Example sentences of "but [vb past] [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 | The same issue as in L.0.2 , but studied now at a local level i.e. |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He made a show of pursuit , but gave up at the first intersection , returning to Jude breathless . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |