Example sentences of "but [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I won an essay competition in 1957 on " Why I was proud to be a citizen of Leeds " , organised by the Variety Club of Great Britain and the local evening paper , the big event in my London visit was not Buckingham Palace , nor having Norman Wisdom put his arm round me , but gazing at a skiffle group which had played in the 21's coffee bar with Tommy Steele . |
| 2 | So he has accepted an offer to drive the new Vector at Silverstone , but insists at the moment it is for this race only . |
| 3 | But to attend at the Home Office itself , and at the breakfast hour , was unusual , and the Foreign Office message had lacked explanation . |
| 4 | Everyone was drinking but scattered at the sight of Bill Sykes but this little girl went back on stage to finish her drink ! |
| 5 | The Doctor did n't stop , but shouted at the top of his voice for all to hear : |
| 6 | Cathy Gunn 's Medeva jumped £1 to nearly £3 but sagged at the close . |
| 7 | But looking at the diagram in Fig. 8.4 we can identify two general methods of keeping the search space small : |
| 8 | I 've heard from people who have visited Brussels that meetings were being cancelled because the British Delegation were not even members of the trade union , but looking at the structure of the works councils in the U K this is no wonder . |
| 9 | When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago . |
| 10 | Three and half hours , but looking at the time log , and it 'll say I was on there for an hour actually speaking on the phone . |
| 11 | Yasmin 's brother brought her to London from their home in Bradford for the day , but meeting at the tube station proved nearly impossible , as we each had only a telephone description of the other and had unfortunately arranged to meet the same Saturday as a huge poll tax march . |
| 12 | But but but look at the look . |
| 13 | But look at the scene in which Ludwitt comes back . |
| 14 | But look at the contrast on p81 , after Eddie has messed things up and made Catherine miserable — she says that he is a rat . |
| 15 | I would n't expect it to compete for the funnel-web spider ‘ small but deadly ’ award in the same way that a Mesa Boogie .22 could , but look at the price difference and you 'll appreciate why . |
| 16 | Borrow , said his partner Jim , borrow , but look at the price of borrowing . |
| 17 | ‘ But look at the way those bones are lying — it is n't natural . ’ |
| 18 | But look at the negotiation you did , what were you doing well , what were some of the things that you needed most strength . |
| 19 | They still call it melton ; but look at the difference : the heart has gone right out of the cloth . |
| 20 | True , Namibia was not a country when the 1991 World Cup preliminaries were held in Africa , but look at the challenge from Africa in the form of Zimbabwe . |
| 21 | Er they have well just the same as er some of these weight reducers. they 'll take the weight down but look at the side effects . |
| 22 | ‘ But look at the coachwork . |
| 23 | But to look at the problem from another angle , none of us lives in an environment free from synthetic chemicals — if we did , would we still suffer from those ‘ everyday symptoms ’ such as headaches ? |
| 24 | For example , children today are happy with metres and centimetres , but seem at a loss when faced with yards , feet and inches . |
| 25 | There were even imitation sheepskins , but worn at the risk of being considered a total nebbish . |
| 26 | He made to stand , but yelped at the stabbing in his knees . |
| 27 | We can but guess at the extent of the use of wood or leather containers for storage , cooking , serving , eating and drinking . |
| 28 | Concurrent lactation and pregnancy can result in delayed implantation ( i.e. embryos remain viable but blocked at the blastocyst stage during lactation ) . |
| 29 | But to start at the beginning . |
| 30 | In a sense Mao is , is adopting very much the position that he seems to have taken erm in nineteen forty five when he 's , he 's looking forward to land return but saying at the moment our policy of rent reduction , interest rate reduction will continue and at some stage we will then be able to move on into , to that reform . |