Example sentences of "but [adv] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is an easy way to have a number of gliders wrecked by the wind , but luckily it does not occur very often . |
| 2 | Perth has a wonderful setting , and Sydney is beautiful with a really cosmopolitan bustle , but thankfully it does not have the enormous traffic jams which characterise so many cities of this type . |
| 3 | But mostly he did not need to talk at a bunfight , people came up and talked to him , and he would nod his head and smile benevolently and say happily , Yes , Yes , Yes . |
| 4 | But perhaps you do not see the same thing as I do . |
| 5 | She ran the massager up the inside of Sally 's thigh again but suddenly it did not hurt any more . |
| 6 | The landowner has the advantage of receiving a cash sum while still enjoying the possession of his land , but generally he does not have the security of knowing that the transaction will proceed . |
| 7 | The salesperson accurately identifies customer needs and relates product benefits to those needs ; the buyer does not offer much resistance , but somehow he does not buy . |
| 8 | Mr Slipper was still smiling but somehow he did not look very happy . |
| 9 | Aunt Alicia was old , she kept telling herself , and she 'd had a full life , and she died in her sleep with no pain , but somehow it did not seem to make it much better . |
| 10 | Some of the more irresponsible youths had tried to set fire to the building but somehow it did not catch and went out much to their disappointment ! |
| 11 | There was a letter from George Langley , from Cambridge , waiting for her at Bishopstow but somehow it did not interest her , she could hardly be bothered to open it . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's very pleasant , ’ she said , but somehow she did not want to talk about John . |
| 13 | It does grow less from the time her grown-up children leave the home and this crisis , which often happens quite early in life , often disturbs her very badly ; but still she does not see herself thrown into total idleness and her role of grandmother brings her fresh possibilities . |
| 14 | Step by step she was finding out but still she did not know . |
| 15 | But still he did not break his silence . |
| 16 | Frank 's eyebrows bunched into a frown at the mention of Ortiz 's name , but still he did not speak . |
| 17 | And now his experienced eye told him that the foremost ranks could be reached , but still he did not move , nor did any of the bowmen loose . |
| 18 | He was looking straight at me , but still he did not say a word . |
| 19 | The nasty , smooth , clean , man-smelling peg was laid bare to the length of a rabbit 's ear , but still it did not come loose . |
| 20 | As in earlier times , people moved frequently within a wider neighbourhood than the parish , but usually they did not travel very far . |
| 21 | But now they do not come at the end of the list . |
| 22 | The previous Chapter described the means of approaching a similar task ; but now we do not have any intention of launching a camera ! |
| 23 | She said ; At first I was worried but now it does not bother me . |
| 24 | We were back again in the Wolverton area , but now I did not care , and the house itself was luxurious compared with past billets . |
| 25 | This explanation may have convinced Hale but today it does not bear a moment 's scrutiny . |
| 26 | But underneath you did not think of them as individuals . |
| 27 | But tomorrow you do not go . |
| 28 | Keynesians see money supply as less important , but even they do not believe that money supply can be ignored . |
| 29 | We all know what the Labour party will do to the higher rate , but even it does not seem to know what it will do to the tax on middle managers — national insurance contributions . |
| 30 | Taskopruzade , for example , names his teachers and the works he studied under them in his autobiography appended to the but even he does not give the medreses in which he studied . |