Example sentences of "[pron] but [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ However , ’ he continued smoothly , not giving Rachel a chance to say anything , ‘ if we are to create a harmonious atmosphere , not only for ourselves but for everyone else on this unit , then I think we have to agree not to discuss the past . |
| 2 | I verily believe the Squire would have come himself but since your departure he has been sick abed . |
| 3 | It was a song or a poem — I do n't know which but to my knowledge it has never been published — which was called ‘ Beautiful Angie ’ , and I clicked immediately and realised there had been another woman about the house . |
| 4 | To die for your lord was noble , to betray or forsake him was base , while to outlive him in battle brought disgrace , not only on you but on your kin . |
| 5 | ‘ If you do not , the shame will be not just on you but on your father 's house . |
| 6 | Or , imagine that the lights go out as Harry has just begun saying : ( 2 ) Listen , I 'm not disagreeing with you but with you , and not about this but about this Or , Suppose we find a bottle in the sea , and inside it a message which reads : ( 3 ) Meet me here a week from now with a stick about this big We do not know who to meet , where or when to meet him or her , or how big a stick to bring . |
| 7 | Not just for you but for your kids . |
| 8 | Arrest can mean embarrassment not only for you but for your family and friends . |
| 9 | ‘ At the end of the day you have got to decide what is best not just for you but for your child . |
| 10 | For , of all the doctors I observed , the doctor who used the charity format was the most concerned to emphasise the scientific basis of western medicine , not just to me but to her patients also . |
| 11 | I had assumed up to this point that you really wished to speak not to me but to my husband ( who is of course E J Maitland , a philosopher whose reputation is rather more likely than mine to attract telephone calls from the great officers of state ) and that I was being summoned to the phone merely because he was not there . |
| 12 | I hope , though , there are fifteen hundred families in Portslade who are doing that job , not for me but for them , so that we can carry out the important educational processes that go on within the college . |
| 13 | ‘ I love Linda not for what she did for me but for who she is . |
| 14 | Shortly after the point at which the recital ends , sand was to cover some more helicopters — those sent by President Carter to liberate the American hostages seized in Teheran , where Kapuscinski catches a glimpse not of them but of their place of confinement . |
| 15 | Is the hon. Member aware that the companies argue that responsibility lies not with them but with their contractors ? |
| 16 | Everyone laughs , not at them but with them . |
| 17 | Some major city spaces become foci for activity generated not by buildings surrounding them but by their special sense of identity ( good examples are the Piazza San Marco in Venice and indeed the space in front of our own National Gallery ) . |
| 18 | Your very welcome Letters of the 20th of Aug. and 14th of Septr. reached us on the 23rd and 25th of Jan : they were a joyful relief to us all and were the most acceptable to me since for the first time you acknowledge I have been tried and not found wanting : believe me it will always be my highest gratification to merit the good opinions of every one but of none more than yourself : and the more confidence you repose in me the more strenuous will be my efforts to prove myself worthy of it . |
| 19 | The history of continuing post-war pressure by officers for a flatted development in the East End of North Shields is a fascinating one but for our purposes here what matters is that nearly 1000 flats and maisonettes were built , again at a higher unit cost than that of the contemporary construction of traditional dwellings . |
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| 21 | It was a question Marian had been expecting and which she had been asking herself but to which she did not know the answer . |
| 22 | But she did believe that her revelations had not been bestowed upon her for herself but for everybody . |
| 23 | The agony was in her heart , not just for herself but for everyone , everyone but Fernando Serra . |
| 24 | She is weak and ill but her first prayer is not for herself but for her unborn child who is dedicated to Christ 's service . |
| 25 | In the second chapter of Philippians , a little bit before where we read , Paul 's describing the seriousness of the illness of his friend and companion , Ep Aproditus And even although he had written that the thought of his own death caused him no qualms whatever , when he was writing about his friend , Aproditus being at the point of death , he said , But God had mercy on him and not only upon him but on me also lest I should have sorrow on sorrow . |
| 26 | It was far too dangerous to remain where he was , not only for him but for everyone else as well . |
| 27 | Jesus told them not to weep for him but for themselves because the day would arrive when they would have enough troubles of their own . |
| 28 | His victory is a remarkable triumph not just for him but for his party . |
| 29 | They had wanted each other from that first night , and now , in this dimly lit room , with Nicolo 's mouth on hers , with his hands on her breasts , she had finally run out of lies and excuses , not just for him but for herself . |
| 30 | Whether the consideration or the price that he paid was 1s. 6d. only or 1s. 6d. and three wrappers is a matter not for him but for your Lordships to determine … … . |