Example sentences of "[noun] but [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not only widely respected as a critic but also regarded with affection for the genuine humility which made him always interested in others ' opinions . |
| 2 | After his release in the mid-1970s he became a successful businessman and hotelier but later went into exile in Rome , where he helped finance the USC , returning to Somalia in late 1990 . |
| 3 | He named it Stegman ( a steg is a male goose ) and it spent most of the summer on the reservoir but always wintered at West Birk Hatt . |
| 4 | To , to , to my friend who 'd bought me a , you know , a pint of beer I would have said , ‘ We wanted , I wanted , not only annual licensing but also linked to training and food handling , otherwise it does n't mean anything . ’ |
| 5 | One young woman claimed to have wept her way into a degree but once started on work and a career , never used such tricks again . |
| 6 | By raising the question of the Holy Places the French President not only gained ground at home but also set in train a long-term policy . |
| 7 | In six patients , however , HBV-DNA disappeared from the serum but quickly reappeared after discontinuation of therapy , indicating that persistent absence of HBeAg is the best indicator for termination of the viral replicating phase . |
| 8 | In the 16th century , Elizabethans rarely cleaned their teeth but instead gargled with sugar water to sweeten the breath . |
| 9 | He had been held scoreless for the first twenty-five minutes of the game but certainly went to town afterwards ! |
| 10 | The power of the passage lies not in mots justes but in the evocation of ideas at once old and new , familiar in outline but strongly redefined in context : like ‘ stocks and stones ’ . |
| 11 | It rose to something like 35,000 tons per year but then began to tail off ( see appendix D ) . |
| 12 | A 1976 Granada television comedy project , ‘ All The Queen 's Men ’ , featured an all-gay Army unit but never came to fruition . |