Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four man circle , pictured above , identified that excess clay was falling not into the trucks beneath each machine but on to the floor . |
| 2 | He 'd scattered a few items around the place so that anybody looking in through the window would get the impression that the owner was in residence but out for the day or the evening : a box of tissues and some magazines in the main room , a half-empty bottle of fresh milk and some crockery draining in the kitchen . |
| 3 | It was infinitely more unnerving than that though , for they were not in a sealed room but out in the open , with the air rent with cries from the crowd : screams of naked terror and prayers for deliverance . |
| 4 | Fräulein was not in her room but down at the party . |
| 5 | In her place I would have been not only up the wall but out of the door ! |
| 6 | And , because they will have arisen not out of planning but out of the story you are telling , almost certainly each new development will have that necessary quality of being a worse trouble for your heroine until the final calamity at the end . |
| 7 | The surgery was equipped with the usual furniture but out of the best catalogue : desk and swivel chair for the doctor , a couple of hygienic-looking chairs for patient and friend , drugs and instrument cabinet , couch , wash basin , and glass-fronted bookcase . |
| 8 | Once out of sight it speeded up , heading not for the crematorium but back to the mortuary . |
| 9 | They turned through the narrow Kendal Dyke into a lovely wilderness of reeds and water , sailed from one to another of the posts that mark the channel , came to a signpost standing not on land but out in the middle of the Sounds , read ‘ to Horsey ’ on one side of it , reached away through Meadow Dyke , so narrow that they could easily have jumped ashore , and came at last to the open Mere . |
| 10 | The Gallery is an independent trust but up to the present its trustees have been the College Governors of Dulwich College , acting as trustees of the Picture Gallery . |
| 11 | The lights came up and we were not in that magic world beyond the screen but back in the familiar tawdry surroundings of Sneinton , Notts . |