Example sentences of "but [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to see her like that would hurt my feelings and hurt our Izzat ( pride ) . ’ |
| 2 | It is quite possible to keep a lone specimen but to see them at their best a group is preferable . |
| 3 | As soon as I see that a patient 's breathing pattern is changing dramatically or that the eye movement behind the closed lids is altering , I instruct him to be aware of and to understand all that is happening but to see it as if on a film or television screen , so that he is completely detached and feels no physical or mental distress whatsoever . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But to see it from this perspective is to distort it . |
| 6 | But to see it from this perspective is to distort it . |
| 7 | They pass a stone doorway in the tunnel wall , but by-pass it in favour of a more obvious way out . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | He did n't look around when she came in , but asked her over the sizzling of bacon whether she wanted anything to drink . |
| 10 | He quotes frequently Seneca 's maxim , ‘ Quotidie morimur ’ ( We die daily ) , but transforms it by St Paul 's gloss : ‘ Quotidie morior per vestram gloriam , fratres ’ ( Brethren , for you I die every day : 1 Cor. 15.31 ) ( Lettere a i Familiari , I , p. 351 , and II , p. 371 ) . |
| 11 | Surprisingly , Franco did not make an example of him as he had done in previous such instances of " insubordination " , but appointed him as Ambassador to the Holy See . |
| 12 | I could lend it to you but got it at the moment you know . |
| 13 | But when the Friend begins to age the Poet would wish to die : Here the motif of giving and receiving love , central to this group , uses the traditional metaphor of exchanging hearts , but reanimates it by the particularity with which the trope is extended . |
| 14 | We should not blame him for being a man of his time but commend him for his remarkable vision and altruism . |
| 15 | The Jordanian government closed its al-Ruweishid post on the border with Iraq to all non-Jordanian refugees on Jan. 10 , but reopened it on Jan. 18 following renewed promises of UN aid to help with the costs of accommodating refugees from Kuwait and Iraq . |
| 16 | laughing up their sleeves , ca n't even bloody sell anything , but sell them at a profit . |
| 17 | Actually utilise our space not necessarily for the public which obviously is difficult to get to the disabled people etc but using it for something like that . |
| 18 | True , he 'd had that weird feeling in the hall , but seeing her on the landing a moment ago had been no illusion . |
| 19 | But seeing him for the first time was like when you buy a new make of car you never noticed that kind before , then you realise they 're all over the place . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Payment of Wages Act allows employers to make it a condition of employment that new employees should be paid through a bank , but prohibits them from doing this with existing employees ( though of course individual existing employees can agree voluntarily to accept bank-account payment ) . |
| 22 | And the soldiers muttered to one another as they limped and splashed back towards England that the black friars had not only sent the terror , but withdrawn it from them as soon as they turned back , and the devil their master could call it up again in an instant if they so much as looked over their shoulders . |
| 23 | She had forgotten about her tea caddy and the friendly shopkeeper in Sunningdale and she had soon forgotten about the kindness of young people and was reminiscing about the days when she was not alone at the villa but shared it with seven others . |
| 24 | This situation needs resolution , but to compare it with the rape of Kuwait hardly strengthens your argument against Saddam . |
| 25 | He did not want to be bothered with the problems she encountered , with water that seemed brackish or ceilings that had cracked — they were her concerns and , as she complained in a letter to Minnie : — I am driven to distraction with those household concerns with which you will be familiar Minnie but then in your case you have but to report them for them to be seen to by the master who will instruct the butler to bring in workmen and I am obliged to go out and seek my own help which is no easy thing . |
| 26 | I have a lot of fond memories of Lotus and the people there , but bringing them to Chrysler , I never considered it . |
| 27 | Not finding anything among the existing styles to which she was exposed , she created her own , dedicating it to the Buddhist nun who had taught her , but naming it after herself . |
| 28 | ‘ The Parliamentary system is n't there to give people a say in how the country is run but to delude them into thinking they have some power . |
| 29 | The group did not exercise its rights but sold them to a third party for £200,000 . |
| 30 | Alexander served her well but failed her by not producing an heir when he married that French hussy . ’ |