Example sentences of "but [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to go on from this to the recommendation of the Bullock Report that workers should have representation on a company 's board is to change the nature of the institution , which in my judgment is quite unwarranted . |
| 2 | But to go down to ten , that 's good . |
| 3 | But to go back to the old ways ‘ would be a colossal mistake , ’ he declared . |
| 4 | But to go back to my earlier question — why so long in my case ? |
| 5 | I 'll come back to that in a moment because we still only enrol a rather tiny proportion of those active in our sport but to go back to the point about training . |
| 6 | And so people had no other option but to go out to work . |
| 7 | On the 4th , Sophie , who normally visited her sister every day to help out , decided not to go , but to go out for a walk instead . |
| 8 | ‘ But to go out on a limb and take any bunch of morons , just those that happened to be around when he met Plumpton , and propose that they should do this thing — that 's really sticking your neck out . |
| 9 | And so you find yourself forced , not merely to note the diversity of belief and the strength of individual confidence , and to be a bit sceptical , but to search around for principles of adjudication , for ways of trying to sort out what beliefs are reasonable and acceptable , and what not . |
| 10 | The greater part of their duties in terms of expenditure was not handed down to the boroughs but passed over to newly established joint boards for police , the fire brigade , passenger transport and the probation service because these functions require wider operational areas than the boroughs can provide . |
| 11 | His funeral , held on May 23 , was attended by several thousand mourners , but passed off without violence . |
| 12 | Having seized and anaesthetised one , she does not withdraw her sting but flies back to her burrow with the fly still impaled behind her like a sausage on a stick . |
| 13 | If you do not reply , the PP does not repeat but goes on to the next question . |
| 14 | As for Irina , Franca could not , and did not try to , make her out , but got on with her perfectly well . |
| 15 | The other two aircraft had been damaged but got off with bullet holes only . ’ |
| 16 | He was caught in the act but got off with a caution . |
| 17 | But got back with tired crews and tired passenger . |
| 18 | The ventral arm plates are axe shaped ; thin proximally but flaring out with a wide convex distal edge and only contiguous on the first few arm segments . |
| 19 | She lives with Roche above the city in a ‘ Californian ’ company house on the Ridge : this suburb , barricaded , fireproof perhaps , but lived in by prospective quitters of the country , supplies a further scene for the events of the novel . |
| 20 | The smaller English house does not steer a straight and obvious course of architectural style , but veers off into strange and pleasurable directions like that of ‘ Strawberry Hill ’ Gothic or Victorian ‘ Queen Anne ’ . |
| 21 | If they are unbalanced , that is you attack effectively but lose out on your defence , your opponent also will accrue points . |
| 22 | But when she had washed her hair and dressed in a new pair of designer jeans and a silk shirt that had been a Christmas present and which she 'd never worn before — it was n't to Eva 's house that she went but back down into the town , towards the theatre and the Franz Joseph . |
| 23 | The First Division strugglers were 3–0 down after only 24 minutes to goals from Craig Maskell ( 2 ) and Martin Ling but fought back to almost snatch a point . |
| 24 | But to sit around in a house , organising bazaars , having my hair done , that sort of thing ? |
| 25 | The community was not homogenous , but made up of a multitude of different groups with different attitudes and beliefs , while ‘ relations within the community , between different groups , are significantly outside the control of the police ’ . |
| 26 | He had no abilities , but made up for this drawback with sharp elbows . |
| 27 | Gloucester had missed four penalties … but made up for things with an opening try … as full-back Martin Roberts picked up a tap penalty and bulldozed his way through to score … |
| 28 | Harvey missed the conversion but made up for it ten minutes later with an angled penalty . |
| 29 | Besides Macbeth and Lear Tolkien was probably struck by The Tempest and A Midsummer Night 's Dream ( the two ‘ fairy ’ plays and the two whose plots were not borrowed but made up by Shakespeare ) . |
| 30 | The last chit I hired not only got herself — well , you know , with the coachman , but made off with some of my best lace when I turned her away . |