Example sentences of "but [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the face of a petition such as this , backed by the signatures of 105 of Stockport 's most eminent and respected citizens , the Goldsmiths were in an awkward position , which they decided to resolve by re-reading Sir Edmond 's will , to see what the Founder himself had intended : a classical school ( teaching Greek and Latin ) , without fees or social distinctions , but depending only on a willingness to learn . |
| 2 | Area fisheries officer Vaughan Lewis said : ‘ The Wye has a healthy trout population but silting up of the river bed can be a problem . |
| 3 | HOLIDAY HEARTBREAK : But returning home to a burglary can be avoided |
| 4 | This time , however , we were not going to the Consulate but driving straight to the border . |
| 5 | And still without needing to turn my head , but looking straight to the front , and walking at the same even pace along the path , I was conscious of a man perched motionless on the top bar of the gate , one leg over , so still that he might have been part of the gate itself . |
| 6 | She quickly changed her position , so that she was no longer facing him but looking out towards the lake . |
| 7 | But looking out of the window he saw the hills again . |
| 8 | The bacon is strongly scented , very porcine ; in the pan it is not going brown but looking more like a slice of pig than bacon should . |
| 9 | But looking down at the words now , it did not appear so simple . |
| 10 | But looking back to the principles of Beveridge 's plan for welfare , one of the main conditions which the originators made , in order that a workable system might evolve , was that reasonably full employment be maintained . |
| 11 | For all his claims to the contrary , his surface romance with immortality , Ali had a spooky bead on his future ; he never saw it sweeping grandly towards him , but bellying quietly along the jungle floor . |
| 12 | Shot and shell rained in on the village , orchard and chateau grounds , tearing up the earth , smashing roofs and rafters , but causing little in the way of casualties . |
| 13 | But pushing down on the legs stops them from straightening ; the legs will then have to work five times harder in order to compensate . |
| 14 | At the age of 12 , her life appears so carefree , but growing up in the railway town sees her family growing apart . |
| 15 | From the end of the lane , a circular walk may be made as suggested on the map , starting along the path to Selside but turning off after a mile to aim due north for the far end of the Allotment wall . |
| 16 | But hurrying back into the Chamber proved that the camera does not entirely lie . |
| 17 | The fuel gauge had gone on the blink shortly after the start , but pulling in for a pit-stop would cost him precious seconds . |
| 18 | But lying there in the dunes he had n't known what he knew now , that he had another and very different appointment to keep on Sunday , September the twenty-fifth . |
| 19 | He stayed for lunch , and then at about two o'clock Bill and Faye arrived , the latter walking from the car to the house but going straight to the bedroom to lie down . |
| 20 | But going down to The Bay were n't no good for us . |
| 21 | So use the normal rules on the approach side for those , I E roundabout rules , but going back onto the signals again , on roundabouts like that do n't give unnecessary signals . |
| 22 | But going back to the influence of Hawaiian music — would the bottleneck blues style ever have happened without it ? |
| 23 | She 'd say they 've just had a restaurant there , that would n't be so bad as a take away But getting back to the finances , I mean the Two Hundred Club over the years it has been in operation , I mean with what it gets this , what they get this year , supposing it 's not a thousand , supposing eight hundred , it might even be about eight thousand might n't it ? |
| 24 | But getting back to The Case is Altered : I supposed that if the people got browned off , as we call it , they 'd have a settin' in . |
| 25 | Bodie stood by Doyle 's bed and stared at the pale face of his friend , the eyes closed but moving restlessly beneath the lids . |
| 26 | Whilst agreeing in part but disagreeing substantially with the assumptions of Ludmer , I felt — and still feel — that the attraction of sport for black kids is a little more complex and that any full understanding can not assume that sport constitutes an area freed of racialism , or that black youths are attracted to it simply because they see it as such . |
| 27 | Under his direction , the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee maintained its traditional line that O'Neill was not responding to the legitimate demands of a disadvantaged section of the population , but giving in to the demands of rebels who would never be satisfied with anything less than the destruction of Northern Ireland . |
| 28 | Then he said , not looking directly at Simon , but staring out onto the waters that lapped the roots of the trees : ‘ Is the Lion in the forest ? ’ |
| 29 | We 'll take more of your calls later , but coming up in a couple of minutes all the top action from the Scottish League . |
| 30 | Ally McCoist 's winning goal spectacular enough , but coming up in a moment , exclusive pictures of Duncan Shearer 's equally magnificent strike for Aberdeen against Dundee United . |