Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I braced myself for the explosion but luckily it went between the wheels . |
| 2 | The tree was so big that , if it had fallen into the clearing , it would have flattened most of the gathering , but luckily it went in the other direction , toppling over the cliffside . |
| 3 | As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life . |
| 4 | She went steadily on , from foothold to foothold , only stopping to peel off her glove now and then and push a finger into the wet fringed mouth of a sea-anemone , but mostly she concentrated on the next step , the next handhold , with the sea on one side of her , the swell of grassy land the other . |
| 5 | But somewhere it says about the amount it cost , but I mean if must be like that . |
| 6 | It 's long and straight and takes for ever but eventually we get to the outskirts of Newbury . |
| 7 | Next to the eastern granary the aqueduct , which no doubt had served the successive forts , was provided with a new channel and distribution tanks ; the source of water is unknown but presumably it lay on the higher ground to the north of Hadrian 's Wall . |
| 8 | But so I sat in the Barbican up up at the around at the same level as the Royal Festival . |
| 9 | My reaction probably seems polite and restrained , but inside I explode with the feelings voiced by Hugh Macdiarmid : ‘ Scotland , small ? |
| 10 | I did not notice where I was walking , but soon I came to the station . |
| 11 | E. People have some choice of where to shop , but normally they go to the nearest place which has the type of goods they want . |
| 12 | Tomorrow we 'll have exclusive pictures of the RV8 on the road , but tonight we look at the background to the car that refused to die . |
| 13 | She was persuaded to do this , some tactful excuse having been found ; but finally it appeared in the year of her death , and her last letter to me acknowledged it . |
| 14 | But once we progress beyond the formation of a contract to its enforcement , a difficulty in reconciling liberalism with the law of contracts emerges . |
| 15 | ‘ We were sticking our necks out further and further but once we got to the South Col we had the same chance to get to the top as if we had 20 Sherpas helping and a brick-built house up there , ’ said Harry . |
| 16 | The same is probably true of breach of contract but once we move outside the area of wrongs which are civilly actionable in damages the law becomes more uncertain . |
| 17 | At the general level there is indeed already a wide consensus that managing schools in the future will be different — but once we move from the most general to more specific views , there is considerable and very important diversity as to the nature of those changes . |
| 18 | But once we allow for the shuffling of genes , there is a whole new set of possibilities . |
| 19 | But once I got to the hospital and after the operation the doctor reassured me it was a straightforward and took forty-five minutes . |
| 20 | In 1334 he was captured and ransomed by the Scots , gaining his freedom in time to fight in Edward III 's major Scottish campaign of 1335 ; but thereafter he shared in the general decline of English fortunes and interest in Scotland . |
| 21 | Her eyelids flipped open , and the world was hard-edged , dull and ugly , and so big , so big it squashed the tiny meanings out of sight but still they hovered on the borders of her mental vision and she would have dreamt her way back into that fae¨rie ether but a harsh voice slurred a saw of sound at her . |
| 22 | Taking her arm , he slowed his pace a little , but still he moved through the darkness with the absolute confidence of some night creature . |
| 23 | But usually we think of the early idea-seeking interview as being with a non-expert , an ‘ ordinary ’ person who does not have any particular consultant status . |
| 24 | But later I returned to the subject . |
| 25 | It was an extra cost but also I learned in the end like the top earners do er and I guess I was mister average because I was coming in to do this job not that one , erm I I decided or worked out that I could do two or three deals in a day between a certain hour . |
| 26 | From that point onward the story is a bonus but overall you read for the quality of language and the quality of seeing rather than the material . |
| 27 | The police were slow to realize that there was trouble , but now they moved into the crowd , attempting to find the troublemakers . |
| 28 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 29 | The speed of the train in Queen Victoria 's time was , by her own wish , kept down to about 36 miles an hour , but now it travels at the line speed . |
| 30 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |