Example sentences of "but [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once they had turned the Mount , with the full span of the ice shining before them , the two men gathered pace , at once in harmony and contention , drawing vigour from the presence of the young woman between them , who cried out , not in fear but encouraging them on to greater exertions . |
| 2 | But I was kind of forced into that because it was only bass and guitar and I was trying to do as much rhythm as I could , but stab a few notes in here and there to make it sound like there was more than there really was . |
| 3 | She said nothing , but gazed at him with wide , terrified eyes , then almost involuntarily she made a small gesture with her hands to ward him off and he , taking it as a token of reciprocal feeling , stepped forward and took her in his arms . |
| 4 | Not only then is subcontracting widely practised but the small firms are so dependent on a limited range of buyers that they have little alternative but to accommodate to tight kanban schedules . |
| 5 | What we have now had thrust upon us is a precedent to hasten death , not really to help the patient die with dignity but to accommodate the judgment of others that the patient 's life is no longer possessed of ‘ quality ’ . |
| 6 | But organizing and overseeing Little Tuckett Church Fête had lowered her resistance . |
| 7 | But organizing a world tour that will take in places like Harare , Delhi and São Paulo as well as the normal rich-world rock centres is a major feat . |
| 8 | But ern we 'd stay with them all Saturday afternoon . |
| 9 | The increase was even felt to be too great : in 1964 , when British groups reached 212 , it was decided to slow down the growth in the UK — not to ‘ act upon the ephemeral enthusiasms of an odd individual ’ , but to go for quality . |
| 10 | But to go there was to enter another world . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , unofficial exports between neighbouring countries are likely to continue to increase , but to go largely unrecorded . |
| 12 | But to go back to the old ways ‘ would be a colossal mistake , ’ he declared . |
| 13 | Beecham said that any fool can conduct three concerts with an orchestra , but to go on improving is like going on a race track where it is possible to improve your time at first , but each new improvement involves great effort and often some danger . |
| 14 | Now Labour-controlled Bradford council has supported outline building proposals , leaving the Widdups little option but to go . |
| 15 | Mullins , badly bloodied , had little choice but to go off . |
| 16 | Travel for pleasure was almost unheard of until the nineteenth century when Robert Louis Stevenson wrote , ‘ For my part , I travel not to go anywhere , but to go . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | But to go to a strange woman and ask her … what would she have to ask her ? |
| 19 | That avenue was obviously closed to us and there was nothing for it but to go en masse to Jimmy Coutts and lay our case before him . |
| 20 | There was nothing for it but to go with him . |
| 21 | It was not a command to stay put , but to go and make disciples of all the nations . |
| 22 | This rationalism ( I use the word here in a much wider sense than suggested by ‘ rationalism ’ as opposed to ‘ empiricism ’ ) attempts not only to use reason as a tool but to go further and make reason guarantee itself . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Knowing what we know , do we have any other choice but to go there ? |
| 26 | What was Meh'Lindi 's whole purpose , what was her very life , but to go into perilous places , always to emerge alive ? |
| 27 | If firms exploit the escape clause , IG Metall may have little choice but to go along . |
| 28 | But to go to the other extreme and elevate people suffering from such abnormalities into a norm for society not only threatens society but is dangerous to the individuals themselves , since it excludes them from the consideration of help and treatment . |
| 29 | Work-people would not be expected to reason why , but to go on doing until they retired . |
| 30 | If , however , you find yourself carrying three or four such problems it seems clear that there is nothing for it but to go back and attack the first difficulties again . |