Example sentences of "but [subord] [pron] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment this innovatory scheme was still at the planning stage , but once it got off the ground I could n't fail to gross a minimum of fifty thou in the first year of operation , after which the sky was the limit . |
| 2 | But although they lived as the only intellectual representatives of their own language in so small a place as Rapallo , they were not destined to decrease each other 's mental loneliness . |
| 3 | If only Silas had been there she could have consulted him , but although she looked along the corridor and outside there was no sign of him . |
| 4 | But although he smiled in the face of the direst provocation , underneath he was as determined as Ricky to go to ten . |
| 5 | But if we asked about the history of the appearance of characters then the answer is ‘ yes ’ . |
| 6 | The son was cross ; but if he thought of the possibility of keeping his own salary for himself , he never voiced it . |
| 7 | But if you thought about the order that you test , then , if something does n't work , you may only have to go back a few steps and re-test . |
| 8 | But if you went over the hill , after school time , then you were in for a fairly rough time the other end , you were challenged and all sorts of things . |
| 9 | Also I think you 'd find that the erm er although , now I 'm suggesting you do this , but if you went through the Independent and you counted the erm number of different words the total vocabulary , I think you 'd find it 's many many many many many many many times bigger than the |
| 10 | But if you went in the horse box on your single you 'd be all day getting there . |
| 11 | But if you crossed to the wrong post there was a devil of an arguament because someone ended up with only half a strip |
| 12 | But if it came to the point where he thought he had nothing to lose , I do n't know what he would do . ’ |
| 13 | If it was in the ‘ MEDIEVAL HISTORY ’ section it was near the end of March , but if it fell in the ‘ TRAVEL ’ section , then it was probably September . |
| 14 | There was a good bed along one side of the small , square room , a bench and a heavy table , even a brazier ; and most wonderful of all , there was a high window , narrow and barred and unshuttered , but if it let in the wind , it let in the light and the sun , too . |
| 15 | Forbes was thus a contemporary of Darwin and Huxley ; but because he died at the height of his powers just five years before the Origin of Species was published , and because despite his time in Paris he remained an outdoor natural historian having little temptation towards laboratory-based physiology , his work was incomplete and soon seemed obsolete . |
| 16 | He left after three years without a degree , not from any lack of ability but because he selected from the course only those subjects — analytical and applied chemistry — which appealed to him . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most significant intellectual advance of the mid-20th century was indeed made by Karl Popper , not because he provided any kind of method for scientists to pursue ( as he decidedly did not ) but because he showed for the first time in formal philosophy , that science is inescapably a human activity , and that if its underlying human-ness is ever shelved it is only temporarily , and for convenience , to ameliorate human frailty . |
| 18 | I had always had difficulty with the idea of a long-bearded god sitting on a throne on high , but because it came in the form it did , as an energy , I had no difficulty with it … |
| 19 | Even the Darwinian theory of evolution was impressive , not because the concept of evolution was new — it had been familiar for decades — but because it provided for the first time a satisfactory explanatory model for the origin of species , and did so in terms which were entirely familiar even to non-scientists , since they echoed the most familiar concept of the liberal economy , competition . |
| 20 | They did notice that , contrary to his usual custom , he showered at the end of the morning 's gym classes ; but since he put on the same grubby and sweaty old clothes he had come in , that was practically a wasted gesture . |
| 21 | Behind the HQ building , to the right of what Waters called the Paddock but before you got to the Wood , was a small black circle quite close to the boundary fence . |
| 22 | But before I got to the end of it I burst into tears . |
| 23 | But before he got to the newsagent 's he met , coming out of Fawley Road with a small boy and smaller girl , his first cousin once removed , Tina Darne . |
| 24 | But whether he went across the seas or not he could not pass off his own deeds under Robert 's name . |
| 25 | But after they returned to the gate of 888 , a guard said to Rilla , very quietly : ‘ Bel is dead . |
| 26 | Eva tolerated them since they paid for Dad 's thoughts and therefore her dinner , but when they went into the bedroom to chant I heard her say to Dad , as she put on her yellow silk blouse for that brilliant evening , ‘ The future should n't contain too much of the past . ’ |
| 27 | They all laughed and it helped to relieve the tension , but when they returned to the occupational health centre , far from being criticised for their performance , they heard only praise and found they were being treated as heroes . |
| 28 | But when they came to the Grove , they stopped and hung back . |
| 29 | But when they got to the bottom of the Grove they were scared a little . |
| 30 | Notts in this first half are going to be as they like to be , attacking the Kop end , a Kop end which is utterly deserted because Pisa have n't brought any fans with them but they 've brought a very large following of journalists , and as I said in the initial two-way with Martin , there has been a language barrier between them and me , but when they pointed to the weather and all shivered together , I knew precisely what they meant . |