Example sentences of "but [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Korea negotiations for an armistice began in the summer of 1951 , but became bogged down as the American nation , unused to anything but total success , grew weary of the struggle , which dragged on indecisively throughout the remainder of Truman 's Presidency . |
| 2 | He was still suffering from jet-lag but opted to plunge in at the deep end against Monaghan . |
| 3 | She alighted after him , and she crossed the footbridge too , but delayed stepping on to the platform until the train for Waterloo came in . |
| 4 | Goldner toyed with the offer , but decided to stay on at the Getty after negotiating a new contract that allowed him to remain in his hometown of New York most of the year ( with short stays in Malibu ) , in effect managing and adding to the Getty 's collection in absentia . |
| 5 | The children did n't talk about the kidnapping , but kept glancing out of the windows and stopped trusting the adults who looked after them . |
| 6 | Dulé 's canoe had not foundered in the first rounds of gunfire , but kept skimming on towards the Rebecca , with the remaining boats still around him , offering cover . |
| 7 | And when someone said of a close relative , ‘ He 's a doorkeeper ’ , he was careful to make plain that his father or uncle did not need to work , but liked to get out of the house to chat with other old men and to draw a salary for it , rather than a pension . |
| 8 | Jilly Jonathan was pale but had calmed down after the bout of hysterical weeping that had overcome her once they had got her to the hotel . |
| 9 | János Hunyadi was regent of Hungary during the minority of King Ladislas V , but had to step down at the very moment of the fall of Constantinople when Ladislas came of age . |
| 10 | Smith should have been on the bench for London 's game against the Midlands last Saturday but had to drop out with the same complaint . |
| 11 | Smith should have been on the bench for London 's game against the Midlands last Saturday but had to drop out with the same complaint . |
| 12 | Clearly the pilot had not wasted time calculating an entry angle , but had bored down through the upper atmosphere as directly as he was able . |
| 13 | He had proposed the visit to Burford on 17 May 1968 but had dropped out of the ill-fated return journey . |
| 14 | Innes McInnes was obviously a soup-meat-cheese man from way back , but had come up in the world . |
| 15 | He did not touch , but stood looking down at the page . |
| 16 | I have been intreated during these weeks , cajoled , wheedled , almost caressed , tortured , threatened , brow-beaten and all but blackmailed to step in as the saviour of society . ’ |