Example sentences of "but [verb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But organizing and overseeing Little Tuckett Church Fête had lowered her resistance . |
| 2 | It was not a command to stay put , but to go and make disciples of all the nations . |
| 3 | Knowing that there was nothing for it but to go and apologise and , if possible , explain that her regularly serviced car was misbehaving , Fabia had her hand on the door-handle when she realised that she had no need to move . |
| 4 | The point is not simply to abandon this type of teaching but to acknowledge and analyse its limitations in the light of a more complex understanding of the nature of racism and to develop forms of educational engagement more likely to open up racist subjectivities and common sense to alternative discourses . |
| 5 | The other participants from Japan acknowledged that the country 's CATV regulations make it difficult to obtain public access , but agreed that awakening public interest through seminars and publications is an important first step . |
| 6 | They learn to jump , but crack if asked to do so too often . |
| 7 | After all , policy makers rarely start from first principles but borrow and adapt structures and procedures which they see operating effectively elsewhere . |
| 8 | Another property of curved spaces is that two nearby and initially parallel geodesics do not continue parallel indefinitely , but converge or diverge depending on the local curvature . |
| 9 | Crilly is contemptuous of Henry , but the latter sits beside us just the same , not buying a drink but sniffing and staring dully out of eyes deadish and glazed . |
| 10 | There is nothing for it but to taste and to experiment for yourself . |
| 11 | was to die for us , he said as soon as man came not to be ministered to , but to minister and to give his soul for life , as a ransom in exchange for |
| 12 | On this basis he may by all means erect a system of imperatives logically interrelated with statements of objective fact , and elaborate it to any degree of complexity he pleases , but to confirm or correct it he has always to return to subjectivity , to his own spontaneity in the concrete situation . |
| 13 | The answer to failure and sin is not to move the goalposts but to repent and try again . |
| 14 | But to cower and hide |
| 15 | Woodworm and beetle infestation makes much of it unsuitable for structural work but treated and cleaned up with an adze to give it the right period look , much of it could be put to good decorative effect . |
| 16 | He also uses a paper medium , but moulds and manipulates the paper into a thick backing , whose irregularities show through the paint surface with unexpected effect . |
| 17 | The lesson , in my view is clear : neither to stand still and simply change leader ; nor , certainly , to go lurching back to the early 1980s , but to continue and intensify the process of change . |
| 18 | To proclaim that education is part of a caring social service is not to diminish the part which the education plays , but to enrich and deepen it . |
| 19 | Maximus tried to reconquer Rome but failed and had to call in the help of his British brothers-in-law . |
| 20 | No , not some fanatical carp angler frightened of someone looking in his bait box , but carp that mouthed a bait and spat it out before the angler could strike — if he 'd seen the bite , that is . |
| 21 | Partly because of this book his lectures became famous ; and in them his aim , as the standard English history of classical scholarship puts it , was " not to communicate knowledge , but to stimulate and suggest … |
| 22 | Prices have continued to rise in the North , but to stagnate and fall in the South . |
| 23 | It is not to produce publications but to inform and instruct the reader . |
| 24 | She seemed flabbergasted , but rallied and asked me if I would look in at the Gray Mare in Kilburn and say ‘ hello ’ to her son Joe Kelly who worked there . |
| 25 | The FT-SE 100 index of leading shares dropped 42 points to 2,270 on the announcement of the base rate increase to 15 per cent , but rallied and closed on Thursday only 30.5 points off at 2,281.6 . |
| 26 | She tried looking out of the window to the hospital 's green lawns and the tall eucalypts that stood motionless against a gloriously blue August sky , but found that looking away seemed too impolite . |
| 27 | But , as one founder member of the League commented : " We demanded the right to vote but found that vote to be worthless " ( Transito de Ramirez , Los Angeles . |
| 28 | Erm I think what we have to do in particular as , as , as full time officers is , is probably try and er and erm chase things up although they they 're within the realms of the respo the respective LEC 's but to try and make sure that they do get some clearer , if not confirmed , insight into re in relation to the contribution aspect . |
| 29 | It 's just that you have been waiting all afternoon for it to arrive and now have little choice but to try and bludgeon your way through the waves of cover tacklers . |
| 30 | They are designed not only to keep out black people but to try and intimidate black workers already in Britain and make it harder for them to claim their basic human rights . |