Example sentences of "but [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Late in 1743 a messenger was sent to alert James in Rome , and at dawn on 9 January 1744 Charles left the Palazzo Muti in Rome with his brother Henry , who was to serve as a decoy , on the pretence of a hunting trip , but made off to the north , leaving Henry to send off to Rome presents of wild geese supposedly from Charles . |
| 32 | We do n't know in which direction , but made off from the scene . |
| 33 | The feeling swept over me that I had truly left Darlington Hall behind , and I must confess I did feel a slight sense of alarm — a sense aggravated by the feeling that I was perhaps not on the correct road at all , but speeding off in totally the wrong direction into a wilderness . |
| 34 | As a result of one recommendation , the company was no longer to be totally run from Wales , but broken up into smaller profit centres ; four separate operating divisions were proposed , each with its own board comprising the principal managers within that division . |
| 35 | On land , where for the most part rocks are not built up by deposition but broken down by erosion , deposits , such as sand dunes , are only very rarely created and preserved . |
| 36 | The edges of the solid alder body are smoothly rounded at the front but squared off on the back , with no comfy contouring . |
| 37 | The items in this inventory were modelled on the list of symptoms used by psychiatrists to diagnose the borderline condition of ‘ schizotypal personality disorder ’ referred to earlier , but toned down for use with non-clinical populations . |
| 38 | He is a most inspiring chap , obviously one of the Montgomery school , but toned down by his service with the Guards . ’ |
| 39 | Orality is also a feature of the fiction of Juan Rulfo , whose Pedro Páramo re-creates the world of rural Mexico through a narrative which initially appears to be a conventionally written text but turns out to be constituted orally , with one of the characters , Juan Preciado , emerging as the internal author as he recounts his own story and hears and transmits those of the other characters . |
| 40 | By now G. is no longer suspicious of me but turns out to be a lively , talkative , and intelligent man . |
| 41 | But ruled out of the squad at the moment are Liverpool 's Ronnie Whelan , Sheffield Wednesday 's John Sheridan and Celtic 's Tommy Coyne . |
| 42 | ‘ Sinead did n't go to the door but crept up to the window . |
| 43 | The wind pressure on the rotors increased rapidly when they were rotated at full speed but levelled off at wind velocities beyond about 12 m/sec . |
| 44 | Major Tzann could not help but pick up on the missing contriteness . |
| 45 | Readers of lowbrow papers were relatively ill informed about polls before the campaign but caught up with highbrow readers later . |
| 46 | And so she behind all the way but caught up with her a few metres |
| 47 | The 27-year-old suffered a nasty head wound from an object thrown by the burglar , but caught up with him and rugby-tackled him to the ground . |
| 48 | The crack above is quite awkward to start , but press on to finish this long pitch in one . |
| 49 | But walking along beside him , sucking his cane , and looking ineffably bored as he escorted his new marchioness , née Miss Maybelle Foy , the meat-packer 's heiress from Chicago , was none other than Havvie Blaine , of unblessed memory . |
| 50 | It is possible , however , to start off with good intentions , but to slip back on all these important elements once the pressure of circumstances begins to dictate . |
| 51 | She allowed herself to be posed like a mannequin , but drew in on herself when he let her go . |
| 52 | Talking about his selection he said : ‘ I think that most of us look at paintings not so much to find out about them , but to find out about ourselves , for like a great novel or play , a great painting offers us a unique opportunity of investigating our own experiences . ’ |
| 53 | There was a schoolboy excitement about it , but weighed down by the heavy , weird atmosphere of the frozen Gulf . |
| 54 | Matthew S. looked uncertain , but bent down to his paper again . |
| 55 | We also got unanimous sympathy for pissing on Spurs , but ending up with just a point . |
| 56 | Area fisheries officer Vaughan Lewis said : ‘ The Wye has a healthy trout population but silting up of the river bed can be a problem . |
| 57 | The impact of tourism stops pretty soon outside the medieval walls of the town , and the dwellings are like those of any impoverished fishing village in Cornwall , Sicily or Provence : low , simple buildings containing no more than the most primitive necessities , but opening on to the turquoise bay , with the Venetian walls on the western side and red cliffs to the east . |
| 58 | Vincent decided not to hang about for the landlord , but head back on foot the way they had come . |
| 59 | but looks down on the unchanged saffron flowers |
| 60 | Finally , let us rekindle that vision in Isaiah 11 where the lion does not eat the lamb but lies down in a symbiotic relationship with it . |