Example sentences of "but [vb past] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the officers whispered to the CO who nodded abruptly but asked his next question with less obvious sarcasm . |
| 2 | Otherwise no-one troubled him and he saw no one but shared his strange corner of the forest with the beasts of the forest . |
| 3 | The law ensured the " autonomy " of the armed forces but expanded their existing responsibilities for sovereignty and national territorial integrity to involve them in civil defence and the restoration of internal order at the request of the head of the Senate . |
| 4 | Tom Sutcliffe 's wife not only acted as his Secretary and personal interpreter , but made her own contribution to the cause for which he worked as a teacher of sign language and an outstanding interpreter particularly in the educational field . |
| 5 | Having kept many spiny eels , I only undid the bag a little to inject water in slowly , but made my next mistake in not tying the bag up again . |
| 6 | ON the day Forest not only climbed from their sick bed but announced their imminent discharge from the ward , Brian Clough may have been amused to note Arsenal 's third successive defeat . |
| 7 | but changed his bloody mind . |
| 8 | The Church looked to Jesus as the new lawgiver who had abrogated the ceremonial precepts of the Old Covenant or Testament but retained its moral precepts . |
| 9 | first , some peripheral areas were excluded from the new Greater London area ( see Map 2. 1 ) ; second , the number of boroughs was reduced to thirty-two ( plus the City of London which received the responsibilities of a borough but retained its own status ) ( see Table 2. 1 ) ; third , education became the responsibility of a new ad hoc body in Inner London and the enlarged boroughs in Outer London . |
| 10 | these women were often sweetly reasonable , but used their vaginal muscles to fight their husbands and were afraid of men who might make demands on them . |
| 11 | Lisa was a close friend of Tolstoy and Berdyaev but rejected their Christian ideas . |
| 12 | In a speech to mark the first anniversary of the overthrow of former President Mohammed Siyad Barre , on Jan. 26 , Farah Aydid stated his readiness for a truce , but reiterated his implacable opposition both to Mahdi Mohammed and to the idea of an international peacekeeping force , which he said would serve only to protect the " self-appointed " interim President from the Somali people . |
| 13 | They were not Maoists , but recognised his special association with Beijing University , the home of ‘ May Fourth ’ and to some extent of Chinese communism . |
| 14 | Following instructions to the letter , he rolled his body , but banged his helmeted head hard against the firm turf of the airfield . |
| 15 | Walton had not met him , but interviewed his surviving friends ; the Life was written with the object of improving the standards of the clergy of the time by describing a golden age before the Civil War in which the aristocratic Herbert had renounced a brilliant career at university and at Court for the vocation of a country parson . |
| 16 | Lacuna said nothing , but shook her huge head slowly . |
| 17 | He worked with the bovine strain , but confirmed his positive findings with virulent human organisms . |
| 18 | He admired recent Greek Revival buildings in St Petersburg , Berlin , Trieste , London , and Cambridge , but reserved his greatest praise for Paris , where ‘ grecian architecture triumphs ’ and which is consequently ‘ a better school for young architects than either Rome or Venice ’ . |
| 19 | Steve Gaughan should have made more of a dangerous free kick on the edge of the Stoke box but fired his 20-yard effort wide . |
| 20 | Founded in 1906 as the Agrarian League ( ML ) and renamed in 1965 , it was traditionally strongest among farmers and in the centre and north of the country , but owed its 1991 success largely to a breakthrough in the southern cities . |
| 21 | He was a historian of the Tudor and Stuart period but achieved his greatest fame as a historian of Bristol , particularly by his outstanding history of the Society of Merchant Venturers . |
| 22 | High Court Judge Mr Justice Rougier has cleared Oxfordshire Health Authority of any blame but expressed his deepest sympathy for Mr Atkinson . |
| 23 | In elections held on Sept. 29 to the city parliament in Bremen , with an electorate of about 500,000 , the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) , which had held power in Bremen for the past 20 years , remained the largest party but lost its overall majority and almost 12 per cent of the vote . |
| 24 | Coal has gained the electricity generating markets but lost its domestic markets while gas has made vast gains in domestic and industrial heating markets . |
| 25 | I caught nothing , but lost my favourite fishing hat , whisked from my head during a great wind that made casting almost impossible . |
| 26 | Peter and Ann despaired of Jacqueline , but feared her destructive urges . |
| 27 | Meredith kept herself as rigid as possible , but knew her whole body was singing with his . |
| 28 | Rain accepted this but knew his other reason was to check on the box beneath the floorboards . |
| 29 | SAINTS ' Matthew Le Tissier backed under-siege manager Ian Branfoot — but insisted his own future is still in the balance . |
| 30 | The States contributed some fine tries but kept their finest hour to a rendition ( it did n't matter about the multiplicity of keys ) of ‘ American Pie ’ . |