Example sentences of "but at [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saint-Savin today is small , even for a village , but at one time it was the centre of power in this valley . |
| 2 | Eliot was able to ‘ recognise himself through someone other ’ — a changeable other , but at one point it was the Frenchman Laforgue . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't really ‘ bang it ’ but at one stage I was doing it three weekends out of four . |
| 4 | But at that Service it should also be possible to think about what has been achieved and to express gratitude for the increase . |
| 5 | Later we find Pemberton speculating about his future role with respect to " his little charge " , but at that stage we can only guess what this role will be . |
| 6 | You 're always looking for a four on a par-5 , but at that stage you 'd take it as long as your main opposition has n't gone away . |
| 7 | She accepted the fact that she was probably ready for further responsibility but at that stage she had no idea what the responsibilities would be . |
| 8 | But at that stage he may have valued the intellectual stimulus that a closer intercourse with Jesuit astronomers seemed to promise . |
| 9 | Eric Brown then went and did that in the third round , but at that stage I thought it was going to be between Peter , Christy and Dave . |
| 10 | Yeah , but at that time we were s trying to speed back to York |
| 11 | ‘ New linguistics ’ , for us , included books on English by , , and ; but at that time we had not caught up with the new developments associated with . |
| 12 | But at that time he was fully occupied with BAT . |
| 13 | Vanbrugh was appointed as designer but at that time he is not known to have had any architectural experience ; his career had until then been a military one . |
| 14 | ‘ Nowadays , David might reasonably be thought a part of this , but at that time he too seemed to be running out of steam . |
| 15 | Today there 's not much of a problem , but at that time it was a little more troublesome and there was nobody doing anything about it . |
| 16 | But at that time it was n't what you 'd call modern in so far as you had n't got hot water from a sort of gas fir Electric heating . |
| 17 | In fact a lot was happening in my world , but at that time I was n't at all aware of it . |
| 18 | I often wished later that I had named Trotsky instead , because his principles were more in accord with the way I felt about the place by the time I left , but at that time I had never even heard of him . |
| 19 | The choice of the latter led Leavis , to whom I sent the paper later , to expostulate , but at that time I thought that Read was heading for an eminence which , at least as a creative writer , he never attained . |
| 20 | In The Psychoanalysis of Culture I drew attention to the undoubted paranoia of the fanatical adherent of solar monotheism in ancient Egypt , the Pharaoh Akhenaten ( alias Amenhotep IV ) , but at that time I was unable to demonstrate how such paranoid tendencies were related to the evolution of cultivating societies . |
| 21 | But at that time she herself had been determined to find out all there was to know . |
| 22 | But at that point it is , in a central sense , dead to the writer . |
| 23 | They were only three words but at that moment they were as pertinent as the universe . |
| 24 | He looked as if he were about to turn on his aunty as well , but at that moment they were interrupted by a clatter and a crash and the wail of a child . |
| 25 | Willi looked very dubious , but at that moment they heard voices in the lobby outside . |
| 26 | Charity opened her mouth to say that a Mercedes was really not on her list of aspirations , but at that moment they approached a sharp twist in the path and were almost knocked over by an electric golf cart careening around it . |
| 27 | But at that moment he woke up . |
| 28 | But at that moment she became aware that there was another person in the room . |
| 29 | She was rarely pleased to see Damien , but at that moment she could cheerfully have driven red-hot nails into his ugly wedge of a face . |
| 30 | The immigrant ship to South Africa , and all that followed , was still in the womb of time ; but at that moment I resolved that though I would grieve for Leslie for the rest of my life , I would yet to go forward , lighting my way by the torch of the incandescent spirit . |