Example sentences of "but [vb past] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Doctor did n't stop , but shouted at the top of his voice for all to hear : |
| 2 | Black pretended not to overhear , but mused at the private world of women and the bond that had formed between the two . |
| 3 | Cathy Gunn 's Medeva jumped £1 to nearly £3 but sagged at the close . |
| 4 | He planned to send his sons to day schools , but weakened at the last . |
| 5 | She was apparently close to marriage on two occasions , but withdrew at a late stage . |
| 6 | Delegations from Algeria and Yemen travelled to Moscow but withdrew at the last moment in solidarity with the Palestinian delegation . |
| 7 | He made to stand , but yelped at the stabbing in his knees . |
| 8 | Concurrent lactation and pregnancy can result in delayed implantation ( i.e. embryos remain viable but blocked at the blastocyst stage during lactation ) . |
| 9 | But looked at a er at any ordinance survey map , they 'd have seen that they got the track plan wrong . |
| 10 | They had not confined their work to the schemes the judges selected , but looked at the remainder of the exhibition , and added eight of their own choice . |
| 11 | nodded but looked at an apple tree over the hedge . |
| 12 | George 's son , Robert Charles , qualified in medicine and was in practice at Olney , but died at the age of 34 . |
| 13 | During his teens , the newly emerging rock ‘ n ’ roll also influenced him , his favourite singers being Bill Haley , Elvis Presley , Gene Vincent , Pat Boone and Frank Sinatra , but his No 1 was Buddy Holly , who had hits with songs such as ‘ Peggy Sue ’ but died at the age of twenty in a plane crash . |
| 14 | Thus the F.C.C. was held to have surmounted the first hurdle of entitlement to enter the inquiry , but fell at the second because it had misconstrued the meaning of successor in title . |
| 15 | He did n't look at me , but stared at the ceiling , frowning against the smoke . |
| 16 | He did not raise his eyes to Melanie but stared at the backs of his hands . |
| 17 | The two girls , it transpired , did not work in a cabaret but assisted at a gambling salon . |
| 18 | Her distraught South African fiance Cuan Cronje had planned to accompany the two women on their safari trip but cancelled at the last minute . |
| 19 | He took no stand , but resigned at the last moment from the Lloyd George Cabinet so as to be ingratiatingly available to continue as Foreign Secretary in the new Government . |
| 20 | She hurried away , but halted at the doorway . |
| 21 | He turned to go , but halted at the door . |
| 22 | He was educated at Woodside Board School , but left at the age of eleven to become a cellar lad with Thomas Firth & Son Ltd . |
| 23 | Dowd was not invited to occupy it , but stood at the end of the table , mildly discomfited by the stares of his interrogators . |
| 24 | And the woman smiled but pointed at the direction that they were to go . |