Example sentences of "[det] [noun] but [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Franco knew well what the Allied game was , but , in view of Axis reluctance to give generously , he had little alternative but to play it . |
| 2 | For example , supposing you want to refer to the fact that the groom is a medical student and you have a story about a king dying in the Middle Ages who says the physician has killed him , tell this story but end it , ‘ Of course medicine has come a long way since those days , . |
| 3 | Not unusual in this industry but does it really take an entire A4 page to say it ? |
| 4 | However , it is so much woven into the fabric of multimedia , we will not focus on interactivity in itself in this study but allow it to feature implicitly throughout our assessment of multimedia design , technology and application . |
| 5 | They took the net down after a few weeks but kept it handy , you know . |
| 6 | We have also encountered patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in France who were not apparently linked to any previously described ethnogeographic cluster of this mutation but bore it , suggesting the existence of separate foci . |
| 7 | Su Ragazzi , who are bidding for a league and cup double , beat Jets in straight sets in Sewell 's second game in charge earlier this season but defeated them in the return in Edinburgh . |
| 8 | Well after the break , you can buy them , this is one of them , for as little as twenty five pounds , Elton John 's been wearing something altogether more expensive at the High Court this week but does it look much better ? |
| 9 | We were showing off our handiwork to some friends but admitted we were puzzled by the bedding plants , grown from seed , which produced attractive foliage but nothing else . |
| 10 | Matt would sometimes try to develop this image but found it impossible . |
| 11 | Catherine II persisted with this form but had it more richly jewelled ( fig. 37 ) . |
| 12 | They do not eat this material but chew it up to form a compost on which they cultivate a fungus . |
| 13 | Again , there are those who would quarrel with this view but let me tell you that we all have a mentor , an inner teacher , a guardian angel , a being of light who protects us and is totally dedicated to the task of leading us to the point of self-realization , to bring about the harmony and peace for which we pray . |
| 14 | , ’ If the quotation is a common one you could acknowledge this fact but turn it into a plus , ‘ We all know the lovely poem by John Masefield , which you can never tire of hearing , ( Pause ) ‘ I must go down to the seas |
| 15 | I was trying hard to adjust to this fact but finding it difficult . |
| 16 | I sometimes shape just the first third of the sleeve , increasing rapidly in this section but making it possible to knit the rest of the sleeve straight . |
| 17 | The cones are now all flowing with pitch , and my hands are soon so covered with it that I can not easily cast down my booty when I would , it sticks to my fingers so ; and when I get down at last and have picked them up , I can not touch my basket with such hands but carry it on my arm , nor can I pick up my coat which I have taken off unless with my teeth — or else I kick it up and catch it on my arm . |
| 18 | He admitted being at the Savoy nightclub that evening but said he had gone home with a friend . |
| 19 | ‘ I could n't tell you much about Liverpool 's players these days but ask me about Uxbridge 's outside-right and I 'll give you a Dimbleby lecture — if you can stay awake long enough , ’ he jokes . |
| 20 | I retain some of these feelings but know it 's because of indoctrination not because it 's necessarily true . |
| 21 | Yes , may please your worships I am satisfied that those documents to cover the defendant for the date in question and will therefore offer no evidence in relation to the protest to these premises but to dismiss them . |
| 22 | He said the firm does n't expect to match that price but claims it will offer twice the performance at just under £5,000 . |
| 23 | The patient gets better after each dose but requires it more and more frequently in order to sustain the benefit . |
| 24 | This is defined by British Standard BS 5283 : 1976 as : the destruction of micro-organisms but not usually bacterial spores ; it does not necessarily kill all micro-organisms but reduces them to a level which is neither harmful to health nor the quality of perishable foods . |
| 25 | And then He was crucified and three days later rose from the dead , and at Mass the bread and wine actually turn into flesh and blood , so you should n't have breakfast that morning but take it on an empty stomach . |
| 26 | Well you can do that you , well ten more , ten more minutes but do you need to go to the toilet before you go to school Alex ? |
| 27 | But they said that it was a different matter over in the west , around Appleby way , where they generally paid more money but worked you very hard and gave you little meat . |
| 28 | We are absolutely clear on that , it came over quite clearly from heads , the previous policy of increasing class sizes and therefore not spending any more money but claiming we 're doing a lot for nursery education , the previous policy erm was not one which they wanted to support . |
| 29 | So now the pressure on the broker is not only to do more business but to do it in exactly their way . ’ |
| 30 | She had little choice but to let him draw her close against him , until she was pressed tightly into the hard curve of his body . |