Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question for an Industrial Tribunal is not whether one of them was innocent but whether you carried out such reasonable investigation as you could and you reasonably believed it was either or both and dismissed them both because of that belief . |
| 2 | But when I looked over those I had kept , I decided I could not do so . |
| 3 | He 's been sleeping in the spare room , you see , but when you turned up last night , he moved back in . |
| 4 | He kept her waiting a couple of minutes , which raised her suspicions , but when he walked out empty-handed she smiled inwardly at having won at least one small battle between them . |
| 5 | It is not my intention to discuss medical politics , but as it turned out this was not an unhappy solution , notwithstanding that it married two firmly conflicting beliefs which have continued to operate , sometimes rather awkwardly , side by side , and may do so for many years . |