Example sentences of "but [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , that was in harmony with the thoughts of the ITF Rules Committee which had also met at Key Biscayne a few days earlier and had thrown out the idea of one serve instead of two … or changing the dimensions of the court , such as a smaller service box or a serving line a yard behind the baseline , but agreed to make further research into rackets , balls and court surfaces . |
| 2 | This had an iron undershot wheel but ceased operating some time in the 1920s . |
| 3 | Personally , I 'd not have made any heavyweight preparations but avoided giving any clues until the last moment . |
| 4 | Stewart shared a third-wicket partnership of 179 with Robin Smith , one of four men who passed 90 in this match but failed to reach four figures |
| 5 | A " wolf summit " was held in January to debate the plan , but failed to reach any agreement [ see ED 68 ] . |
| 6 | Sailing with about 50 men in mid-October , Ormonde had an uneventful passage from Normandy to Torbay , but failed to see any signs of a rising there and thereupon returned to St Malo . |
| 7 | They convened that day , but failed to issue any resolution until late on Aug. 3 . |
| 8 | In both Tests , two or three Englishmen looked well set , but failed to convert good innings into substantial ones , unlike India who won the first Test through Azharuddin 's great innings of 182 and laid the foundation for the Madras victory with Tendulkar 's 165 and Sidhu 's 106 . |
| 9 | A report by the National Human Rights Commission blamed the army for the deaths but failed to investigate possible complicity between the army and the drug smugglers . |
| 10 | Lodwick 's unpublished manuscripts , including an innovatory Dutch shorthand , are listed in his Works ( 1972 ) , all of which display originality and intelligence , but failed to find practical implementation by his successors . |
| 11 | ‘ We drilled two wells whilst I was in Brazil but failed to find commercial hydrocarbons and the office was closed when the work programme was completed , ’ he explained . |
| 12 | In three years the newly formed Red Army not only managed to defeat three White armies and detachments of their foreign allies , but helped to impose Soviet control over the Muslim and Far Eastern borderlands , and Soviet dependencies in Tannu-Tuva , Outer Mongolia and Northern Iran . |
| 13 | The new US approach fell short of outright recognition for Bazin 's government , but involved urging exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to meet with Bazin , whereas the earlier US position had been that Aristide should choose his own Prime Minister prior to his return to the country . |
| 14 | The need for these was identified when the regular programme of summer schools for ABE students began to attract students with severe learning difficulties who could not cope with the curriculum offered but seemed to gain great benefit from the opportunity for residential education . |
| 15 | They were dispersed by soldiers but reassembled to attack another workhouse at Bulcamp . |
| 16 | They did not confine themselves to church attendance nor to their concern for church buildings , but endeavoured to follow Christian principles in their everyday lives . |
| 17 | Tomo Cesen , the man who almost certainly climbed the South Face of Lhotse but forgot to take any pictures , arrived for his session with a highly professional career package . |
| 18 | Mr Dunn , who is based in Edinburgh and joined Ferranti in 1962 , confirmed last night that his departure was imminent but declined to offer any explanation . |
| 19 | In considering these results the NAC decided to allow resolutions on disaffiliation to be considered at the Easter Conference , but declined to make any recommendation on the issue by seven votes to five . |
| 20 | Despite the policy commitment to developmental work in Nottinghamshire social services department , the CMHTs were under great pressure to take on a normal casework function even in advance of developing needed services : health service priorities favoured immediate casework support ; area teams in the social services department hoped to off-load casework with mentally handicapped people — not least to focus more fully on work with children and families ; and the social workers recruited to the CMHTs were confident in their casework skills but needed to adopt new roles , skills , and ways of working if development work was to become a reality . |
| 21 | He tried to brake with this ice-axe but started turning great cartwheels , bouncing all the way down . |
| 22 | Boulton did not refuse outright but managed to get some mine owners to donate 10 guineas ( £10.50 ) to Murdock for the good work he had done on their engines . |
| 23 | She hardly listened to Mr Lessing 's explanation ; the tutor was his cousin , who had been intended for the Church but proved to have divergent views from his bishop , and had resigned . |
| 24 | The image meant nothing to him , but appeared to have great significance for the shapechanger . |
| 25 | Tony Blair , the shadow home secretary , attacked the Prime Minister 's approach but appeared to have common ground with Mr Clarke in a fresh approach to tackling crime . |
| 26 | This firm did not pass all its legal work to lawyer C , but did pass two cases to the firm during the two-week sampling period . |
| 27 | Last July a court in Aix refused Vasarely 's request to nominate a temporary administration to the Foundation but did appoint two experts to evaluate the assets of the Foundation and take stock of which works have been sold . |
| 28 | Mary and I flew back to London , but did leave some photographs of John for Auque , just in case . |
| 29 | Probably the worst example was a serious traffic accident on the A34 which did n't result in any deaths but did involve serious injuries . |
| 30 | Bruno de Bayser attracted a lot of attention , albeit no buyer , for a magnificent FFr 1.2 million ( £123,700 ; $215,250 ) red chalk drawing of a young woman by Fragonard a deliberately eye catching piece to show what the gallery is capable of but did sell ten works including three female portraits by Dunker , Jeaurat and Quesnel for under FFr 100,000 ( £10,300 ; $18,000 ) . |