Example sentences of "but it [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin Foyle sent over the perfect cross , Lee Nogan got above the Spurs defence , he got his ball head to the ball , but it went over the cross bar and the chance had gone . |
| 2 | It was attracted to the Griffiths proposals because of their potential for promoting private services , but it went against the grain to leave local authorities with so much power , and it was this dilemma which caused the considerable delay in the government 's response to Griffiths . |
| 3 | In her job she was accustomed to boosting fragile egos and bolstering shaky morales , but it went against the grain to tell outright lies . |
| 4 | They were 132 for 6 at the close and it was clearly time to pray for rain ; but it came on the rest day by mistake , and although Emburey and Downton battled for a while , the end was not long delayed . |
| 5 | Well I do n't know what make it was but it came from the house , the furnishing company of Union Street , Plymouth I ca n't remember the shop . |
| 6 | He was reluctant but it came in the end : ‘ I 've been thinking ; if Alfie really was coming here it 's possible he would have taken the short cut like we did when we were boys . |
| 7 | But it got to the stage that I dreaded seeing Mr B 's smiling face in the press box at Blues games , as it was sure to mean another gloom and doom match report in the ‘ Ulster ’ that night . |
| 8 | But it got to the stage where I could n't enjoy the game because someone was always rubbing my head and saying ‘ How are you doing , Sinbad ? ’ ' |
| 9 | He hit the ball left to right and he shaped it on the left-hand side on a sand dune , but it dropped in the dune on top of a hillock . |
| 10 | But it struck with the speed of an attacking snake . |
| 11 | Folly cast her eye down the column of names , but it ran off the bottom of the page and she had to turn over . |
| 12 | Mana put a huge amount of money into their boot and binding , but it flopped in the market . |
| 13 | We took a tripod , but it fell into the sea shortly after our arrival , and thereafter twisted on its axis with the serenity of a chain saw . |
| 14 | The expedition was a military failure , but it led to the treaty of Brétigny of May 1360 , which gave Edward the lands ceded to him in 1358 with a ransom reduced to 3,000,000 gold crowns . |
| 15 | Exhibiting in his local village of Stoodleigh in Devon was intended to be little more than a spring clean of his workshop for ceramicist Chris Speyer , but it led to the launch of Yerja Ceramics . |
| 16 | The small parish provided for its poor without frills ; but it provided on the basis of personal knowledge of immediate needs . " |
| 17 | Strabane 's Lynn McCool had a 12 foot putt to give herself and Eileen Rose Power victory over Julie Hall and Kirsty Speak but it stopped on the lip and the match was halved . |
| 18 | But it stopped at the sky . |
| 19 | But it stopped at the neck , and its body did not appear . |
| 20 | But it did at the time appear rather a , the last thing |
| 21 | The oval dining table stood before the rear window , but it held in the middle a model of the house on a low plinth as if it were a museum exhibit , and the eight high-backed dining chairs had been set back against the walls . |
| 22 | The second was a heart shot , but it turned on the breastbone . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | At first I thought it was some ague but it proved to the Sweating Sickness . |
| 25 | The door was wide open , but it opened towards the harpsichord , and the end of one of the bookshelves blocked the view through the crack . |