Example sentences of "but [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trade unions thought he was going to be their president ; but so did those businessmen who want a free-trade agreement with Mexico . |
| 2 | A few bites followed but so did more boats . |
| 3 | More police arrived but so did more people , constantly . ’ |
| 4 | Jessica poured herself a gin , but only had two sips . |
| 5 | A back-up power system at the coach station did operate but only lasted three hours . |
| 6 | Knit together the first two stitches but only knit three stitches before you do the next knit two together . |
| 7 | Moss was in his early forties , but already looked ten years older than that . |
| 8 | Sicily for Pound never but once had any existence that was n't either verbal ( as in the wordplay on ‘ Trinacria ’ or the Eleanors ) , or else notional , ideological ( as providing a sort of slender mnemonic crutch for a tendentious reading of history ) . |
| 9 | On 21 April I sent to you a letter and a copy of a proposal for the above tape , to your address ( as I have written it above ) , but yesterday received this package back marked as not known at this address . |
| 10 | They had spent so much time together , but hardly knew each other . |
| 11 | This applied in all regions except two , but still reflected higher rates of loss in the North than the South . |
| 12 | Smith was a regular in the England Under-19 side last year but still played 15 games for Leicestershire and was out in single figures only once in 23 innings . |
| 13 | Methil was only developing between 1875 and 1900 but still shipped 400,000 tons in 1888 and was up to 1.7m by 1900 . |
| 14 | Shortly afterwards he was diagnosed as having Parkinson 's disease , but still became part-time coach with Sunderland before he was forced to quit the game as his condition deteriorated . |
| 15 | In the light of the methodological weaknesses and the fact that euthanasia without explicit requests was not permitted ( but still yielded 1000 cases per year ) we are not convinced that LAWER has not increased in frequency . |
| 16 | Parliamentarians scattered OECD statistics around like confetti , but carefully ducked any attempt at serious discussion of what the statistics really mean . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's friendly ! ’ he shouted over the engine noise , and he pointed through the windscreen at the concrete airstrip which not only had the yellow cross painted huge at its western end , but also had two trucks parked in its centre line , thus making it impossible for any plane to land . |
| 18 | Darlington Tory candidate Michael Fallon said Labour could spend a quarter of the £1m in borough council coffers on housing , but also had outstanding debts for constructing council properties . |
| 19 | It was especially critical of killings , punishment shootings and " kneecappings " and hostage-taking by paramilitary groups , but also recommended stricter controls on police and army use of lethal force , an end to destructive house searches , better investigation of extra-legal actions by the security forces , and the restoration of the rights of detainees to be brought promptly before a court . |
| 20 | A second test reservoir needed less pressure but also retrieved less heat . |
| 21 | Durán , 70 , a former mayor of the capital , Quito , and an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency on two previous occasions , received most votes in the central highlands but also drew significant support in the western coastal regions . |
| 22 | They secured eight but also lost three wickets including two run outs , one of them off the last ball . |
| 23 | By the end of the boom the machines confronting the average worker not only were more numerous than before but also bore little resemblance to those in use two decades previously . |
| 24 | The results at 32 weeks ( Tables V and VI ) confirmed the former findings but also showed significant interactions by calcium or small bowel resection with the carcinogen . |
| 25 | That was only a few short days ago but now seemed light years away . |
| 26 | Sukarno made a radio broadcast of sublime meaninglessness : Such rhetoric had gone down well in the past , but now made little impact . |
| 27 | Each had had a different school experience : one in a G.P.D. S.T. school right through from its junior department , another going from a local primary school to the secondary school for year , then to a formerly all-boys but now mixed public school up to the V form , and then back to the VI form College in her home area . |
| 28 | Samuel Pepys , the noted diarist who died in 1703 , dated his journals on the basis of the Annunciation , but invariably noted 1 January as ‘ New Year ’ . |
| 29 | Apparently random violence in certain streets enlivened the working day — but sometimes left physical scars . |
| 30 | The messages were often banal , but sometimes gave surprising information about a participant which the medium would not have been expected to know . |