Example sentences of "but [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jacques 's flute method , compositions and instrument were not only characteristic of the early Baroque flute but elegantly expressed its aesthetic virtually to perfection . |
| 2 | It was very warm for Kirkistown and I lost concentration half way through , but luckily got it back together before the end . ’ |
| 3 | It was very warm for Kirkistown and I lost concentration half way through , but luckily got it back together before the end . ’ |
| 4 | She was about to kick it aside , but luckily glanced up to see Luch 's watchful eye on her . |
| 5 | Innocent did not associate Philip with the murder , but relentlessly sought the true murderers who were finally brought to justice in Rome in April 1203 and sent to the Holy Land . |
| 6 | During the American War of Independence ( 1775–82 ) British troops were besieged for three weeks in the autumn of 1779 in Savannah , Georgia , by French and American troops , but successfully repulsed the attack . |
| 7 | The 1969 Children and Young Persons Act had aimed to divert them from custody and care , but paradoxically had managed to draw increased numbers of youngsters into both systems . |
| 8 | She willed him to continue , but instinctively needed him to stop . |
| 9 | It will be better for the APB to issue a delayed but duly considered SAS , rather than one that meets an early deadline but does not adequately address all the issues involved . |
| 10 | In fact Etruria was hit by incendiaries several times , but thankfully survived without extensive damage . |
| 11 | But herein lay his greatest distress at this moment : he was utterly unable to name and fix on a place . ’ |
| 12 | He had early become addicted to radical causes but latterly had settled on those related to animals . |
| 13 | He wrote that he expected to find ‘ ideology and purpose , ’ but mostly discovered ‘ cynical platitude and intellectual laziness . ’ |
| 14 | Nietzsche 's varied contributions included poems , essays oil historiography and discussions of the medieval Nibelungen saga , but mostly consisted of musical compositions , an indication of his predominant artistic interest at the time . |
| 15 | His home sustained some damage , but mostly remained intact . |
| 16 | Somerset 's arrest in 1549 did not , as many expected , return the conservatives to power , but rather led to the primacy of John Dudley , Duke of Northumberland , who in alliance with Archbishop Cranmer eliminated the remaining conservatives from the council . |
| 17 | Such anecdotes can not be a basis for generalisation , but rather illustrated the response of particular children to their own improved or deteriorating vision . |
| 18 | The parents argued that their action was not racially motivated , but rather reflected their concern that their children should be educated in a school with a prevailing Christian ethos , which they claimed would not be the case at the school designated by the LEA . |
| 19 | Although it has been claimed that the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher had no carefully thought-through strategy to deal with the unions when it came into office , but rather proceeded pragmatically ( Roberts , 1989 ) , nevertheless ( Young , 1990 , p. 353 ) : |
| 20 | Lord John did not ride his horse , but rather drove in a gleaming open cabriolet that he had brought from London . |
| 21 | The scene was set for a movie genius but what was important for the history of the movies was that the genius who emerged to push the medium and the industry into a new era was a self-educated romantic whose values and ideas had not been provided by any distinctive intellectual tradition or urban political party but rather had emerged first out of his Southern , rural , Methodist past and then as he had drifted through a rapidly changing America . |
| 22 | In an earlier definition , where pragmatics was restricted to encoded aspects of context , one could claim that the relevant aspects of context should not be specified in advance but rather discovered by a survey of the world 's languages . |
| 23 | The mass popularity of the movies did not come about because showmen gave no thought to individuating their audiences but rather resulted from an appreciation that the most important thing about the public as a whole was that every section and every group would respond to the appeal of the movies if it could be given access to the right kind of cinema . |
| 24 | She was not lying down , but rather squatted quietly in the small portable cage into which they had put her . |
| 25 | the other hand he accepted the ministrations of Rosalba with pointed gratitude , looking up at her when it was her turn to bend over him , though she did not need to bend from the waist , wand-like as her sister , but rather leaned her plump body forward to adjust some dish , brush off some crumbs with a dithery movement that suggested — again he felt a stab of pity , followed by impatience — that her own body was always in her way . |
| 26 | The local medical men did not object , but rather commended them for their cheapness . |
| 27 | They have often not promoted the idea that human nature is basically sound if encouraged , but rather emphasized the need for a concept of divine grace . |
| 28 | Consequently , Jessop argues , the extension of the welfare state had no effects on deprivation but rather encouraged the politicisation of various groups in urban areas , for example squatters , tenants ' rights and welfare rights groups . |
| 29 | The most recent study of Neratius ' regulae has argued that while this passage is unobjectionable , the work as a whole was not written by Neratius , but rather excerpted principally from his works and probably published in the early fourth century . |
| 30 | But there were plenty of beautiful and recognisable faces to be seen amongst the anonymous , but none-the-less powerful , fashion editors , still enough buying power in this room alone to rock empires , even if no house made a profit from the couture but rather used it for a loss-leading advertisement and a mark of prestige . |