Example sentences of "but [subord] [pron] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But when they arrived at the meeting it was Oldfield who was wearing Branson 's horn-rimmed spectacles , riffling papers in his briefcase and doing his best to look brisk and businesslike , while Branson gesticulated in a parody of artistic eccentricity . |
| 3 | As the somewhat recalcitrant and irascible member of the famous ‘ What 's My Line ’ panel broadcast on BBC television for years , Gilbert could be and was difficult , but when we met at the Coq d'Or Restaurant on Stratton Street , just off Piccadilly , he was the soul of charm . |
| 4 | But when we looked at the location , our feeling was that it was close to the City and there were professional couples living nearby . |
| 5 | But when we looked at the SVQ in more detail , we found that the underpinning skills and knowledge required would need some extra attention . |
| 6 | HP figures Sun tried its damnedest to come up with a full-featured workstation under $5,000 but when it looked at the margins , dumbed down the box to create the Classic . |
| 7 | But when it looked at the boys , Edwardian England was invariably moved . |
| 8 | But when I looked at the date , my father could only have been about twelve year old you see , when these letters were written so it must have been my grandfather writing to Coventry and Birmingham for parts for the penny farthing bicycles which he worked on . |
| 9 | But when I arrived at The St Chad 's Deanery Day for Stockport and discovered there was a group of 20 people aged from ten up to 19 , I thought that things could n't be so bad after all . |
| 10 | Mr Wormwood did n't notice anything when he put the hat on , but when he arrived at the garage he could n't get it off . |
| 11 | But when she looked at the mirror again the stain of spectacles was still there and she had to wipe it off with a cloth so that Larry would not see . |
| 12 | But when she looked at the sides of the hole , she could see cupboards and books and pictures on the walls . |
| 13 | But when she arrived at the hotel , Miss Crossland , 27 , claimed she ‘ was fobbed off all morning waiting for the cheque ’ . |
| 14 | He took her in his car up to one of the few routes over the Apennines , but when she arrived at the pass , the Passo della Cisa , and saw the undulating , never-ending hills , she panicked . |
| 15 | The aim of the course is to provide advice and information but as I said at the beginning to get you talking about it . |
| 16 | erm disappointed , but as I said at the beginning it was almost inevitable , erm with the results of the Westgate by-election , which were very disappointing . |
| 17 | But as I hinted at the start , sound per se can not be ignored . |
| 18 | When he had left Merrill breathed a sigh of relief , but as she sat at the dressing-table removing her make-up something inside her wept . |
| 19 | He stopped , coughing harshly , but as he sipped at the medicine Master Beaton held to his lips he was still grinning . |