Example sentences of "but [adv] [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Situationist project is flawed , as I believe it is , it is not because antecedent theories of libertarians , Marxists and Council Communists are ignored by them , but rather because they lacked the will to build on this tradition a systematic utopianism consisting of critique and plausible projections into the future . |
| 2 | But only when I reached the washed sky of the Thames did I dare to pull over and negotiate my fear . |
| 3 | But not before he kissed the top of my helmet and shouted at me : " Oh , my mum 's going to hear about this . " |
| 4 | Morel died soon after , but not before he had the bitter pleasure of seeing the Labour Government brought down with the aid of a ‘ red scare ’ engineered , it appeared at the time , by Foreign Office officials . |
| 5 | ‘ Although if I knew them and I wanted a nice picture — smiling , arms around each other — I would call out to them , but not before I reached the third frame . ’ |
| 6 | But not before I saw the speedometer register over 100 mph and decided to fasten my seat belt . |
| 7 | As I said to my husband only last night ( just after I had eaten my miserable Lean Cuisine but just before I finished the box of Black Magic ) : ‘ Is n't it terrible the way we allow advertisers to manipulate us ? ’ |
| 8 | But just when we thought the evenings might get a bit boring . |
| 9 | But just when it seemed the writing was about to be put back up on the wall , Kendall found an unlikely saviour . |
| 10 | He heard the door close behind him , but just as he reached the gate it was hurriedly opened again and a voice called , ‘ Just a moment ! |
| 11 | But just as he put the rope over his head , he screamed in terror and threw his arms above his head . |
| 12 | But yesterday as they gave the clenched fist salute of the Spanish republican army and planned another ceremony next year , they smiled a smile of inner satisfaction at having taken part in a fight which they had no doubts was well worth fighting . |
| 13 | They transgressed fixity not only because they were without fixed abode , but also because they lacked the identity which , in a hierarchical society , was essentially conferred by one 's place in that society . |
| 14 | He could see the Bible as drama not only because he believed in the Devil but also because he read the Bible as literature . |
| 15 | The dismay was in part because of the anticipated economic consequences of this militancy , but also because it threatened the existing social order of late Victorian England . |
| 16 | Also in Scandinavia was an important study of the mass movement processes on the slopes of Kärkevagge ( Rapp , 1960 ) and this was important not only because it endeavoured to quantify all of the processes that affect a slope in a subarctic environment , but also because it established the relative significance of the different processes and concluded that the most effective agent of removal was running water removing material in solution . |
| 17 | But surely if they got the yellow book and had , we sent them off in , in a room to actually read that book . |
| 18 | But even though they made the ideal start yesterday , taking a third minute lead through David McAnulty , they had no answer to Holywood 's class . |
| 19 | Teacher says it 's disgraceful But even if I had the time , I feel too tired . |
| 20 | But even as he asked the question , D'Arcy already knew the answer . |
| 21 | Black gets it into the box Rozario got a header in but even as he headed the ball he limped away again and if he 'd have been properly fit then he would have really powered that one in . |
| 22 | But even as she made the token protest she knew a longing almost painful in its intensity to feel the possession of his mouth all over again . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't care , ’ she said stubbornly , but even as she said the words she knew they were n't a hundred per cent true . |
| 24 | But even as she framed the words in her mind , confidence deserted her . |
| 25 | But even as she held the knob in her hand and was about to turn it , she hesitated and her arm dropped to her side . |
| 26 | But then as we played the 13th I thought it might just be down to Bernhard and Seve . |
| 27 | Er , perhaps I could make er one comment , maybe Mr Gordon will ma wish to make a a technical comment on it , but certainly when we began the programme and we discussed with the other nations in the early stages of of the collaboration . |