Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were all sorts of different views of the future , but everyone had the same ideas about what was worth preserving . |
| 2 | He worked in another part of the factory , but everyone used the same coffee bar . |
| 3 | Many speakers highlighted the apparent paradox of a party which gave its blessing to separate internal organisations for both women and young people , but which denied the same privilege to its black members . |
| 4 | How could a policy be devised that satisfied the aspirations of the local majority , but which provided the same rights for other nationalities ? |
| 5 | But she died the same merciless death at the remote nature reserve on the Indian Ocean , 220 miles north of Durban — repeatedly stabbed and hacked to pieces . |
| 6 | but we had the same thing with , course it 's going back Joan 's generation er see younger generation altogether than mine but our , our lives were well we 'll say well my father was in the Secret Service , in the government , Scotland Yard but erm |
| 7 | I was laughing about with er what 's , I 'm gon na write er a note to my chi er letter to my children for , you know , before very long no good thinking about it , well you would n't think about it after when it 's too late , but my kids have been a you know a great comfort the four from my first Joan , Joan has too , she 's been a dear but we had the same problems when she was getting older . |
| 8 | Everyone knew this , but we faced the same problems in increasing efficiency and productivity as in all the other traditional industries like coal and steel . |
| 9 | Erm we also know that base five formwork is up so we started on base five as soon as we can , put as many resources into it as we can we mentioned earlier that er having five hundred people in there made life quite congested but we decided the more people that helped in there the better and er our objective was to get the er wall steelwork up . |
| 10 | The Polish presence in the city may have been small , but they made the most of it . |
| 11 | You could also find some letters that were confused , they did n't share common features but they sounded the same and they tended to be confused as well There was a lot of enthusiasm from the work of the neuro-psychologist th with the discovery of cells which appeared to be sensitive to particular features . |
| 12 | Clients in Ipswich were a little older than in Newham , but they had the same mean OBS score ( see Table 2.3 ) . |
| 13 | Their clothing and equipment was more functional , but they carried the same pattern of long sword . |
| 14 | Er okay , different words to describe the same and indeed they did n't take out of any fund , but they achieved the same end result . |
| 15 | They 've got a different atomic weight , cos they 've got a different number of neutrons , but they got the same number of protons and they 've got the same pattern of electrons , and the pattern of those outer electrons is what decides its chemical properties . |
| 16 | The next day another visitor called but he said the same as the first . |
| 17 | Outwardly Carter was more polite towards Congress than Nixon had been , but he shared the latter 's contempt for the legislature and was no less shocked by its disorderly , undisciplined ways and its vulnerability to special interests . |
| 18 | He was not as clever as his half-brother , Sally-Anne 's father , but he shared the same intensely practical outlook on life . |
| 19 | When she promised not to attend any more meetings without his permission , they were reconciled , but he died the same night , probably of a heart attack , with only Agnes in the house . |
| 20 | In politics he was usually to the left of H. M. Hyndman , whom he much admired , but he accepted the latter 's scepticism towards trade unionism and its place in the socialist movement . |
| 21 | Maxwell-Fyfe replied that virulent anti-Americanism was confined to a small minority , but he made the most of the opportunity to spell out the extent of British alarm over what the Americans were doing or might do in the Far East . |
| 22 | As the pair reached the bottom he saw that she was , as Eleanor had said , very thin , but he noticed the same rhythm in her movements as she walked across the cove . |
| 23 | But he gave the all clear after testing most of the track in the post lunch stroll . |
| 24 | He rejected the identification of time with the circular motion of the heavens , but he regarded the latter as the perfect example of uniform motion . |
| 25 | Not so blatant now , but it meant the same . |
| 26 | It might have been a tail light going the other way but it stayed the same size . |