Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had no such indication regarding the black population . |
| 2 | She supposed that if she were normal , she would be hoping for what was known as a ‘ nice boy ’ to come along , but she had no such faith . |
| 3 | Again Jess tried to wrench her ankle out of his grasp , but she had no more chance of freeing herself than a snared rabbit . |
| 4 | But she had no more time for abstract thoughts . |
| 5 | but we had the same thing with , course it 's going back Joan 's generation er see younger generation altogether than mine but our , our lives were well we 'll say well my father was in the Secret Service , in the government , Scotland Yard but erm |
| 6 | Their clothing and equipment was more functional , but they carried the same pattern of long sword . |
| 7 | Er okay , different words to describe the same and indeed they did n't take out of any fund , but they achieved the same end result . |
| 8 | They 've got a different atomic weight , cos they 've got a different number of neutrons , but they got the same number of protons and they 've got the same pattern of electrons , and the pattern of those outer electrons is what decides its chemical properties . |
| 9 | When she promised not to attend any more meetings without his permission , they were reconciled , but he died the same night , probably of a heart attack , with only Agnes in the house . |
| 10 | As the pair reached the bottom he saw that she was , as Eleanor had said , very thin , but he noticed the same rhythm in her movements as she walked across the cove . |
| 11 | But he went a little way towards pacifying their incensed tour management when adding : ‘ We were beaten and have no complaints . ’ |
| 12 | If he had moved his mouth from hers she would have come to her senses , resisted , but he did no such thing . |
| 13 | I did try on a couple of occasions to wind the engine up past the 5000rpm mark , where the torque curve begins to fall away rapidly , but it produced no more performance than was available by driving the car sensibly for economy . |
| 14 | It might have been a tail light going the other way but it stayed the same size . |