Example sentences of "but [conj] [pers pn] leave the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not so much that she took things from the house — though his racial fear of the poorhouse or famine was deep — but that she left the house at all . |
| 2 | Britain 's Sharon Lee also faced Gao and succumbed to two knockdowns , but although she left the hall without a medal , two good wins , including a 20-second victory over Carole Scheid , of the United States , showed that she is capable of making an impact at world level . |
| 3 | But before he left the policeman peered round the walls and noticed other equally frank nudes . |
| 4 | But before she left the room , she turned back . |
| 5 | The worker , at the time , is not able to interrupt the woman to help her with that problem but after she leaves the bureau the adviser feels extremely worried about it . |
| 6 | But when they left the building he turned without explanation to the left and down the steps to Birdcage Walk . |
| 7 | But when we left the capital with its taxis playing Strauss over Beijing Radio and travelled on the diesel train through the countryside , we found that in the rural areas change comes more slowly . |
| 8 | The magnitude of erosion is reflected in the silt content of the Huanghe River : before it enters the Loess lands it has an average silt content of 2 kg m-3 of water , but when it leaves the region after its confluence with the Weihe the average silt content is 35 kg m- which can rise to several hundreds of kilograms after storms ( Smil 1984 ) . |
| 9 | But as we left the tarmac road and headed up the hill I made a grave error . |
| 10 | Strong persuasion was required to keep Curran from her evening doubles match but as she left the court to return to her hotel for physiotherapy , England claimed another point by default . |
| 11 | But as she left the room she had to make an effort not to hurry with excitement down the stairs . |
| 12 | But as you leave the resort metropolis — once a tiny fishing village — and take the bumpy roads through the sub-tropical jungle , American standards are left far behind and real Mexico tilts a lazy sombrero in your direction . |
| 13 | But as he left the library he heard a shout behind him . |