Example sentences of "but [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Area fisheries officer Vaughan Lewis said : ‘ The Wye has a healthy trout population but silting up of the river bed can be a problem . |
| 2 | She quickly changed her position , so that she was no longer facing him but looking out towards the lake . |
| 3 | But looking out of the window he saw the hills again . |
| 4 | But looking down at the words now , it did not appear so simple . |
| 5 | But looking back to the principles of Beveridge 's plan for welfare , one of the main conditions which the originators made , in order that a workable system might evolve , was that reasonably full employment be maintained . |
| 6 | But pushing down on the legs stops them from straightening ; the legs will then have to work five times harder in order to compensate . |
| 7 | At the age of 12 , her life appears so carefree , but growing up in the railway town sees her family growing apart . |
| 8 | But hurrying back into the Chamber proved that the camera does not entirely lie . |
| 9 | But going down to The Bay were n't no good for us . |
| 10 | So use the normal rules on the approach side for those , I E roundabout rules , but going back onto the signals again , on roundabouts like that do n't give unnecessary signals . |
| 11 | But going back to the influence of Hawaiian music — would the bottleneck blues style ever have happened without it ? |
| 12 | She 'd say they 've just had a restaurant there , that would n't be so bad as a take away But getting back to the finances , I mean the Two Hundred Club over the years it has been in operation , I mean with what it gets this , what they get this year , supposing it 's not a thousand , supposing eight hundred , it might even be about eight thousand might n't it ? |
| 13 | But getting back to The Case is Altered : I supposed that if the people got browned off , as we call it , they 'd have a settin' in . |
| 14 | Under his direction , the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee maintained its traditional line that O'Neill was not responding to the legitimate demands of a disadvantaged section of the population , but giving in to the demands of rebels who would never be satisfied with anything less than the destruction of Northern Ireland . |
| 15 | Then he said , not looking directly at Simon , but staring out onto the waters that lapped the roots of the trees : ‘ Is the Lion in the forest ? ’ |
| 16 | Sir Henry Curtis perched upon a rock bleeding from a dozen wounds but fighting on with the remnant of the Greys against the hordes of Twala was too heroic . |
| 17 | But sitting up in the bedroom looking down towards the river , she was asking herself more often of late whether meat and clothing were all there was to life . |
| 18 | When he clutched the torn skin of his buttocks , she tickled his belly , and soon the boy-who-was-shaman was whooping with anger , but fleeing back towards the hill , to the mortuary house and the safety of his bones . |