Example sentences of "but [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact Etruria was hit by incendiaries several times , but thankfully survived without extensive damage . |
| 2 | The Central London polytechnic gave an honorary professorship , but wisely refrained from public defence of its decision . |
| 3 | Nien held talks with his Chinese counterpart , Xu Dunxin , but also met with Foreign Minister Qian Qichen , Premier Li Peng and Chinese Communist Party general secretary Jiang Zemin . |
| 4 | US President Bush ( who had been head of the then US liaison mission in Beijing in 1974-75 ) , appeared to want to restore relations as they had been before the Tiananmen Square massacre , but often came under congressional pressure to adopt a policy more critical of China . |
| 5 | It happened less than 72 hours after Sampras had paid warm tribute in Frankfurt to the veteran coach he said had helped him so much in a year which began disastrously without him but then led to outstanding success in the second half of the year , culminating in the ATP Tour Championships title . |
| 6 | We got a little higher on this occasion but again ran into severe icing and again we turned back in order to find less cloud and less icing , on tie third attempt we were getting quite near the Alps and we were collecting a great deal of ice . |
| 7 | He also had a number of big accidents , but again reacted with typical determination . |
| 8 | He backed himself , tried to loft Tufnell into the wide open spaces down the ground , but instead miscued to extra cover . |
| 9 | She did not ask me foolish questions such as — ‘ How do you propose to go about it ? ’ but instead said with easy grace , reaching into a capacious velvet bag , handing me a card : |