Example sentences of "but it [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of this necessarily involved fighting between French and British , but it came at a time when the British Company was revising its policy of relying on the Moghul Emperor and on the successes of Englishmen outside India to protect its position . |
| 2 | This bias was particularly strong during our Pre-Campaign Wave in March when Prime Minister Thatcher visited Moscow but it continued at a reduced level throughout the final campaign . |
| 3 | You 'it acrorst the line o' the ball , I grant yer , but it come at a fair lick , one bounce . ’ |
| 4 | There is an alternative route which is longer and involves slightly more climbing , but it stays at a lower level , never rising higher than 1,600ft . |
| 5 | But it stopped at the sky . |
| 6 | But it stopped at the neck , and its body did not appear . |
| 7 | But it did at the time appear rather a , the last thing |
| 8 | But it emerged at the meeting , held in Yokohama , Japan , that only seven of its 47 member governments had prepared strategies for meeting this target . |
| 9 | With a little moan of fear she scrambled out of the car and raced to the house to hammer on the door , but it opened at the first blow from her fist . |
| 10 | It 's a very funny joke , but it works at the expense of treating her like a child , which is not at all what the novel usually intends . |