Example sentences of "but [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stabled their horses and did not enter the tavern but passed into a pleasant garden beyond . |
| 2 | But in the days immediately after the General Election defeat , Mr Smith not only launched his bid but got into an impregnable position thanks to his support from the big unions . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He did not hit a crisp drive but recovered with an excellent three wood which enabled him to secure a birdie four to Frost 's par . |
| 5 | One example might be where a newborn child developed an infection requiring special care , but recovered in a few days . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Alex was made a ward of court but lived with the Demetrious . |
| 8 | Heart experts never tire of pointing out that Winston Churchill started life as a frail premature baby , went on to smoke , drink heavily and eat to the point of obesity , but lived to a great age , whereas Nathan Pritikin , inventor of the Pritikin diet , died a premature death despite being obsessed with health . |
| 9 | A singer of poignant songs , Rikoran was born near Mukden in Manchuria in 1920 of Japanese parents , but lived as a young girl with a Chinese family . |
| 10 | He had married Jemima Mott in 1816 but lived as a childless widower from 1829 after the death of his wife . |
| 11 | She did not want to go , but lived in an unmodernised house with a coal fire as the main source of heat . |
| 12 | The case concerned the wife of a civil servant who worked in Northern Ireland but lived in the Irish Republic . |
| 13 | The problems were worsened by corruption , as in the notorious Malaysian case when a major highway contract was awarded to a construction company of limited experience , but owned by the ruling political party . |
| 14 | Mrs Thatcher , however , claimed that the riots had nothing to do with unemployment and deprivation , but arose as a direct consequence of a lack of discipline within the family and in the schools . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But research in America has suggested very strongly that it 's actually a special sex fluid , similar to a secretion which is ejaculated from a man 's prostate gland , but produced by a sensitive structure near the famous G-spot . |
| 17 | They slowed to give themselves a respite but realized in the succeeding moment that they had run into a dead end . |
| 18 | It seems that they are not gods exactly , but made of the same stuff as gods . |
| 19 | They failed in the former endeavour but succeeded in the latter . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This shows the technique behind the ringing open string scale fingerings that we looked at last month , but applied to a short musical piece . |
| 22 | The pain is the price of freedom : not just freedom in a spiritual kingdom after death , but realised in an inner freedom to love . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A passer-by noticed the suspicious object strapped underneath the vehicle as it drove out of a car park last night , but failed in a desperate attempt to alert the driver . |
| 25 | Mr Brind and other journalists sought judicial review to challenge the directives , but failed before the Divisional Court [ Guardian Law Report : May 27 , 1989 ] . |
| 26 | Mona and Charity exchanged expressions of incomprehension but pounced on the only word they could understand . |
| 27 | On Oct. 17 Habyarimana had agreed to allow all refugees to return to Rwanda , but argued for a regional conference to discuss reintegration problems . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And the singing was not in his head , but rose from the cowled , slow-moving figures who edged the bright file with their tapers . |
| 30 | Najibullah 's offer was welcomed by the Pakistan government but spurned by the hardline mujaheddin groups . |