Example sentences of "but [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a square , prefabricated building , none too appropriate to the site , but banished to the least obtrusive position , behind the entrance kiosk . |
| 2 | By the time we crossed the Forth , it was early morning , the tide was out , so we did not take the cliff-top path but rode along the beach . |
| 3 | Those of you who saved or remember the ‘ CRAP ’ incident with me and some floozy who supported Sheff Utd but got on the list , will recall that I paid Sheff Utd some compliments … in the form of Hodges , pemberton and Bassett . |
| 4 | He did not reply , but got into the car glumly , with a martyred air . |
| 5 | The name comes from the old Norse word meaning ‘ to gush ’ and was not only given to the township nearby , but got into the English language as a descriptive name for any jet of water . |
| 6 | Tom 's mother was highly critical of the way the mainstream school was handling him but agreed to the assessment because she felt it might help him . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Salvage from sailing ships was an important additional income for the local people , but ceased with the coming of the steamships as they could stand out to sea in a storm . |
| 9 | The poster at the end of the tunnel was so large and so perfectly lit that it seemed to O , looking up at it suddenly , that the tunnel did not end in a wall , in fact did not end at all , but led to the green fields of France . |
| 10 | In the mid-twenties it closed altogether but reopened towards the end of the decade . |
| 11 | But melded with the annoyance was a certain satisfaction that the model graduate chief inspector , whom he thought much too clever and ambitious for her own good , had made a grave error . |
| 12 | Alex was made a ward of court but lived with the Demetrious . |
| 13 | The case concerned the wife of a civil servant who worked in Northern Ireland but lived in the Irish Republic . |
| 14 | The problems were worsened by corruption , as in the notorious Malaysian case when a major highway contract was awarded to a construction company of limited experience , but owned by the ruling political party . |
| 15 | By larding on the make-up , Jane Pargeter seemed to have regained the charm and sharpness she displayed on television but lacked on the afternoon following the murder . |
| 16 | Chatichai Choonhaven [ see p. 39007 ] , drawing its support largely from Chart Thai ( Chatichai 's old party ) and from Sammakkhi Tham , the air force 's protégé party which had won the largest number of seats ( 79 ) in the March election , but disintegrated with the collapse of the Suchinda government . |
| 17 | The king , in great anger , ordered the immediate implementation of this judgement , but relented on the intercession of Abbot Ælfsige and Queen Emma , who argued that it was unjust to punish the whole community for the faults of a few . |
| 18 | Other Rational Dissenters held back from Priestley 's particular arguments but shared with the Priestleyans an urgent commitment to influencing moral life through advocacy of ‘ great and universally allowed principles of religion and morality … in all their boundless and beneficent application to the concerns of public and private life , of national and individual conduct , of politics , literature , art , philosophy and the condition of society ’ ( W. J. Fox ) . |
| 19 | Judith Jones , his editor for the past 15 years , said Mr Hersey not only wrote , but fought for the rights of all authors and was active until the end . |
| 20 | All three are part of one pattern , defined by Christ , but experienced within the penitential life of the meditator : no resurrection without death , no joy without sorrow , no feeling of the presence of love without sometimes consciousness of its absence , and all three comings relate to an overcoming of sin . |
| 21 | They slowed to give themselves a respite but realized in the succeeding moment that they had run into a dead end . |
| 22 | It seems that they are not gods exactly , but made of the same stuff as gods . |
| 23 | The report states that rates of child poverty ’ remained constant in the 1980 's for most countries , but doubled in the United Kingdom The results of longitudinal studies suggest that countries that have more child poverty and do not provide universal child care or other programmes to reduce inequalities before the child goes into the school system will have more crime . |
| 24 | She located most of the resources but checked with the librarian to see if there was anything " in the pipeline " which could be added to what she already had . |
| 25 | They failed in the former endeavour but succeeded in the latter . |
| 26 | He deserves his reputation for radicalism — he has the softness of a cerebral bop guitarist like Jim Hall but coupled with the sudden fire of Jimmy Hendrix . |
| 27 | The looseness of the syntax was a familiar symptom enough , but coupled with the handwriting it took on a more sinister light , for the writing was one of those faint , regular , carefully-looped hands which indicate an underlying antipathy to the written word . |
| 28 | Determination to deal with the situation " properly and once and for all " but coupled with the confusion of not knowing precisely what to do for the best , particularly in the face of vast quantities of advice all of which seems perfectly clear — except that it directly conflicts with other equally vast and equally clear advice from other sources . |
| 29 | He bring the Turkey to survival but coupled with the suggestions then other people they not finished they try and fill in their pockets . |
| 30 | He said he did not want to involve British troops and planes in action , but admitted for the first time that it was a possibility . |