Example sentences of "but [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They set off to raid each other on the same night , but passed somehow in the darkness . |
| 2 | For example , in feudal society products were not ‘ of themselves ’ the property of the ruling class , but became so in the light of various political practices . |
| 3 | Round and round in her head had gone the memory of the evening , undoubtedly the most magical evening of her life , but tarnished now by the memory of how it had ended , with Guido 's crude brush-off and her belated realisation that he was in love with someone else . |
| 4 | When most people possessed no clocks or watches but lived more in the countryside than they do today , they took far more note than we do of the various timings associated with plants and animals . |
| 5 | He did n't reply , but made straight for the Chesterfield . |
| 6 | Late in 1743 a messenger was sent to alert James in Rome , and at dawn on 9 January 1744 Charles left the Palazzo Muti in Rome with his brother Henry , who was to serve as a decoy , on the pretence of a hunting trip , but made off to the north , leaving Henry to send off to Rome presents of wild geese supposedly from Charles . |
| 7 | We do n't know in which direction , but made off from the scene . |
| 8 | They should have done much better as they dominated for long spells , but failed miserably in the art of scoring . |
| 9 | But ruled out of the squad at the moment are Liverpool 's Ronnie Whelan , Sheffield Wednesday 's John Sheridan and Celtic 's Tommy Coyne . |
| 10 | ‘ Sinead did n't go to the door but crept up to the window . |
| 11 | Sediment accumulation rates decreased in the north ( 58.024.5gm -2 yr -1 ) and central basins ( 44.416.6gm -2 yr -1 ) , but changed little in the south basin ( 41.715.1gm -2 yr -1 ) . |
| 12 | Work on the former group has shown that in the century between 1341 and 1440 , and more markedly in the last three-quarters of this period , the replacement rate for males was clearly below one , but rose sharply by the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ( 75 , p.27 ) . |
| 13 | The JMCs had no power of their own , except persuasion , but reported directly to the State Security Council ( SSC ) , formerly presided over by P. W. Botha , which was considered by some to have become the de facto government where the real decisions affecting the country were taken . |
| 14 | In his lecture ‘ Le Cubisme écartelé ’ given at the Section d'Or on 11 October and later added to Les Peintres Cubistes when the book was already in proof , Apollinaire divided Cubism into four categories , Orphism being the most advanced : ‘ It is the art of painting new harmonies out of elements borrowed not from visual reality but created entirely by the artist and endowed by him with a powerful presence . |
| 15 | The camps are rooted in the history of the state , but dedicated also to the present , and will be a part too of the future . |
| 16 | Azmaveth did not argue but knelt down on the floor by the bed and laid out the silk square in front of her . |
| 17 | The European Council reaffirmed its willingness to help the Soviet Union but referred back to the Commission the task of submitting before the next Council meeting proposals for decisions to be taken , and also asked it to draw up a plan for a major commercial , scientific and technical co-operation agreement with the Soviet Union . |
| 18 | Julie did n't answer , but drove on towards the traffic lights , glancing again in the rear-view mirror . |
| 19 | Disappointingly , the policemen took no notice of the blood , but drove off in the direction the robbers had taken , with what result I can not say . |
| 20 | Henderson did get a little help from his friends , in particular a massive 484ft third-inning home run from Jose Canseco on Saturday that came within 13 rows of hitting the roof of the SkyDome but dropped instead into the hands of a surprised Toronto fan . |
| 21 | Lucie cursed , but dropped down from the cart seat and came to stand behind Gabriel , side-on to the door , snatching sidelong glances at the thing he did not want to see . |
| 22 | By 223 votes to 110 ( Government majority 113 ) peers rejected an Opposition amendment to the Companies Bill , originally passed by the Lords but rejected later in the Commons . |
| 23 | ‘ We can take something from this game and be positive that we were down but came away with the point . |
| 24 | He failed to find a seat at the next general election , but came in for the family borough a few weeks later , and acted as teller against his patron 's impeachment . |
| 25 | Known as the District 's ‘ Sabine Women ’ these young graduates not only held together the framework of the District 's organisation in the counties throughout the war , but added substantially to the number of courses provided by the District and helped to establish new WEA branches and centres among the civilian population . |
| 26 | Significantly , however , this ritual was not allowed to take place within the sacred precincts : the animal was burned whole ‘ outside the camp ’ , its blood was not offered at the altar but burned along with the carcass , and the officiating priest was required to cleanse himself after the sacrifice . |
| 27 | His basic salary as Naval Officer was only $800 a year which was not high for the importance of his position but compared favourably with the $180 a year he had received as an army Captain 3 years earlier . |
| 28 | The script they came up with was trendy and repetitive , rather naive but tuned directly to the youth of the moment . |
| 29 | PC Hay went to investigate but raced back to the patrol car after receiving a call for help from Sgt Forth over his pocket radio . |
| 30 | These were to be administered by the association concerned but financed largely by the government , supplemented in many cases from private sources . |