Example sentences of "but [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group did not exercise its rights but sold them to a third party for £200,000 . |
| 2 | She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod . |
| 3 | Further questions on unemployment ‘ people do n't want training they want jobs ’ , homelessness and the NHS left Mr Major a little wobbly but provided him with the best and closing line of the night . |
| 4 | There were , in short , pious men and women who not only failed to find it blasphemous , but regarded it as an integral part of their belief — as integral , say , as Peter 's role is to the Church of Rome . |
| 5 | AN OFF-DUTY police inspector saw the alleged killer of Marie Wilks but dismissed him as a good Samaritan , the M50 murder trial was told yesterday . |
| 6 | The Chinese also evaluated Microsoft Corp Windows NT but dismissed it as an incomplete and immature platform . |
| 7 | Finally , she left for the airfield in a pale-green safari suit , which marked her a soldier 's wife but distinguished her from the lesser spouses . |
| 8 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 9 | Brussels had a river but buried it in the 19th century when it began to stink . |
| 10 | Unlike Richard he was not brought up in Welsh but learnt it as a foreign language . |
| 11 | It was easier to follow in the darkness , but exposed them to the full force of the wind and rain . |
| 12 | With the short notice Lesley was unprepared for this event , having been on holiday the previous 2 weeks , and was disappointed in her own performance but enjoyed it as an international event . |
| 13 | The head of South Africa 's CITES delegation , Piet Mulder , agreed that there was evidence of SADF involvement in ivory smuggling , but blamed it on a few corrupt elements . |
| 14 | Graziano , 68 , won the world title in 1947 with a sixth-round knock-out of Tony Zale but lost it to the same fighter less than a year later . |
| 15 | Women prisoners in Armagh had political status until 1975 but lost it in the following year and the numbers in Armagh rose dramatically during the late seventies . |
| 16 | The trial of Marion Barry , 54 , Mayor of Washington DC , ended on Aug. 10 when , after eight days of deliberation , the jury convicted him on one count of possessing cocaine but acquitted him on a second charge of possession . |
| 17 | After a three-hour retirement , the jury acquitted the appellant of the offence charged under section 18 , but convicted him of the lesser offence under section 20 . |
| 18 | He hardly waited for their introductions but ushered them into the warm , sweet-smelling room , chattering and asking questions like a magpie . |
| 19 | But the technocratic approach did not lessen discrimination but reproduced it in a subtler form . |