Example sentences of "but it [vb past] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A shot in the dark but it had struck a target . |
| 2 | Not one drop of paint hit the wall he was supposed to be painting , but it had done a marvellous job of covering the path and half a garage door . |
| 3 | The room smelt horribly of burnt rubber , but it had done the trick . |
| 4 | Labour may not have been able to maintain control of the municipal sphere for a prolonged period , but it had built a strong tradition of formal political activity which was to form the basis of hegemonic power in the interwar years . |
| 5 | When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel . |
| 6 | She had tried to imagine Tommy Allen coming into the bedroom and taking Fred 's place , but it had made no difference . |
| 7 | The 1902 bridge over the River Rheidol was passed for service last year but it had reached the end of its working life . |
| 8 | But it had served the purpose of making Jane know about her |
| 9 | You could n't say the free food and drink or the luxuriously appointed cabins had bought her , but it had affected the tone of her pieces . |
| 10 | Athens had been hot and noisy , but it had had a human heart . |
| 11 | The torrent of weeping afterwards left her feeling as weak as any new-born , but it had had a cleansing and calming effect . |
| 12 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
| 13 | Lord Hulton had only about thirty suckling cows but it had taken a three-hour rodeo to test them . |
| 14 | The company mounted a rear-guard defence of its three-pronged operating system strategy last week — OSF/1 , NT and OpenVMS — but it had left a lot of substance on the cutting room floor before finally calling together top industry watchers in Maynard , Massachusetts , and around the world for the ‘ Unified Unix ’ strategy briefing ( UX No 386 ) . |
| 15 | She had , but it had happened the previous afternoon , and Jack had gone with her to Rotherhithe Infirmary where she had been admitted with a broken hip . |
| 16 | Not only was the CEGB pursuing it too slowly but it had underestimated the potential , he argued . |
| 17 | But it had started an avalanche . |
| 18 | Stability had not provided an increase in the number of occupational pensioners , but it had provided a secure environment for the lucky half of the nation who were covered . |
| 19 | She had thought for months of trying to blow the gaff on the fact that she was past marrying off , but it had seemed a lot to put Len through , and her mother was anyway exceptionally good at not acknowledging that a gaff had been blown . |