Example sentences of "but [vb past] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The name comes from the old Norse word meaning ‘ to gush ’ and was not only given to the township nearby , but got into the English language as a descriptive name for any jet of water . |
| 2 | The poster at the end of the tunnel was so large and so perfectly lit that it seemed to O , looking up at it suddenly , that the tunnel did not end in a wall , in fact did not end at all , but led to the green fields of France . |
| 3 | The case concerned the wife of a civil servant who worked in Northern Ireland but lived in the Irish Republic . |
| 4 | All three are part of one pattern , defined by Christ , but experienced within the penitential life of the meditator : no resurrection without death , no joy without sorrow , no feeling of the presence of love without sometimes consciousness of its absence , and all three comings relate to an overcoming of sin . |
| 5 | They slowed to give themselves a respite but realized in the succeeding moment that they had run into a dead end . |
| 6 | It seems that they are not gods exactly , but made of the same stuff as gods . |
| 7 | He deserves his reputation for radicalism — he has the softness of a cerebral bop guitarist like Jim Hall but coupled with the sudden fire of Jimmy Hendrix . |
| 8 | He said he did not want to involve British troops and planes in action , but admitted for the first time that it was a possibility . |
| 9 | Mr Brind and other journalists sought judicial review to challenge the directives , but failed before the Divisional Court [ Guardian Law Report : May 27 , 1989 ] . |
| 10 | Mona and Charity exchanged expressions of incomprehension but pounced on the only word they could understand . |
| 11 | PAV stressed its commitment to extensive devolution of powers from the federal to the republican governments , but argued for the federal government to retain strong powers for the economic good of the country and to maintain Czech-Slovak co-operation . |
| 12 | Najibullah 's offer was welcomed by the Pakistan government but spurned by the hardline mujaheddin groups . |
| 13 | Black pretended not to overhear , but mused at the private world of women and the bond that had formed between the two . |
| 14 | Messrs Hoult and Cowan also went through the report with Mr Barnes but concentrated on the financial crisis , rather than mentioning fraud and malpractice , a decision which Bingham finds ‘ surprising and unfortunate ’ . |
| 15 | For example , the defences were firmly dated to the reign of Hadrian , although Antonine pottery was found in the rampart , but dismissed with the remarkable statement ‘ the overwhelming pre-Antonine character of the mass of associated pottery suggests the earlier , rather than the later of Dr Oswald 's limiting date for the exceptional sherd ’ , i.e. AD 130 — 50 . |
| 16 | The German conjunctions used to signal this structure ( Einerseits ‘ on the one hand ’ , aber … andererseits ‘ but on the other hand ’ ) are more transparent than the mixture of causal Because and adversative But used in the English text . |
| 17 | That night in the pub I did n't sit at the same table as the others but moved into the other bar with my pint and newspaper . |
| 18 | Pigeons used to the northern hemisphere but moved to the southern hemisphere likewise orient with the predicted 180° error at noon . |
| 19 | Barbarossa was crowned Emperor in Saint Peter 's Basilica , declaring that the Pope merely confirmed his existing right to imperial power , but opposed by the Roman citizens and surrounding Italian territories . |
| 20 | It had a title which was not the most inspiring one I had heard in what I presumed to be my life , but told of the one man who had a great impression on me . |
| 21 | Yes they just had one maybe one melodeon or one fiddle , but played for the whole dance and you could hear it from end to end of the hall . |
| 22 | SAM Torrance finished three shots ahead of his nearest challenger after the third round of the Kronenbourg Open at Salo but came off the last green a disappointed man . |
| 23 | Attacked as irresponsible by the conservative opposition but welcomed by the Australian Council of Trade Unions which pledged to contain wage pressure , the programme marked a return towards the ALP 's traditional Keynesianism after years of economic liberalization and rationalization begun in 1983 when Keating was Treasurer under Hawke . |
| 24 | Clarkson himself , his wife and old associates such as William Smith and Henry Brougham did not rest on the charge of sectarian and party spirit but reverted to the earlier image of the antislavery movement as effectively integrating the diverse roles of individuals and groups into a successful unity . |
| 25 | Modules in this category are not formatted into the next volume opened but disregarded until the next time hard copy format is run . |
| 26 | God were good , but hampered by the very technology that is supposed to help them get their message across . |
| 27 | As for the ROK , it was divided politically but dominated by the intransigent Syngman Rhee . |
| 28 | It was large , but dominated by the huge form of a dark blue Rolls-Royce . |
| 29 | She did not stay there long , but retreated from the fierce sun to the stern-cabin that she would be sharing with Ellen . |
| 30 | The consultants saw a steady state of landing for demersal ( white ) fish and nephrops ( prawns ) , but commented on the poor state of premises around the fish quay . |