Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Smith inspected the United Boys ' Brigades of America with her in 1907 but she died in the same year of a tragic accident , not long after their return . |
2 | But we stuck with the same tune that Wally had come up with . |
3 | In such phrases one sees a characteristic Tolkienian strength : his ideas were often paradoxical and had deep intellectual roots , but they appealed at the same time to simple things and to everyday experience . |
4 | He seemed to get over it , but he behaved in the same alarming manner in court this morning . |
5 | ‘ I do n't know about that , but it came to the same thing , I suppose . |
6 | This happened once while I was at Binbrook , and we were all jailed for a week — well , con fined to our quarters , really , but it amounted to the same thing . |