Example sentences of "but [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't look around when she came in , but asked her over the sizzling of bacon whether she wanted anything to drink . |
| 2 | I could lend it to you but got it at the moment you know . |
| 3 | The group did not exercise its rights but sold them to a third party for £200,000 . |
| 4 | The people took most of the money , but decried it as a decade of greed . |
| 5 | She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod . |
| 6 | The doctor , a man named Champney , realised he could do no more for her but , on hearing of the stranger ( Mary Ashley did not know Tawell , but described him as a Quaker ) , he set out to trace him . |
| 7 | It meant that manufacturers no longer needed to seek their power where there was fast-running water , especially in the higher reaches of lonely dales , but found it near the canals which brought coal to them cheaply , or directly upon the coalfields themselves . |
| 8 | Further questions on unemployment ‘ people do n't want training they want jobs ’ , homelessness and the NHS left Mr Major a little wobbly but provided him with the best and closing line of the night . |
| 9 | Su Ragazzi , who are bidding for a league and cup double , beat Jets in straight sets in Sewell 's second game in charge earlier this season but defeated them in the return in Edinburgh . |
| 10 | There were , in short , pious men and women who not only failed to find it blasphemous , but regarded it as an integral part of their belief — as integral , say , as Peter 's role is to the Church of Rome . |
| 11 | AN OFF-DUTY police inspector saw the alleged killer of Marie Wilks but dismissed him as a good Samaritan , the M50 murder trial was told yesterday . |
| 12 | The Chinese also evaluated Microsoft Corp Windows NT but dismissed it as an incomplete and immature platform . |
| 13 | He did not in the simplest sense romanticise fact but used it as a way of making his readers see a complex and various world . |
| 14 | This closer relationship incidentally increased the role of the state in most of these economies , but subjected it to the risks inherent in the political strings which the lending institutions attached to their ‘ aid ’ . |
| 15 | So she was relieved , but at the same time a little chagrined when he did n't stop the car at all but drove her to the bottom of the footpath that led up to the Hoflin farm . |
| 16 | Finally , she left for the airfield in a pale-green safari suit , which marked her a soldier 's wife but distinguished her from the lesser spouses . |
| 17 | He noted that its heavy brow-ridges gave it an ape-like appearance , but rejected it as a ‘ missing link ’ because of its large capacity . |
| 18 | Corbett had no choice but told her from the beginning of the events at Godstowe . |
| 19 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 20 | Brussels had a river but buried it in the 19th century when it began to stink . |
| 21 | Unlike Richard he was not brought up in Welsh but learnt it as a foreign language . |
| 22 | He did n't put the key in his pocket , but hid it in the plant pot next to the door . |
| 23 | The owner did not intend to leave the registration document but showed it to the dealer who arranged a trick whereby the owner was called away on an imaginary emergency thereby forgetting the registration document . |
| 24 | The heavy labour not only fought the flab around his waist but cured him of the insomnia he had suffered from for so many years . |
| 25 | It was easier to follow in the darkness , but exposed them to the full force of the wind and rain . |
| 26 | ‘ Indoors ? ’ asked Camille , who had again nearly lost her temper completely but retrieved it in the nick of time . |
| 27 | With the short notice Lesley was unprepared for this event , having been on holiday the previous 2 weeks , and was disappointed in her own performance but enjoyed it as an international event . |
| 28 | Cambridge 1 Millwall 0 DION DUBLIN , Cambridge 's top-scorer , started the game on the bench but finished it as the match-winner , following an inspired double-substitution by manager John Beck at half-time . |
| 29 | The head of South Africa 's CITES delegation , Piet Mulder , agreed that there was evidence of SADF involvement in ivory smuggling , but blamed it on a few corrupt elements . |
| 30 | Several children did not join their friends in the water but watched them from the balustrade along the main road . |