Example sentences of "but [verb] [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then gasped , and started to laugh as though Father Devlin had made a joke , but ceased abruptly at the stern look on Father Devlin 's face . |
| 2 | Great torque , good mid-range power , but needs more at the top end . |
| 3 | But looking purely at the outside bit , If they 'd have had some whitewash on I think they 'd have looked better . |
| 4 | The same issue as in L.0.2 , but studied now at a local level i.e. |
| 5 | The Red Scissortail has a prettily marked and coloured tail , but look also at the attractive scale patterning of the upper body . |
| 6 | You may object that I 'm only describing the kind of action that occurs in whodunnit stories — but look again at the short fictions that have moved you . |
| 7 | The three men stood together for some time while the long-faced sheep ambled around them , sometimes coming close to examine them but scuttering away at the slightest of their movements , sending a ripple of bells through the whole flock . |
| 8 | He did n't look at the boy but stared instead at a potted palm withering in its tub beside the grand piano on the rostrum . |
| 9 | He made a show of pursuit , but gave up at the first intersection , returning to Jude breathless . |
| 10 | This latter cloud rolled swiftly down towards St Pierre , hugging the ground , but extending upwards at the same time , so that it was almost as high as it was long . |
| 11 | Page had been forced into the play-off after dropping a shot at the ninth , his last hole , but edged home at the second extra hole with a par three after Maguire 's ball had landed in heavy rough at the back of the green . |
| 12 | Some of the last-gasp attempts to save the Nationalist governments that were considered in Washington — with the wilder arpeggios such as encouraging the fragmentation of China or even , apparently , a series of punitive air strikes against the Chinese communists ( not to mention the sheer fantasy of creating ten new Chinese armies in six months ) — originated in the Far Eastern division of the State Department , and in fact the Administration , says Blum , had come close to re-intervention in the Chinese civil war on the mainland , but backed away at the last minute when it discovered that there was no viable force left to support . |