Example sentences of "but it [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But it stopped at the sky .
2 But it stopped at the neck , and its body did not appear .
3 But it did at the time appear rather a , the last thing
4 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 .
5 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 .
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