Example sentences of "but [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Success , however , ruined its author , who took to strange clothes and beliefs and ‘ never wrote any more , but wasted the rest of his time trying to explain what he had and what he had not meant in John Inglesant' . |
| 2 | For Great Britain , the Department of Trade and Industry persuaded Luke Rittner , former Secretary General of the Arts Council , to act as its cultural adviser , but wasted the invitation by equipping him with a totally inadequate budget . |
| 3 | If you had but divided the cake with your brothers , |
| 4 | The studied plainness of diction in these poems of country life was an important part of their experimental character , but became the object of much ridicule . |
| 5 | ‘ We filled a big order for a Yorkshire company , but got the colour of the material wrong . ’ |
| 6 | He then made one or two suggestions for limiting her liability , but got the impression that she was indifferent to his suggestions as though she thought it would be a waste of time to put them forward . |
| 7 | The congress expressed support for President Kravchuk , but sought the dismissal of the present government under Prime Minister Vitold Fokin , the dissolution of the current parliament ( elected in March 1990 ) and the holding of fresh legislative elections . |
| 8 | He did not wait for an answer but led the way through to the kitchen . |
| 9 | Miller was confident about his coaching abilities but lacked the management skills needed to run a Premier club . |
| 10 | If you 've been thinking of making domestic changes or improvements , but lacked the money or momentum to set the wheels of change in motion use today to make a start . |
| 11 | The reading had fully revealed a fact which she had dimly apprehended before but lacked the courage to confront until she saw it reflected in the mirror of the spread . |
| 12 | The case was taken on appeal to the House of Lords , who upheld the decision of the Court of Appeal on the merits , but rebuked the Court of Appeal for not following its own previous decisions . |
| 13 | However , on their first night she felt like a patient strapped to an operating table without the benefit of an anaesthetic ; and the surgeon was not only blind but expected the patient to give him directions . |
| 14 | She looked wistfully up the companionway to the square of blue sky , but fought the urge to go up on deck , scared he might ask her to do something that would reveal her ignorance . |
| 15 | Beto continued the policy but expanded the scope of inmate productivity to include building on a large scale . |
| 16 | The award was made against London Underground , who admitted liability but disputed the amount of damages . |
| 17 | County Education Officer Brian Worthy agreed facilities such as a TV room and library may have to be sacrificed for eight or nine months , but disputed the claim the toilet system would not cope . |
| 18 | The plaintiff did not seek to question the correctness of an assessment or to have any underlying issue of fact adjudicated , but disputed the Revenue 's right to seek to vary the existing assessments by bringing s 485 into operation . |
| 19 | However , Mary , Jack and Charlie did n't stop but made the excuse that they had to go back to work . |
| 20 | Some of the Garter knights , including former prime minister Lord Wilson of Rievaulx , missed the procession but made the journey by car . |
| 21 | Nice chap and he teaches creative writing in Glasgow , used to be a teacher then a teacher trainer and then I think took early retirement and he does this but made the point that he simply uses it for extra income for pleasure and interest as opposed I suppose to a way of writing you know so |
| 22 | Grady slipped with a 75 but made the cut , as did Roger Davis with a splendid 68 to retrieve his position after a first round of 77 . |
| 23 | That it was the wrong remedy was discovered later when he was given a higher potency which helped the eczema but made the asthma worse . |
| 24 | The political and ideological factors that had led to popular support for and involvement in the inter-imperialist war of 1914–18 and the anti-fascist war of 1939–45 could no longer be used to justify the use of means of warfare which , it became clear , not only involved disproportionate suffering but endangered the future of humanity . |
| 25 | He spoke of men 's ‘ sexist ’ behaviour , but laid the responsibility for providing a remedy with women , who must exercise a ‘ civilising influence ’ on these infantile people . |
| 26 | Ace made to throw the weapon , but checked the movement and brought it to Defries . |
| 27 | The first time she attempted to climb onto the pole she failed , but succeeded the second . |
| 28 | He flinched but withstood the glare and held Lee 's steady gaze . |
| 29 | Athelstan dallied with the thought of tying each of the people in this house down to their exact movements during the night Sir Thomas died , as well as the following one when Vechey disappeared , but realised the futility of it . |
| 30 | A soldier involved in the extensive security operation which attended the publication of the statutes regretted the need to quarter troops in villages but admitted the force of the Latin tag Si vis pacem , para bellum : " If you want peace , prepare for war " . |