Example sentences of "but [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His funeral , held on May 23 , was attended by several thousand mourners , but passed off without violence . |
| 2 | The other two aircraft had been damaged but got off with bullet holes only . ’ |
| 3 | Gloucester had missed four penalties … but made up for things with an opening try … as full-back Martin Roberts picked up a tap penalty and bulldozed his way through to score … |
| 4 | Besides Macbeth and Lear Tolkien was probably struck by The Tempest and A Midsummer Night 's Dream ( the two ‘ fairy ’ plays and the two whose plots were not borrowed but made up by Shakespeare ) . |
| 5 | The items in this inventory were modelled on the list of symptoms used by psychiatrists to diagnose the borderline condition of ‘ schizotypal personality disorder ’ referred to earlier , but toned down for use with non-clinical populations . |
| 6 | The wind pressure on the rotors increased rapidly when they were rotated at full speed but levelled off at wind velocities beyond about 12 m/sec . |
| 7 | At the tiny station of Plowden an angry old woman asked whether we had permission to park our car in the yard , so I did n't add to her troubles by asking for a ticket to Ludlow , as I had intended , but drove on to Marshbrook where the porter was more kindly . ’ |
| 8 | This phenomenon occurred twice in the 1980s : Dee Marsh-Mickle Trafford was closed in 1984 but reopened mainly for steel coil traffic in 1986 , and Annbank-Mauchline closed in 1985 but came back into use as a Railfreight Coal asset in 1988 . |
| 9 | She kept a pretty green budgerigar called Peter , who once dropped dead in his cage but came back to life when Nanny gave him a few drops of gin squeezed from a wad of cotton-wool . |
| 10 | Barron retired in 1881 , but came out of retirement for a commission for the ninth Earl of Dysart at Welbeck Abbey in 1886 . |
| 11 | She could see him clearly : Jim as he was now , but filled out with confidence and new skills . |
| 12 | You were educated at Gordonstoun , but ducked out of university to take up flying . |
| 13 | An anti-homosexual initiative was passed in Colorado but turned down in Oregon ; California rejected proposals to give the Governor greater control over the budget and to allow doctor-assisted suicide for the terminally ill ; an equal rights amendment to give women statutory equal rights with men was rejected in Iowa ; environmental proposals on mandatory recyclable packaging and an excise tax on hazardous substances manufactured in the state were defeated in Massachusetts ; and Arizona voted to observe a state holiday in memory of the Rev. Martin Luther King , the 50th state to do so , and decided to switch its method of execution from gas chamber to lethal injection . |
| 14 | She made no reply but climbed out of bed . |
| 15 | He was favourably impressed by Utrecht , ‘ a brave City , a University with godly professors , full of English ’ , but pressed on to Arnhem , where he became pastor of the English church . |
| 16 | In spite of his apparent insignificance , he was hard and dangerous and insolent ; he had virtually no friends at school , but hung around after school with older boys known as ‘ a bad lot ’ . |
| 17 | We did n't talk any more , but walked along in silence . |
| 18 | Francis Morgan did not bother with knocking at the door but walked in without apology . |
| 19 | He saw 2 cars in front of him and said one car , which was driven by Anthony Gallagher , had indicated left but pulled out in front of him . |
| 20 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 21 | They tried to get them for Felling , but lost out to Yugoslavia . |
| 22 | She had liked him in those days and some of that liking still remained , resented , only half-acknowledged , but bound up with memories of sunlit walks in Port Meadow , luncheon and laughter in Hugo 's rooms , with the years of hope and promise . |
| 23 | Discussions took place between the two parties over a possible electoral alliance , but broke down in April . |
| 24 | He had a knee operation last month , but broke down in training last week and was sent to see top Cambridge specialist , David Dandy . |
| 25 | At this stage the RPC was still an impossibilist minority , well organized and favouring joint action with the Communist Party , but looked on with suspicion by the Communists themselves . |
| 26 | It is a tough relative of wheat , but fell out of favour with farmers as they switched to higher yielding wheat varieties which were easier to grind into flour . |
| 27 | From £20,000 in 1975 , the average climbed to £130,000 ( up 550% ) but fell back to £72,000 in 1991 . |
| 28 | It is even possible that now and again an extra long detour may have caused us to walk below the windows of Braemar Mansions ( ‘ not mansions , ’ wrote Ivy , ‘ but converted out of houses ’ ) , little knowing that there sat the sibyl who would completely have understood all our troubles . |
| 29 | He was due for release next year but ran off on May the 4th from a prisoners ' training camp at Simonds Yat on the Gloucestershire / Herefordshire Border . |
| 30 | The crook was given a reference but ran out of luck when his new bosses caught him fiddling £60 million . |