Example sentences of "but [noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the morning , Punch brought a letter from Trelorne , whose contents Aunt Emily did not reveal , but Alexandra found her in the drawing-room after luncheon . |
| 2 | She took a playful swipe at his face , but Harvey caught it on the flat of his hand , then she struck at him with the palm of the other hand and they did a pat-a-cake routine . |
| 3 | He looked full of himself but Cameron steered him across the street into the privacy of his store before he would let him talk . |
| 4 | ‘ It does n't matter , ’ she muttered , and turned away , but Penry seized her by the waist and turned her to face him . |
| 5 | You 're a fool as well as surly , ’ said the boy , and stuck his neat , short nose in the air and bounced up from the table in dudgeon , but Harry caught him by the sleeve . |
| 6 | She made to rise , but Harry grabbed her by the wrists and she subsided back onto the bed with a sharp cry of pain . |
| 7 | It was bad enough having to admit that the APT train project was a dead duck , but BR shot itself in the foot and provided the cynical national media with a field day by selling off some of the vehicles to a Sheffield scrapyard . |
| 8 | But Huxley said nothing about the process that might have led one branch of the primate order to develop the upright posture and the enlarged brain that are the hallmarks of the human race . |
| 9 | Cranston angrily stepped forward but Athelstan caught him by the sleeve . |
| 10 | The left side of his face , in the region of the jaw articulation , looked at first sight as though it had been smashed by a blow , but Wycliffe recognised it as the wound of exit of a bullet which had probably ricochetted inside the skull . |
| 11 | Berlioz would have shouted a protest there and then , but Plantade registered his with the Courrier des spectacles : ‘ masterpieces should be left alone ’ . |
| 12 | But Larry saw nothing except the tap dripping in the bathroom and the rug missing from the doorway and the absence of a cat-flap and his own image , his own image everywhere . |
| 13 | She met Mr Carter , and married him , thinking he 'd be a good father for the children , but Hayley hated him from the start . |
| 14 | They left the flat but Meehan chased them down the road , shouting he was going to get a gun . |
| 15 | bella was of the opinion that Randall had done them all an immense favour by dying when he did , but Louise regarded it as the greatest of all his cruelties . |
| 16 | Larsen/Jensen won in K2 from the two British crews but Smith/Savage pushed them to the line . |
| 17 | Iris opened her mouth to contradict , but Melissa nudged her under the table . |