Example sentences of "but [adv] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1	She taught briefly in schools in Liverpool , Oban , and Eastbourne , and for a longer period in Tunbridge Wells , but eventually returned to Inverness to keep house for her invalid father , whom she outlived by only two years .
2	The reforms in education are broadly right , but badly sold to teachers and the public .
3	It was particularly frustrating for Bob Bridges who went into the last match on level points with Jones and caught over 40 fish — but still failed to weigh-in .
4	On his return , he entered the Royal College of Music to study singing , but later turned to art , and in April 1914 he enrolled in the Académie Delacluse in Paris .
5	The driver was taken to the same hospital , but later moved to Wolverhampton for his own protection as angry relatives and friends of the girls ' families gathered in corridors .
6	Mr Norris was taken to Scunthorpe General Hospital but later transferred to Hull Royal Infirmary where he underwent surgery on his right thigh .
7	He was taken to Northallerton 's Friarage Hospital but later transferred to Middlesbrough General .
8	But now signed to UK techno-pioneer Wayne Archbold 's General Production Recordings , EPs like the transcendental ‘ Virtual ’ are at last starting to intoxicate an increasing number of central nervous systems with their glacial , jazz-tinged tone-explorations .
9	Mrs Chandler was rushed to the Duchess of Kent 's Military Hospital at nearby Catterick Garrison , but then transferred to Middlesbrough General Hospital .
10	He visited Vientiane ( the capital of Laos ) in the late 1950s , but subsequently returned to Pathet Lao territory until the final stages of Communist victory in 1975 .
11	He resigned , on principle , over Eden 's mismanagement of the Suez crisis , but quietly returned to office under Macmillan as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Education ( first Lord Hailsham , and then Geoffrey Lloyd ) .

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