Example sentences of "but [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amidst the unhilarious mayhem , a bespectacled and wide-eyed Dustin managed to time a few gags well , but became swamped by the strained and desperate elements of the ridiculous plot . |
| 2 | He charged the half-mile to the narrow exit lane at the eastern end of the Bay , wedged between the point and the beach , but got trapped in the surging rip current that dragged him towards Coffin Corner , the shipwrecking rocks at the west end of the Bay . |
| 3 | I was a little unsettled by the fury of the blizzard , and hugged the top of the ridge all the way along , but avoided taking in the top due west of Cairn Gorm in case I was blown off my feet . |
| 4 | He treated Vial leniently in his committee 's report , but failed to press for the early appointment of the necessary second professor . |
| 5 | Mrs Thatcher , on the other hand , claimed that previous Tory leaders had agreed on the country 's problems and what needed to be done — cutting public expenditure and direct taxation , reforming the unions , and restoring the incentives and financial disciplines of the free market — but failed to carry through the policies . |
| 6 | They consistently held the initiative but seemed overwhelmed by the vision of victory and , when they twice had it in their grasp , they froze . |
| 7 | So she eased the car forward a few inches more — but forgot to take off the lock . |
| 8 | He was selected to run in the 100 and 200 metres in the 1924 Olympics in Paris , but declined to run in the 100 metres on religious grounds , because the heats were to be run on a Sunday . |
| 9 | He lost by 2,412 votes but returned to win at the General Election three months later with a majority of over 3,000 . |
| 10 | Dunlop cheese was produced on most Ayrshire farms right into the 20th century but began to decline after the Scottish Milk Marketing Board was set up in 1933 . |
| 11 | Fred Hoyle , in 1961 , also suggested that the protosun had originally contracted by shedding more of its outer web , but managed to spread to the outermost periphery of the Sun , carrying with it the Sun 's angular momentum . |
| 12 | Gervais Sindakira was injured but managed to run to the main seminary buildings and was sheltered between two priests in the pupils ' refectory . |
| 13 | In January 1945 he was arrested in Krakow by the Gestapo but managed to escape from the transport taking him to a concentration camp . |
| 14 | He did not , but went to stand at the window , looking out . |
| 15 | The boys did n't stop or even call out that they were sorry , but went charging down the lane as soon as they recovered their balance after the collision . |
| 16 | She could not sit down to talk , but kept moving around the room polishing doors and furniture although they already sparkled . |
| 17 | Some farmers , however , did not even attempt this , but preferred to rely upon the application of economic and social discipline alone . |
| 18 | The first of those points is the principle of a Greater York dimension to the structure plan , erm we 'll all probably be aware that in the original structure plan the Secretary of State was n't prepared to accept a Greater York dimension in the structure plan , but did accept with the support of the district councils on the first alteration , the inclusion of a Greater York dimension . |
| 19 | And a new book claims William Shakespeare wrote none of his plays but did look after the costumes and take the money on the door . |
| 20 | The body of a suicide is not buried , but left to hang until the rope breaks . |
| 21 | Any new vein discovered , but left unwrought for the space of six months after notice was given by the estate to the captain or purser of the mine , could be licenced to any other person to work . |
| 22 | The USA suspended US$320,000,000 in aid but continued to assist in the government 's anti-drugs campaign . |
| 23 | Gerry , born in Armagh , retired in 1987 but continued to write for the Armagh Gazette , broadcast on BBC radio and wrote a book on rural tales entitled And the Band Played On . |
| 24 | She said nothing to this but continued to stand in the doorway . |
| 25 | but continued to work within the Party until the end of November 1936 . |
| 26 | In order to verify his electrical recording findings , Thompson made lesions in the cerebellums of animals that had learned the conditioned eyeblink response , Rabbits that learned with their left eye and had lesions made to the left half of their cerebellum no longer blinked when they heard the tone but continued to blink to the puff of air . |
| 27 | George Barker had taken his place in 1940 but had escaped to the United States before Pearl Harbor , for he had been followed everywhere by the ‘ thought police ’ , the sinister kempeitai , who suspected him of being a communist spy . |
| 28 | The most significant scandal concerned George Koskotas , who had been charged in November 1988 with forgery and the embezzlement of US$200,000,000 from the Bank of Crete , but had escaped to the United States where he remained in custody awaiting extradition [ see p. 36562 ; see also pp. 36527 ; 36822 ; 36902 ] . |
| 29 | He beat fellow American and world No 5 Michael Chang 7–5 , 6–2 , but had to wait for the result of the final round robin match in his group between big-hitters Goran Ivanisevic and Richard Krajicek to see if he would get through to the semi-finals of this last ranking competition of the year . |
| 30 | The family 's passive resistance continued right up to the last moment : Zen was not permitted to set foot on Miletti soil but had to wait for the Fiat in the street , beyond the imposing wrought-iron gates . |