Example sentences of "but [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But on to the sounds . |
| 2 | The four man circle , pictured above , identified that excess clay was falling not into the trucks beneath each machine but on to the floor . |
| 3 | There were several little alleyways that he might have used and they had a man watching each one ; but then in the end he approached from the other side , not through the bazaar at all but along through the streets , the way they themselves had come on that previous visit . |
| 4 | Fräulein was not in her room but down at the party . |
| 5 | It may be the closed season for rowing … but down on the river , it 's the Head of the River . |
| 6 | Yeah but down on the marshes , near , near The Wavey |
| 7 | In mechanics there were interactions in which momentum ( mv ) was conserved , and others in which vis viva ( mv 2 ) was unchanged ; but down to the middle of the nineteenth century there was no principle of the same generality as that which Lavoisier had made into the foundation of chemistry . |
| 8 | But down in the Aldwych was the London School of Economics , where there were the first stirrings of student revolt , English-style , and to which the medical student often made his way . |
| 9 | It was up in Europe but down in the U K. |
| 10 | But down in the hollow the sunshine remained and so did Delia Sutherland watching her father , her mother , herself . |
| 11 | Erm but down in the Rift Valley the Pocot people were a very different tribe , they wore leather , little tiny leather skirts and cowrie shells and nothing here , and it was very very hot , and they were a nomadic people who erm moved about with their animals but because , when I was there , there 'd been a very bad drought , they 'd had to erm just beg really for food . |
| 12 | The eyes of the world may be on Microsoft Corp Windows NT , but over at the IBM booth they are pulling out all the stops to show that OS/2 is far from dead . |
| 13 | The eyes of the world may have been on Microsoft Corp Windows NT , but over at the IBM booth they were pulling out all the stops to show that OS/2 is far from dead . |
| 14 | But up on the estates , even the dismembered ones , old limbs are still twitching with archaic reflexes . |
| 15 | If you drink a good bottle of meth , you get a good hit , like , but up at the hospital , they give you those tiny plastic containers . |
| 16 | The Gallery is an independent trust but up to the present its trustees have been the College Governors of Dulwich College , acting as trustees of the Picture Gallery . |
| 17 | The power is not being devolved downwards , but up to the centre . |
| 18 | But up to the end of May 1985 , the steel industry had received from the metal-working industry only $360.000 . |
| 19 | As they set off she realized they were n't driving back towards the restaurants of the town centre and Willi 's beloved Franz Joseph hotel , but up to the mountain road that led over the pass and into the next valley . |
| 20 | The FT-SE 100 closed down 11.6 at 2759.4 , while sterling closed unchanged against the dollar at $1.56 , but up against the mark at DM2.48 . |
| 21 | The pound is down against the dollar at ( $1.75 ) one dollar , seventy five , but up against the mark at ( 2.88 ) two marks eighty eight . |
| 22 | Right good and you should always check that before you draw it just in case your pie chart comes out and put , put that up in the air a bit I 'll just show you that , those are good there , but up in the air like that |
| 23 | Verger it may have seemed once , down there in the sunlit nave … but up in the spaces … with no one to witness … it no longer needed that shape . |
| 24 | About 350 million years ago , some appeared in which the sexual generation no longer grew flat on the ground , but up in the crowns of the trees . |
| 25 | The girls were now too close to their exam , too anxious to do more than lift their faces to him , but out of the tiredness and filth of lime he could be seen looking often at their heads bent over the lamplit pages in what looked close to melancholy and sunken reflection . |
| 26 | In her place I would have been not only up the wall but out of the door ! |
| 27 | Keep collections visible but out of the way of day-to-day living : deep windowsills and cabinets are ideal , or tables that are n't used regularly . |
| 28 | And , because they will have arisen not out of planning but out of the story you are telling , almost certainly each new development will have that necessary quality of being a worse trouble for your heroine until the final calamity at the end . |
| 29 | Although the extra representation for zemstva did not arise out of St Petersburg 's enthusiasm for local government ( but out of the determination of central agencies to prevent any one of their number dominating the rest ) , it nevertheless ensured " a large dose of decentralization " in primary education and gave primary schools a better chance than they would have had otherwise . |
| 30 | Thus was a popular nationalism created , not by intention or design , but out of the exigencies of the struggle . |