Example sentences of "but [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a shortish , burly man who went bald early ; a heavy cigarette smoker ; quick-tempered , but recovering fast from anger . |
| 2 | Another way of looking at the process is to regard the member of the pair of particles that falls into the black hole — ; the antiparticle , say — as being really a particle that is traveling backward in time Thus , the antiparticle falling into the black hole can be regarded as a particle coming out of the black hole but traveling backward in time . |
| 3 | Then west by Hermitage Water to Ewesdale and Langholm and so over to Annandale in the Lockerbie area , rough going but saving much in distance . |
| 4 | So many of our wild creatures are nocturnal and never seen , but tiptoeing out after dark with torch in hand , can open up a whole new world . |
| 5 | I do have to admit , though , that when I 'm working away from home it 's not a case of going out on the town — but going straight to bed to catch up on a good night 's sleep . |
| 6 | But going back to work need n't mean full time , or even leaving home or baby . |
| 7 | Above all , a conservative revolution had placed Charles de Gaulle in a dominant position in France , with the Christian Democrats not just in opposition , but heading precipitately towards extinction . |
| 8 | IF Gidon Saks has been in the last year the bovver boy of Scottish Opera , singing splendidly but speaking out of turn , he has surely redeemed himself this week directing the RSAMD Opera Class in two productions at the New Athenaeum . |
| 9 | But staying out at night cost money if you did the right things : coffee bars and a movie or a disco , but if you rode round in borrowed cars it was an okay way of killing time . |
| 10 | They are ordinary normal persons , and as far as they were concerned their evidence is that essentially Mr. Winterbone was perfectly normal like them but suffering physically from pain from his shoulder . |
| 11 | but stopping in at night |
| 12 | ‘ West Brom will be less apprehensive about the replay , but playing away from home has not presented us with any major phobia . |
| 13 | Each individual 's participation will be limited so that the aggregate price payable on the exercise of all options granted to him under the Scheme in any ten year period ( but leaving out of account options which have been exercised ) will not exceed four times his annual remuneration . |