Example sentences of "but [vb past] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He passed the memo on , as requested , but scribbled in the margin : ‘ Almost too absurd to comment on . |
| 6 | He followed her , but stopped in the living room doorway and looked at the room . |
| 7 | Much of his leadership was thus a form of pragmatic extremism , extreme action and the threat of more extreme action to come , but used in the cause of more limited objectives . |
| 8 | Elisabeth did not enter the museum at once , but lingered in the courtyard . |
| 9 | The sort of business which flourished in the eighties but suffered in the recession hit nineties , laying off workers . |
| 10 | Equally , if it decided to push ahead against a company , but withdrew in the face of firm resistance from the directors , word would soon get about that it was a pushover . |
| 11 | Several leaders of the Liberal Party " were known to favour a Popular Front to move the Government , but acquiesced in the view that they could do nothing about it unless the Labour Party changed its attitude " . |
| 12 | Britain , too , favoured the association of the proposed Arab state with Transjordan , but backtracked in the face of widespread hostility which made Abdallah unpopular throughout the Arab world . |
| 13 | The boy tried to escape — but collapsed in the living room with a bullet in his head . |
| 14 | It was the concept of parole , originally at the discretion of the Home Secretary , but amended in the course of the passage of the legislation through Parliament so that he could grant early release on licence to a prisoner only if advised to do so by a statutory Parole Board , that commanded the keenest interest of penal reformers and had the most extensive effects . |
| 15 | In 1940 , thanks to the party truce , he was elected for Preston , but lost in the election of 1945 . |
| 16 | During that period the privatised company must come forward with a [ Mr. McAllion ] proposal that the Secretary of State can accept , but included in the proposal must be an agreement between the trade unions and the employer about pension arrangements . |
| 17 | By then she 'd saved enough money to go to Australia , but decided in the end that she could always travel later . |
| 18 | His boyish , open face with its look of disciplined idealism was vaguely familiar to Massingham , who suspected that he might have seen it in a police recruitment pamphlet , but decided in the interest of harmonious co-operation to give Underhill the benefit of the doubt . |
| 19 | The ventral arm plates are pentagonal , the distal edge is convex but indented in the middle . |
| 20 | The giant nanny had unlocked the door for him but kept in the background and gave me no sign of recognition . |
| 21 | Lord Grimond , known to everyone as Jo , left the Commons ten years ago , but continued in the House of Lords as a life peer . |
| 22 | According to Moschion , who lived about the third century BC but wrote in the spirit of a century or two earlier , it was due to Time — ‘ the begetter and nurturer of all things ’ — that ‘ The earth , once barren , began to be ploughed by yoked oxen , towered cities arose , men built sheltering homes and turned their lives from savage ways to civilized . ’ |
| 23 | Allen had no home but slept in the church porch and earned his keep in any way he could and scavenged and begged when that was the only way to stay alive . |
| 24 | Thus , in the Peruvian language Amahuacan , there is an L-tense affix ( call it " T " ) which means different things at different times of the day : john kicked-T Bill said in the afternoon means " John kicked Bill in the morning " , but said in the morning it means " John kicked Bill yesterday " . |
| 25 | He did not go any further into the room but stood in the door keeping a watchful eye on Evans . |
| 26 | There he hit his drive into the water hazard , but stood in the ditch to hit a 4-iron recovery through trees to within 75 yards of the green . |
| 27 | The step which for decades successive tsars had contemplated but abandoned in the face of noble opposition was taken at last . |
| 28 | He failed to achieve this but remained in the country with his friend John Bell . |
| 29 | Mohammed Mousa was replaced as Minister of the Interior by Daouda Rabiou , but remained in the cabinet as Minister of Commerce , Transport and Tourism . |
| 30 | She did not keep in the background but sat in the gallery every day with her poodle . |