Example sentences of "but [pron] [noun sg] [be] [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to pull myself out but my foot was caught in some branches and the current squashed the canoe hard up against me , allowing me no movement . |
| 2 | ‘ But my soul is steeped in the blackest sin . ’ |
| 3 | Solland is now part of Wissenland and Drakwald is divided between Nordland and Middenland , but its memory is preserved in the name of the Drakwald forest . |
| 4 | For the most part the rule of recognition is not stated , but its existence is shown in the way in which particular rules are identified , either by courts or other officials or private persons or their advisers … |
| 5 | TEC provisionally accepted the role allocated to it by the DES , but its acceptance was drowned in complaints from a number of quarters . |
| 6 | These eerie coincidences are very impressive when they happen to us or to one of our friends , but their improbability is measured in only picodealions . |
| 7 | In the past , Quality Circles have been used in a similar way but their scope was limited in comparison . |
| 8 | ( £16.75 , £18.75 ) , but their popularity is reflected in the fact that tickets are already flying out the door . |
| 9 | The builders do not put money in , but their labour is recorded in the value of the co-op 's assets as ‘ loan stock ’ ; they have a stake in the housing . |
| 10 | Ruth Cohen looked very calm , eyes closed , but her head was enclosed in a rubber hood and blood seeped through . |
| 11 | Irina was not crying , but her face was contorted in what seemed a paroxysm of extreme embarrassment , even of fear or revulsion . |
| 12 | And er the story 's been told many many times that Lloyd George advised them , I 've forgotten the name of the old man , but his wife was buried in the churchyard , and his family wanted to bury him next to her , but they wanted the nonconformist |
| 13 | ‘ We do n't know that for cert — ’ began Owen , but his voice was drowned in the barrage of questions , cries of concern and comment . |
| 14 | His body lies in Westminster Abbey , but his heart is buried in Africa . |
| 15 | Charles now found himself in a situation that would often recur : he had important unfinished business in Aquitaine , but his presence was required in Francia . |
| 16 | But his face was set in sympathetic lines . |
| 17 | But his health was ruined in the works and he died in 1954 . ’ |
| 18 | Nevin makes a great run to the byline but his flick-back is missed in a goalmouth scramble by Malkin and John Aldridge before the keeper falls on the ball . |
| 19 | Hamilton never actually played in the ‘ 54 World Cup but his remark was etched in Scotland 's unforgiving memory . |
| 20 | Its central theme concerns a young man , Colby Simpkins , who has entered the service of Sir Claude Mulhammer as a " confidential clerk " ; Mulhammer in fact believes Colby to be his illegitimate son , raised by a Mrs Guzzard in Teddington , but his paternity is thrown in doubt when Sir Claude 's wife , Lady Elizabeth Mulhammer , claims Colby as her own illegitimate son who had also been dispatched to Mrs Guzzard . |