Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to say how long this species lives in captivity , but I had an African Snakehead , which I acquired at a similar size to yours , and I kept him or her ( there are no external sex differences ) for 13 years . |
| 2 | " I 'm so sorry to have kept you waiting , gentlemen , " he said , " but I had an important telephone call from Geneva highly profitable call , I might add . " |
| 3 | The Seychelles kestrel had so far eluded me , but I met an English birder while I was trying again to photograph waders in the harbour of Victoria , and he told me a pair had nested in one of the church towers in the town . |
| 4 | Once you were Wigg 's enemy — and this was a judgement reached by him and not by the other person — there was no pursuit and no hostility that he would abandon ; but I remained an affectionate friend because of the other side of his character , which would not even be suspected by those with whom he was in controversy . |
| 5 | Now I was I would n't say surprised because the matter is already well know , but I found an additional piece of evidence for the proposition that while they knew a lot about what happened to their commodities in their countries — how it was produced , how it was distributed internally and how it was sold internationally — they generally did n't have very much information as to what happened afterwards . |
| 6 | Ciskei was one of 10 " homelands " or bantustans created under the apartheid regime ; four of these , including Ciskei , had accepted a nominal independence from South Africa which no other country had recognized , but which constituted an additional obstacle to the transition to a post-apartheid South Africa . |
| 7 | If , he argues , the misery of large numbers of the agricultural and manufacturing proletariats at the end of the eighteenth century had been the general condition of the labouring population throughout the century , then industrialisation could not have taken place for it depended on " the home sales of articles of everyday life to a section of the labour force which was neither very poor nor very rich " but which wielded an effective purchasing power in the face of many difficulties . |
| 8 | ‘ But you had an unhappy love-affair and decided to cut it short ; yes , I know . |
| 9 | But you had an Irish mother or father . |
| 10 | She wanted dearly to inform him in no uncertain terms that he was in no position to make personal remarks of any kind to her , but she had an uneasy suspicion that any further rebukes on that score would only somehow backfire on her . |
| 11 | But she had an old-fashioned regard for the truth ; and besides it was time that she gave Strauss another chance . |
| 12 | But she put an involuntary hand to her belly , as if checking for signs of life . |
| 13 | But she threw an impish look at her employer . |
| 14 | And it is well known that , being required to prepare designs for a useless and costly object by one of our leading nobility , long since deceased , one of princely fortune , but who had an extravagant passion for building , he purposely appealed to the son to advise his father to give the intention ’ . |
| 15 | Er we got leave to use it in the playground as far as I can imagine but we made an awful division or if we did n't it pretty quickly in the class . |
| 16 | But there remained an essential difference between them : their choice of masters . |
| 17 | Those rumours were quickly quashed by the Treasury , but there remained an underlying conference mood of expectation and anticipation ; wondering how Mr Lawson would respond to party concern about the economy . |
| 18 | The third K2 semi had Harbold/Newton of the USA 4th 50m from the line but they made an excellent recovery to pass Angyal/Petrovics ( Hungary ) and the Olssons of Sweden for 2nd place , 0.03 secs separating the three boats . |
| 19 | His words were trivial — but they had an ominous sound . |
| 20 | But they had an early fright as Leigh took the lead after six minutes . |
| 21 | You said that the Blemleys were terribly boring people , but they had an excellent cook . ’ |
| 22 | To start with these outings on the ‘ sun-deck ’ were a welcome change , but they became an increasing strain as we really had nothing to say to the guards . |
| 23 | Did n't belong to the same people But they did an awful lot of trade . |
| 24 | The courts ' attitude did not depend on endowing the husband in such cases with the role of agent for the lender , but they demonstrated an equitable intervention in favour of married women where the lender knew of the husband/wife relationship , had done nothing to ensure that the wife understood the transaction , and she had received no independent advice . |
| 25 | Top weight and soft ground proved his undoing but he ran an absolute cracker to finish third to Sibton Abbey . |
| 26 | His mother leaned across the seat to squeeze his hand , but he felt an inner coldness towards her and did n't respond . |
| 27 | His occasional outbursts of anger shocked those around him , but he felt an uncontrollable flame of fury whenever he saw a child being bullied or mistreated which blinded him to all else . |
| 28 | But he told an Australian newspaper there was ‘ nothing more beautiful ’ than the centre court , adding : ‘ There are unbelievable positives with these strange traditions . ’ |
| 29 | As noted earlier , many of these concerned the design , construction and physical requirements , but he had an equal amount to say about the administrative aspects . |
| 30 | He had joined the merchant navy — Rory had asked dad about that — but he had an artificial eye , not a patch . |