Example sentences of "but it [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of this necessarily involved fighting between French and British , but it came at a time when the British Company was revising its policy of relying on the Moghul Emperor and on the successes of Englishmen outside India to protect its position . |
| 2 | But it stopped at the sky . |
| 3 | But it stopped at the neck , and its body did not appear . |
| 4 | But it did at the time appear rather a , the last thing |
| 5 | But it emerged at the meeting , held in Yokohama , Japan , that only seven of its 47 member governments had prepared strategies for meeting this target . |
| 6 | It 's a very funny joke , but it works at the expense of treating her like a child , which is not at all what the novel usually intends . |