Example sentences of "but [vb past] with [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	Dr Arthur Upton , formerly director of the NCI and now with New York University Medical Center , was gentler , but agreed with many others that the distinction between genotoxic and epigenetic is useless for judging risk to humans .
2	Ancient Egypt has been called the infancy of the soul , but coupled with that innocence is the terrible knowledge of death .
3	In 1976 , the centenary of the event , Mr Alan Spedding , the present organist and choir master , thought it might be time to call a halt but met with such opposition from the townspeople that it was decided to carry on .
4	Some lawyers in the Soviet Union advocated the adoption of the Western principle that the accused is presumed innocent until proved guilty , but met with little success until the Gorbachev period .
5	Last year I set out on the same quest , but met with little success .
6	Charles told Jacqui the new information he 'd gleaned , but met with little luck in following it up .
7	The use of skeleton arguments has been popular with the Court of Appeal , but met with some resistance from some members of the Bar ( Blom-Cooper , 1984 ) .
8	There he sat in his writer 's hotel room , venturing out into a series of tight corners , filing his copy , then leaving for Warsaw to compose his short books — objects physically slight but charged with these confusions .
9	But faced with that kind of opposition the Yek would simply re-form and attack again , learning from each engagement until either they discovered how to defeat their adversaries or they were wiped out .
10	King Philip travelled south in an attempt to make peace but faced with such stubbornness on both sides he was forced to return with nothing accomplished .
11	Working on the same principle as a jigsaw , but with the reciprocating blade in line with the saw body , it 's used in the same position as a hand saw , but held with both hands .

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