Example sentences of "but [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environmental Health Officers did n't test the water themselves but asked pool operators if they were aware of the Department of the Environmental guidelines and whether they monitored the water . |
| 2 | Finally , some psychiatrists in the US argued that the black person was relatively free of madness in a state of slavery , but became prey to mental disturbance when set free . |
| 3 | They did not feel sensation , but became sensation , pulsating , thrilling , climbing , soaring , diving , and then falling back towards earth only to soar suddenly upwards again . |
| 4 | ‘ Wanted sheep but got cow , and it was promised weeks ago , ’ Iris complained . |
| 5 | It took no equity but got marketing rights , hence its new SparcSet chip set ( UX No 394 ) . |
| 6 | At twenty , he was too old for youth training schemes , but lacked experience for the type of job he wanted in book-keeping . |
| 7 | Luton had their chances after that , but lacked finish , with Harford once desperately close with a splendid header and Oldham always threatened to add to their tally . |
| 8 | Beethoven 's Seventh Symphony , for example , was exciting on the surface but lacked depth . |
| 9 | Whether as a direct result of this or not , the treatment of the antislavery agent and later rhetorician of radicalism , George Thompson , was noticeably cool ; he was eloquent but lacked education and was thus in ‘ entire ignorance of the tone of that high society from which the great bulk of our parliamentary men are taken ’ . |
| 10 | The design , according to The Saturday Review , exhibited a ‘ considerable acquaintance with the luscious forms of French civic flamboyant ’ , but lacked dignity and self-respect . |
| 11 | Winter corn must not be sown in the same land which produced it , but should be brought from distant parts to ensure a better crop , but lent corn may be sown from the lord 's own seed . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , the gastronomic-minded citizens grumbled , but made shift with the aid of the black-market , so that throughout 1916 the food scarcity was still barely noticeable . |
| 13 | This author 's subsequent papers made no mention of Scotland , but made use of techniques developed during the course of his fieldwork . |
| 14 | This author 's subsequent papers made no mention of Scotland , but made use of techniques developed during the course of his fieldwork . |
| 15 | She was acquitted on 17 counts of murder but admitted manslaughter during the trial which dramatically collapsed when the INLA bomb gang threw in the towel and changed their pleas . |
| 16 | When he did feel able to write to Coenwulf he reminded him of his humble origins ( but avoided reference to his matrimonial difficulties ) and exhorted him to remember always the very best features of Offa 's reign , avoiding Offa 's displays of greed and cruelty . |
| 17 | He was arrested , but avoided prosecution . |
| 18 | but failed goalie trials |
| 19 | At length I heard urgent but whispered conversation to the rear . |
| 20 | In our view , the advertising award of the decade should go to the brain who thought up the series of anti-smoking television adverts which did not even mention lung cancer , but drew attention to the fact that smoking gives you bad breath . |
| 21 | On South Africa , the communiqué welcomed the dismantling of apartheid but drew attention to " mounting social problems and declining economic prospects for the majority of the population " . |
| 22 | It was well received in the horticultural press , but drew fire from the advocates of formal gardening , especially ( Sir ) Reginald Blomfield [ q.v. ] in his The Formal Garden in England ( 1892 ) . |
| 23 | Deliveries , they warn , are likely to be a little late this year , but rose planting can safely be done in any frost-free period between October and March . |
| 24 | But in addition to great patience it does demand a little advance planning ; the business of adding the already garlic-flavoured and cooked but cooled wine to the cheese and eggs and putting the whole mixture together into the cooking pot is important . |
| 25 | The health authority had been looking for a site since 1989 but found difficulty in obtaining suitable premises in terms of locality , accessibility and size of ground floor accommodation . |
| 26 | Playing with the wind in the second half , Hanworth had their chances , but found 'keeper Robin Leach equal to their efforts . |
| 27 | He relied on outside specialists for identification work but found time to produce his famous monograph on Carboniferous crustacea . |
| 28 | He began his planning in January but found practice curtailed two weeks ago by a heavy snowfall . |
| 29 | For all these reasons , the ‘ Führer myth ’ could not be dismantled instantaneously , but underwent a lengthy process of decline accompanying the gradual but chequered disillusionment and alienation of the mass of the population . |
| 30 | He studied agriculture in England , but entered politics at the age of 21 and won a seat in the Sind provincial assembly . |