Example sentences of "but [adv] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHYTE Crucial clearances but rarely got to grips with Hateley or McCoist 6 |
| 2 | The spraying of the pesticide , Galecron , took place in 1976 , but only came to light during a recent Swiss TV programme . |
| 3 | After the establishment by the Viet Minh of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( DRV ) in the north in 1945 , he was dispatched to the South during the war against the French in the early 1950s , but soon returned to Hanoi and to a place in the Communist Party politburo , Vietnam having meanwhile , in 1954 , been partitioned into two military zones , with DRV forces in the north and French forces in the south . |
| 4 | Halcyon barley came in at 24% moisture initially , but soon dropped to 19% . |
| 5 | They started to work out the answers mentally , but soon resorted to calculators . |
| 6 | They demurred politely , but finally succumbed to Alan 's persuasion . |
| 7 | This helped promote political stability , but also led to friction within the government and with its supporters , disappointed in their expectation of a major improvement in living conditions . |
| 8 | To , to , to my friend who 'd bought me a , you know , a pint of beer I would have said , ‘ We wanted , I wanted , not only annual licensing but also linked to training and food handling , otherwise it does n't mean anything . ’ |
| 9 | It rose to something like 35,000 tons per year but then began to tail off ( see appendix D ) . |
| 10 | I enjoyed it for a few weeks but then went to Stanley . ’ |
| 11 | Its share price began at $38 , soared to $55 but then crashed to $9 during a market collapse in 1903 . |
| 12 | Conversely , fractional albumin clearance fell with both treatments from 0 to 6 months ( although not significantly ) but then rose to pretreatment values after 12 months with hydrochlorothiazide , whereas it fell further with enalapril ( one way analysis of variance of the treatment-time interaction for enalapril group , p=0.022 ) . |
| 13 | A 1976 Granada television comedy project , ‘ All The Queen 's Men ’ , featured an all-gay Army unit but never came to fruition . |
| 14 | The young woman came regularly to take care of the sick cow , but never spoke to Gabriel . |
| 15 | He had been held scoreless for the first twenty-five minutes of the game but certainly went to town afterwards ! |