Example sentences of "[adv prt] but [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | The electricity authority said the only high-voltage power line had been brought down but it did not say how or by whom . |
2 | ‘ No , Delia , you promised , ’ Rosen broke in but he did not know it was an evening of broken promises . |
3 | The Collector did not know how the magazine had been blown up but he did not stop to wonder . |
4 | Blanche was right to insist that these leads were followed up but it did not look as if they were going to take them anywhere . |
5 | His pipe was out but he did not relinquish hold of it . |
6 | Calvin turns a little way around but he does not speak or make eye contact . |
7 | Her girlfriends , particularly her former flatmates , would have rallied round but she did not feel that she could inflict them with such a burden of responsibility . |