Example sentences of "but [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But on to the sounds . |
| 2 | The four man circle , pictured above , identified that excess clay was falling not into the trucks beneath each machine but on to the floor . |
| 3 | The opposite view , with the fine back , is good too , but in between the extended limbs telescope awkwardly though the full-face is splendid . |
| 4 | But along with the miniature conifers come miniature hitch-hikers . |
| 5 | There were several little alleyways that he might have used and they had a man watching each one ; but then in the end he approached from the other side , not through the bazaar at all but along through the streets , the way they themselves had come on that previous visit . |
| 6 | Fräulein was not in her room but down at the party . |
| 7 | Productivity growth in manufacturing in the first quarter at 3.8 per cent was higher than the same period a year earlier , but down on the five per cent improvement in the final three months of last year . |
| 8 | It may be the closed season for rowing … but down on the river , it 's the Head of the River . |
| 9 | Yeah but down on the marshes , near , near The Wavey |
| 10 | In mechanics there were interactions in which momentum ( mv ) was conserved , and others in which vis viva ( mv 2 ) was unchanged ; but down to the middle of the nineteenth century there was no principle of the same generality as that which Lavoisier had made into the foundation of chemistry . |
| 11 | However , the extent of the command in the Great Commission is not simply the spread of the gospel outwards territorially but down through the cultural layers . |
| 12 | But down in the hollow the sunshine remained and so did Delia Sutherland watching her father , her mother , herself . |
| 13 | Erm but down in the Rift Valley the Pocot people were a very different tribe , they wore leather , little tiny leather skirts and cowrie shells and nothing here , and it was very very hot , and they were a nomadic people who erm moved about with their animals but because , when I was there , there 'd been a very bad drought , they 'd had to erm just beg really for food . |
| 14 | Somewhere outside the world went on turning , but down in the backstage changing rooms and passageways of The Gilded Cage — London 's Finest Nightspot , All-New Revue — everything moved to the beat of Performance Time . |
| 15 | But down in the Aldwych was the London School of Economics , where there were the first stirrings of student revolt , English-style , and to which the medical student often made his way . |
| 16 | It was up in Europe but down in the U K. |
| 17 | Its looking good for both Swindon and Oxford , but down in the third division Hereford are having a tough old time … they 're just four points and four places off the bottom of the table … on Saturday they missed out at Lincoln … they lost two-nil |
| 18 | No sign of a tent , but over to the left , just showing , was a clump of trees thickly planted and apparently sheltered from the worst of the weather , and , standing up from among them , the chimneys of a house . |
| 19 | The eyes of the world may be on Microsoft Corp Windows NT , but over at the IBM booth they are pulling out all the stops to show that OS/2 is far from dead . |
| 20 | The eyes of the world may have been on Microsoft Corp Windows NT , but over at the IBM booth they were pulling out all the stops to show that OS/2 is far from dead . |
| 21 | But up on the estates , even the dismembered ones , old limbs are still twitching with archaic reflexes . |
| 22 | Jean-Marie Le Pen 's extreme right party is now expected to get only 12-13 per cent of the vote , slightly down from its 13.6 per cent in the regional elections but up on the 9.6 per cent it won in the last general election five years ago . |
| 23 | If you drink a good bottle of meth , you get a good hit , like , but up at the hospital , they give you those tiny plastic containers . |
| 24 | Gordon Williamson 's Aces of the Reich is an excellent example of the latter type of book , including as it does over 100 biographies of Third Reich personalities who made their mark , not in politics or high command , but up at the ‘ sharp end ’ . |
| 25 | But up to the end of May 1985 , the steel industry had received from the metal-working industry only $360.000 . |
| 26 | The Gallery is an independent trust but up to the present its trustees have been the College Governors of Dulwich College , acting as trustees of the Picture Gallery . |
| 27 | The power is not being devolved downwards , but up to the centre . |
| 28 | As they set off she realized they were n't driving back towards the restaurants of the town centre and Willi 's beloved Franz Joseph hotel , but up to the mountain road that led over the pass and into the next valley . |
| 29 | The FT-SE 100 closed down 11.6 at 2759.4 , while sterling closed unchanged against the dollar at $1.56 , but up against the mark at DM2.48 . |
| 30 | The pound is down against the dollar at ( $1.75 ) one dollar , seventy five , but up against the mark at ( 2.88 ) two marks eighty eight . |