
| 16 | As with the stereotypes we refer to in the business of everyday life , we know they are not , and can not be , comprehensively true or correct , but they provide us with an indispensable framework within which we can interpret particular instances . |
| 17 | These short features were independent of my research for the book but they provided us with an opportunity of working together and getting to know each other . |
| 18 | The backbone of his work is the new recitative but he uses it with a power quite beyond Peri 's so that it is not merely ‘ expressive ’ but when necessary , as in Orfeo 's lament in Act II , heart-breaking . |
| 19 | The students followed but he threatened them with a knife before running off . |
| 20 | He acknowledged the dog 's overtures , but he eyed her with a good deal of concern . |
| 21 | But he did it with a warming smile and a ready assumption of her allegiance and willingness , more as if he had asked a small current courtesy of his wife than given an order to a servant . |
| 22 | ‘ The job he offered me was a sort of general factotum , a personal troubleshooter , but he wanted someone with a financial background . |
| 23 | She lifted her gaze to him once more , but he hushed her with a finger pressed lightly to her lips . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sorry , I did n't meant to imply … to insult — ’ Belinda began , but he silenced her with a pat on the knee that made her tingle frighteningly all over . |
| 25 | but it left me with an interest in Leeds United which I 've never shaken off , nor have I ever wnated to . |
| 26 | I had expected it to be cold but it surprised me with a suddenness that wrenched my breath away . |
| 27 | This may well be the case , but it leaves one with an increased sense of respect for Eric Shipton and his companions who , in 1929 , made each of the first three Nelion-Batian traverses ( up and down by what is now regarded as the Normal Route ) , in one day . |