Example sentences of "but [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time we crossed the Forth , it was early morning , the tide was out , so we did not take the cliff-top path but rode along the beach . |
| 2 | Those of you who saved or remember the ‘ CRAP ’ incident with me and some floozy who supported Sheff Utd but got on the list , will recall that I paid Sheff Utd some compliments … in the form of Hodges , pemberton and Bassett . |
| 3 | He did not reply , but got into the car glumly , with a martyred air . |
| 4 | Tom 's mother was highly critical of the way the mainstream school was handling him but agreed to the assessment because she felt it might help him . |
| 5 | Overall , the pound depreciated by 6.25 per cent in real terms in the year ended March 1990 , but recovered in the wake of the Gulf crisis , hitting a nine-year high against the US dollar on Aug. 23 ( £1=$1.9515 ) , and rising against the West German currency to over DM3 . |
| 6 | Salvage from sailing ships was an important additional income for the local people , but ceased with the coming of the steamships as they could stand out to sea in a storm . |
| 7 | In the mid-twenties it closed altogether but reopened towards the end of the decade . |
| 8 | But melded with the annoyance was a certain satisfaction that the model graduate chief inspector , whom he thought much too clever and ambitious for her own good , had made a grave error . |
| 9 | By larding on the make-up , Jane Pargeter seemed to have regained the charm and sharpness she displayed on television but lacked on the afternoon following the murder . |
| 10 | Chatichai Choonhaven [ see p. 39007 ] , drawing its support largely from Chart Thai ( Chatichai 's old party ) and from Sammakkhi Tham , the air force 's protégé party which had won the largest number of seats ( 79 ) in the March election , but disintegrated with the collapse of the Suchinda government . |
| 11 | The king , in great anger , ordered the immediate implementation of this judgement , but relented on the intercession of Abbot Ælfsige and Queen Emma , who argued that it was unjust to punish the whole community for the faults of a few . |
| 12 | She located most of the resources but checked with the librarian to see if there was anything " in the pipeline " which could be added to what she already had . |
| 13 | The looseness of the syntax was a familiar symptom enough , but coupled with the handwriting it took on a more sinister light , for the writing was one of those faint , regular , carefully-looped hands which indicate an underlying antipathy to the written word . |
| 14 | Determination to deal with the situation " properly and once and for all " but coupled with the confusion of not knowing precisely what to do for the best , particularly in the face of vast quantities of advice all of which seems perfectly clear — except that it directly conflicts with other equally vast and equally clear advice from other sources . |
| 15 | Bri was eager to learn but frustrated by the idea of learning the verbs ‘ parrot fashion ’ and tried , unsuccessfully , to find a way round this . |
| 16 | Edward began by attempting to exclude Stratford from the assembly , but failed in the face of support for the archbishop from the Earl of Arundel , Earl Warenne , and other lay magnates who shared their suspicion of those round the king . |
| 17 | Isabella and Mortimer could scarcely hope to survive long in power : neither had a claim to the throne but ruled in the name of Edward III ; their authority was thus precarious and , given that Edward was in the Plantagenet mould , destined to early extinction . |
| 18 | But I suspect that really our percept is an elaborate computer model in the brain , constructed on the basis of information coming from out there , but transformed in the head into a form in which that information can be used . |
| 19 | Professor John Ashworth , director of the London School of Economics , agreed with most of the letter 's points , but disagreed with the assertion that there had been a ‘ brain drain ’ as a result of Government mismanagement . |
| 20 | She made no answer , but rose from the chair , knowing when she was beaten , even though she was fuming inside at his high-handedness . |
| 21 | The Doctor did n't stop , but shouted at the top of his voice for all to hear : |
| 22 | Maggie felt it in her hand , frail , attenuated , overstretched , but tautened by the love and knowledge of all the women . |
| 23 | Writers were pleased that the group showed no hint of compromise but lamented on the record 's lack of pop muscle . |
| 24 | This ‘ second dispute ’ argument was not advanced by counsel for the steelworkers but emanated from the bench . |
| 25 | He passed the memo on , as requested , but scribbled in the margin : ‘ Almost too absurd to comment on . |
| 26 | He followed her , but stopped in the living room doorway and looked at the room . |
| 27 | I made mistakes and sweated over them , but tried on the whole to err on the side of caution . |
| 28 | It was a matter of very small beginnings for everybody , and then as the pictures that they made became more and more popular , more and more acceptable , used not merely in fairgrounds or in odd corners of shops and this sort of thing , for the odd fifteen minutes or twenty minutes of movie , but entered into the music halls , became one of the acts in the music hall entertainment erm this really was the foundation of a new industry , a new industry of entertainment , a new industry of information . |
| 29 | Somewhat grudgingly they were admitted to Central Station via Central Drive , to Manchester Square and Victoria Pier via Station Road , but excluded from the Promenade itself . |
| 30 | He did not immediately dry his face but knelt over the stream , looking down to where the sun was glinting on the pebbles , turning them momentarily into stars . |