Example sentences of "but [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one thing for Miss Sally-Anne Tunstall , pampered beauty , to contemplate the horrors of poverty from the relative comfort of Vetch Street , but to see it in practice , that was quite another thing . |
| 2 | They pass a stone doorway in the tunnel wall , but by-pass it in favour of a more obvious way out . |
| 3 | But sit him in the cockpit of a Stealth Fighter airplane and he 'll whup anyone 's ass ( it 's the rest of the office 's fault for telling him he looks like tom Cruise ) . |
| 4 | They were dismissed for 118 in only 44 overs but redeemed themselves in the field , cutting an impressive swathe through the Railway Union batting to win by 39 runs . |
| 5 | She had been tricking herself earlier into thinking that he did , that their friendship was nearly as important to him as it was to her , but seeing him in the garden with Marise tonight , and hearing about his marriage , unhappy though it had been , had made her realise that friendship was never as important as passion — at least , she was sure , not to a man . |
| 6 | Agnes was about to say scathingly ‘ Ask how ? ’ but caught herself in time . |
| 7 | Rose dropped the stone but caught it in time . |
| 8 | Bonhoeffer returned to Germany , but found himself in conflict with the mood of the times when identified with Hitler 's arrogance and brutality . |
| 9 | Mr Kelly , a slater-plasterer ran off but found himself in a dead end . |
| 10 | Sparta disciplined the Phukians , but found herself in a trap . |
| 11 | To recognize the value present in a situation ( he urges ) is not merely to have an attitude which someone else who conceives the ‘ factual character ’ of the situation in exactly the same way might lack , but to conceive it in a particular kind of way which could not be duplicated in someone not thus drawn to it . |
| 12 | If a power of appointment , either in law or in fact , is vested in trade unions , the effect is not only to arrogate to them rights attaching only to ownership , but to establish them in this particular matter as the constitutional equals of Parliament . |
| 13 | He was about to tell the Headmaster the Bookman had a whole box of questions in his home but stopped himself in time . |
| 14 | She was about m add , ‘ I suppose that 's because you 're a tramp and sleep amongst them at night sometimes , ’ but stopped herself in time . |
| 15 | Power is not something that is possessed such as blue eyes or red hair but manifests itself in terms of relations with others . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Perhaps it is too radical and imaginative a suggestion , but has anyone in the local government structure of Suffolk looked beyond their plans to build houses on Ipswich Airport and considered what a fine civil airport for the county either of the two unwanted RAF airfields might make ? |
| 18 | This book focuses upon 1985 , a mid-way point in the Thatcher years , but places it in the context of the changing reporting which we have studied in the years 1951 , 1961 , 1971 , 1978 as well as 1985 . |
| 19 | How they used to ask him not to go to their posh prep school , but to meet them in the town . |
| 20 | De Gaulle had not set out to destroy the EEC , but to remould it in a more appropriate form , where the ‘ ambiguities ’ and ‘ mistakes ’ which he believed to be contained within the Treaty of Rome would be eliminated . |
| 21 | Violette had set up as a paper restorer , an arcane occupation which took precise scientific skill but involved her in outlandish escapades with police and businessmen or lawyers . |
| 22 | The Prison Service is reviewing the leave system , but defends it in principle , saying : |
| 23 | He decided they are not , ‘ since the intellectual has no direct contact with life in the raw , but encounters it in its easiest synthetic form — upon the printed page . ’ |
| 24 | And finally , the expert again we spoke about that , a good example really is in the computer world where you have individuals who get on really well with computers and programming but put them in a group and they really do n't provide any in fact if anything they take away from the group . |
| 25 | He did not eat it but put it in his pocket , where it would lie forgotten for months . |
| 26 | But put it in a Scotch Whisky bottle , and the tax is 19.81p . |
| 27 | I suppose someone could have come from Royston , perhaps leaving after us but passing us in the mist to plan their ambush … ’ |
| 28 | Not only do you have to fold it with fastidious care to avoid pinching and clouding the plastic rear window , but fitting it in a hurry is simply impossible . |
| 29 | For such Catholic sixth forms or sixth form colleges , therefore , the challenge is not simply to be as good as the alternative but to exceed it in reputation and appeal . |
| 30 | His alternative was to increase the army 's number of permanent divisions from thirty-one to forty-seven , to maintain them at a relatively low level in peacetime , but to triple them in size on the outbreak of war . |