Example sentences of "but [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once they had turned the Mount , with the full span of the ice shining before them , the two men gathered pace , at once in harmony and contention , drawing vigour from the presence of the young woman between them , who cried out , not in fear but encouraging them on to greater exertions . |
| 2 | But organizing and overseeing Little Tuckett Church Fête had lowered her resistance . |
| 3 | But organizing a world tour that will take in places like Harare , Delhi and São Paulo as well as the normal rich-world rock centres is a major feat . |
| 4 | At the time of its production , Diaghilev was convinced that another truly Russian ballet was needed , traditional in essence but reflecting the revolutionary ideas of contemporary artists working in Russia as well as Paris . |
| 5 | In the late eleventh and twelfth centuries city after city set the bishop aside ( often with his consent ) and established committees of consuls , or some other ruling authority , not perhaps quite democratic — for they represented the powerful citizens , not the polloi — but reflecting a new and vivid aspiration . |
| 6 | He compares three studies , carried out respectively in 1949 , 1972 and 1983 , but reflecting the educational and social conditions of well before those dates . |
| 7 | All three features are designed to convey that Henry is not just looking at the roots but reflecting on them and struggling to think what it is they bring to mind . |
| 8 | Nelson Mandela , the newly elected ANC president [ see p. 38324 ] , said that talks with the government could not continue while the government conducted " a double strategy of talking peace but waging war " against the ANC . |
| 9 | It now appears that , in addition to this , I will be expected to part with a further portion of my income as a graduate tax to pay for my education , the last three years of which I am spending in hospitals , not only studying , but assisting on a voluntary basis with essential clinical procedures and tests . |
| 10 | But assisting her investigations into a perfectly natural death as if it were murder was little short of lunacy . |
| 11 | She 'd hated the submarine journey across the North Sea , especially as she was a bit claustrophobic , but stepping over the side into that ridiculous little rubber boat was terrifying . |
| 12 | If members of a conquering nation called upon the nation they had conquered and continued to hold down to forget their specific nationality and position , to ‘ sink national differences ’ and so forth , that was not internationalism , it was nothing else but preaching to them submission to the yoke , and attempting to justify and perpetuate the domination of the conqueror under the cloak of internationalism . |
| 13 | Play was end to end in the first half , but catching Bicester cold after a player had been down injured for some time , Wantage took the lead on thirty five minutes , when Andy Cooper brilliantly volleyed home a touch on from Jamie Alexander for a one nil half time lead . |
| 14 | The king 's son feigns all manner of vice , exceeding even Macbeth — but professing for himself a list of vices so horrible that Macduff is forced to exclaim that if he succeeds to the throne , Scotland will receive a far worse tyrant . |
| 15 | Although famed for rattling off statistics on the recession , rather than the ‘ vision thing ’ , his Sovereignty Lecture for Charter 88 at the start of the election campaign set out some useful parameters for the debate that must now take place : on citizenship and community , ‘ not just tidying up our constitution but transforming it ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're inviting into your lives a negative force , welcoming that which tempts us all , but transforming that emptiness , that jealousy , that hatred into a living , breeding monstrosity . |
| 17 | Keith Fletcher , a fair but demanding taskmaster , praised him highly , both for his batting and his captaincy on what was , for the young A team , a daunting tour . |
| 18 | Sir William dealt with this in his own typical fashion , hanging three Douglas ringleaders there and then , but demanding a like example to be made of the Hamiltons , which was scarcely equitable , since the Douglases had started it all and were three times as numerous as their hereditary foes . |
| 19 | Whether within a single topic or within a range of topics , the construction of material aimed to illustrate links between concepts or links between topics is a fascinating but demanding exercise . |
| 20 | His spells in club management with Middlesbrough , Sheffield Wednesday and Newcastle United were enjoyable but demanding . |
| 21 | Sitting weeping in the bathroom Agnes demanded of herself how she could have been so responsive to every whim of Magill 's mood and so dull but demanding and clumsy with Maxim … |
| 22 | Voicing concern about the alleged abuses , Councillor Elizabeth Leitch , of Monklands District , said : ‘ We should not be asking for changes here but demanding changes . |
| 23 | It stains and protects in one , allowing the woodgrain to show , but filtering out ultra-violet light and repelling water |
| 24 | Then Nathan had come , brought by Paul , to whom he was devoted ; but attaching himself to her also at once . |
| 25 | 30 June 1989 found most of the battalion not on guard in bearskins and tunics , but enjoying the last day of a fortnight 's shooting on the ranges at Salisbury Plain , on ISAAC . |
| 26 | But Something must be Done , and I collar our captain , who is not in his office but enjoying a cigar on the pool deck with the purser . |
| 27 | At 10 am , with the French heavily outnumbered but enjoying the weather gauge , as a ‘ small gale ’ was blowing from the south-south-west , some miles off Cap Barfleur , at the north-east point of the Cotentin peninsula , de Tourville , who had no faith in the proposed invasion , led his ships towards the enemy . |
| 28 | Good health is as much to do with being in good spirits , being happy and content , coping with the problems and difficulties of life , but enjoying life to the fullest extent possible . |
| 29 | Jones was in his room in the Cabinet Offices , carrying on the routine business of a Labour Government , of which paradoxically he was throughout his life a consistent voting supporter , but enjoying none of the intimacy with MacDonald which he had achieved with each of the three preceding Prime Ministers . |
| 30 | Feeling fraudulent , but enjoying himself immensely , Branson went looking for an island . |