Example sentences of "but was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ambulance came and I was filled with delicious brandy but was instantly sick when I got to Imtarfa Hospital . |
| 2 | The gig continued but was effectively overshadowed by the possibility of impending disaster and it was n't until the encores of ‘ William , It Was Really Nothing ’ , ‘ Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now ’ and ‘ Barbarism Begins At Home ’ that they slipped into the comfort of early promise . |
| 3 | REGRESSION therapy became popular in the 1960s and early '70s but was later largely discredited , mainly because it is so open to abuse , writes Victoria Macdonald . |
| 4 | LEFT : Merrets Mill was used as a cloth mill but was later turned over to the production of flock , shoddy and mill puff , by the Grist family . |
| 5 | On this occasion he ran off across the field , but was later arrested . |
| 6 | One person on site was taken to the local hospital complaining of eye irritation but was later discharged and the crew of a vessel in the Humber estuary reported exposure to an irritant cloud , but not ill effects were evident when the crew was checked by a doctor . |
| 7 | He played little first-class cricket , but was later to become better known as the founder of a very substantial and internationally-known insurance broking business in Paris . |
| 8 | A former Soho waiter and later assistant banqueting manager at the Savoy Hotel , he was interned when the war with Italy broke out , but was later released to join the Pioneer Corps . |
| 9 | He fled but was later caught by police . |
| 10 | Dicks , already sent off twice this season , opened the scoring in the 10th minute but was later booked , along with Martin Allen . |
| 11 | The car , a Rover , was carrying false number plates at the time of the accident but was later identified by police as having been stolen from Roman Road , Colchester , on March 8 . |
| 12 | One crew member ejected but was later found drowned , the other did not eject and died in the crash . |
| 13 | Among several other flaws in Anselm 's election and investiture , there was one which neither Anselm nor anyone else mentioned at the time , but was later to be held against him by the papal legate : on a strict view , his election -in addition to all its other legal defects — had been schismatic , since the king and all the others who took part , with the sole exception of Anselm himself , were schismatics , for they had not recognized Urban II as the legitimate pope although he had now been pope for five years . |
| 14 | This first prototype retained the original elliptical wing and Mk I empennage , but was later updated to full Mk IV standard which included clipped wings , removal of the chin radiator to wing leading edges , and redesigned vertical tail surfaces necessitated by a change of centre of gravity position and directional trim . |
| 15 | The four were Donna Maguire , arrested in Turnhout , Belgium , on June 16 , who was wanted in connexion with attacks in West Germany in 1989 ; Gerard Majella Harte , arrested over the Dutch border on June 16 , after evading Belgian police near Turnhout , with a man provisionally named as Michael Collins who escaped in handcuffs but was later picked up over the Dutch border in Chaam , on June 18 ; and Paul Hughes , who drove through a police checkpoint in Chaam on June 18 and was arrested there on June 19 . |
| 16 | Johnson 's group succeeded on July 23 in taking government troops by surprise and gaining access to the centre of Monrovia , but was later repulsed . |
| 17 | The Tudeh Party appears initially to have decided to try to work within the new system , but was later subjected to pressure , especially in 1984 . |
| 18 | The invoice for the painting described it as being by Munter , but was later discovered to be a forgery . |
| 19 | The hole had been sown-up with nylon thread , but was later untied probably by the children . |
| 20 | The child was also taken to hospital but was later discharged . |
| 21 | He was taken to Countess of Chester Hospital , but was later transferred to Whiston . |
| 22 | Leanne was also taken to hospital , suffering from shock , but was later released into police custody . |
| 23 | Storrie fled but was later traced to Blackpool . |
| 24 | He suffered minor injuries and was taken to hospital in Walsall but was later transferred to the Wolverhampton Royal Hospital for his own protection . |
| 25 | I will begin with the Mad Hatter 's tea party , which was not in the original version but was later added . |
| 26 | She furnished Eliot with the title and central concept of his poem , but was otherwise more important for summarizing and reminding him of other people 's ideas , such as those of E. K. Chambers speaking of literary forms encompassing ‘ fragments of forgotten cults ’ . |
| 27 | She needed help to walk on stairs but was otherwise mobile , and indeed frequently wandered out of the house . |
| 28 | ‘ It had been left with a blue towel wrapped around its waist and legs but was otherwise uncovered . |
| 29 | It was the only maisonette in the block but was otherwise indistinguishable from the flats , with their mean windows and small , badly proportioned rooms . |
| 30 | She had displaced backwards the lower end of her right radius and sustained a few other minor bumps and bruises , but was otherwise intact . |