Example sentences of "but nor [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 But nor does it matter ; ‘ our club ’ will have been seething with talk for days , and ‘ I ’ am bound to have heard about Stavrogin 's escapade .
2 To his great credit he comes up with no easy answers , but nor does he give in to glib despair .
3 A middle peasant is somebody who is more or less entirely self sufficient , he does n't hire any labour but nor does he have to work for anybody else , his plot is big enough for him to be able to support himself and his family .
4 But nor had she been allowed to use the telephone or leave the office , except for one visit to the toilet down the corridor accompanied by a sour-faced secretary who weighed at least twelve stone and insisted she leave the door ajar .
5 She was not frigid , but nor had she ever been a slave to purely carnal temptations ; because she had always placed a higher value on mental and emotional stimulation than on physical .
6 The unconscious blackmail threat levelled at his parents — he would marry Sien unless they accepted him as he was — had n't resulted in his expulsion , but nor had it improved matters .
7 But nor do I think that you should somehow try to cosset the position of the leader of the party .
8 In general the West Midlands advisers who responded to the survey did not blame managers for the lack of funds , but nor did they appear optimistic that more money would materialise .
9 Briggs and Nebes ( 1976 ) found no effect of familial handedness but nor did they find any effect of handedness per se .
10 But nor did I want to go out to work .
11 At this stage I could n't expect him to be on the bit , but nor did I want him slopping along .
12 But nor did it seem natural .
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