Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] but [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MAN-MADE membranes that allow some charged molecules ( ions ) to pass through them but prevent the passage of others are important components of many medical and technological systems . |
| 2 | Candidates in local elections can expect their followers not only to vote for them but to campaign for them as well . |
| 3 | ‘ Will your family still be here ? ’ asked Nina , glancing from Rachel to David and back to Rachel again , a slightly bemused look on her face as if she did n't really understand what was happening between them but wished she did . |
| 4 | It was never going to be a career for me but kept me in beer money and taught me about how to deal with the public . ’ |
| 5 | When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago . |
| 6 | There was , therefore , no option for me but to resign . |
| 7 | Crilly reaches for me but stops himself ; we are in his mother 's bed after all . |
| 8 | At a meeting of the Cairngorm Club he told a hushed audience ‘ For every few steps I took I heard a crunch as if someone was walking after me but taking steps three or four times the length of my own . |
| 9 | Here it will be quite easy to clear up after them but do exclude them if you are cooking — otherwise they may cause a serious accident . |
| 10 | This had been doubly hurtful , for it meant that she not only did not want to work for and look after him but preferred his lifestyle to her own , and by implication ( for she was a lazy woman ) that meant that she considered what he did not to be work at all , merely a pleasurable means of making a great deal of money . |
| 11 | I suppose someone could have come from Royston , perhaps leaving after us but passing us in the mist to plan their ambush … ’ |
| 12 | Once , he galloped straight towards them but came to a stop a few yards away , rearing on his hind legs before continuing his wild circling . |
| 13 | I consider joining the retreating pair below me but have no harness for the abseil , so I settle down to wait while the climber above seconds the pitch . |
| 14 | By now G. is no longer suspicious of me but turns out to be a lively , talkative , and intelligent man . |
| 15 | The crate-people took no notice of them but arranged their food to the left of them , erected a cross in front of them while their leader pulled an angled prop from behind the picture he was holding and positioned it in the pebbles to the right of the dedicated gathering . |
| 16 | The girl stacking the guide books looked at both of them but said nothing . |
| 17 | Michael , Managing Director at the Brewery has one of them but does not know whether it was Lance Henly 's , but is delighted to learn that it could have been . |
| 18 | Because they can see nothing in front of them but cooking and scrubbing and mending … and endless babies . |
| 19 | Hazel stopped in front of them but did not know what to say . |
| 20 | There will be moves to tighten up this part of the bill in the Commons to try to stop some of the waste imports from countries which can dispose of them but find it politically expedient to export them . |
| 21 | His dreams had come back after many nights which had seemed as empty as death , dreams of walking between high hedges , it was daylight on the other side of them but gloaming where he was and thick earth rose up to his knees , to his waist , stopping him , he tried to open his mouth but his jaw-bones jammed , he was choking … |
| 22 | ‘ I would fain write a long letter to each one of you but have no strength … |
| 23 | As she groped towards a chair he made no move towards her but watched her sit down , then bow her head for a moment before slowly raising her eyes to his again when , in a voice that had lost none of its bitterness , she said ‘ Leave me ; but I 'm warning you , I 'll see you dead first , before you take that girl . ’ |
| 24 | The boy , however , took no notice of her but raised his eyes to the bottles on the shelves and said , ‘ Acid drops . ’ |
| 25 | All that was substantial to her was the boy whom she touched all down the length of her but did not touch . |
| 26 | She had never heard of him but liked the picture of the Victorian women on board the HMS Calcutta . |
| 27 | You wo n't be able to catch all of it but get as much down as you can . |
| 28 | I am not too fond of it but go and judge for yourself . |
| 29 | The present road and I do n't want to get into the detail of it but relate it to environmental costs against the so called benefits , would in fact cut right through there with a viaduct and it would actually start of on something like a twenty seven foot emba er a twenty seven foot high embankment and with a fifty four deep cutting . |
| 30 | So com wi th but we 've agreed , I 'm sorry if I 'm being repetitive and boring and the rest of it but comment , there would be a staff comment , how you use the rest of the space , assume there 's a double space is now left with you given the guidelines are issued . |