Example sentences of "but [det] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , economy being of prime importance , he included , he said , nothing inessential to the art of gardening that might increase the size and price ( eighteen shillings ) , but neither had he omitted any advice which might be deemed useful to the profession , ‘ so that upon the whole the work is rendered as complete a system of practical gardening as present knowledge of vegetation can supply ’ . |
| 2 | Mrs Sugden meant no harm to anyone , but neither had she the intelligence to be really kind . |
| 3 | She had n't expected him to greet her with ecstatic joy — his emotions were n't extreme like Lowell 's thankfully — but neither had she expected a degree of embarrassment . |
| 4 | We do not want to say that one kind of state causes the other kind , but neither does it make much sense to say that they are ‘ parallel ’ or ‘ identical ’ . |
| 5 | It does not make life easy for George Bush , but neither does it make it easier for Congress . |
| 6 | But neither does it depend on some higher authority or a social contract . |
| 7 | Erm it is n't necessarily dirtier than the average street , it does n't necessarily have more dog shit or more paper strewn around it but neither does it have a , any sense of activity within it . |
| 8 | But neither does it appear inferentially open like " creative " or " poetic " metaphor viewed pragmatically ( Black 1979 ; Sperber and Wilson 1986 ) . |
| 9 | But neither does he resort to a more conventional heavy handed assault and battery , like the recent Mehta ( Teldec ) . |
| 10 | But neither does he fall back on the traditional liberal solution of improving educational provision , since he has no illusions about the difficulties of inculcating the civic virtues necessary for proper development . |
| 11 | I do n't think in his heart of hearts David Fairfax really wants to employ me , but neither does he want to offend Coleworthy . |
| 12 | She is sharply aware of changing social patterns , but neither resents them , like the portraits on the wall , nor approves them with an automatic word like ‘ progress ’ . |
| 13 | We were n't still in the push-bike and whistle era down here but neither did we have whiz kids from the crime squad on our doorstep to tell us what to do and how to do it . |
| 14 | The Puritans never sought persecution , but neither did they flinch from suffering when they were called to endure it . |
| 15 | Robert did n't want to talk to the engineering master , but neither did he want to go out after Aziz the janitor , who , in their first conversation in the Frog and Ferret , had made pretty clear not only his low opinion of infidels but also his readiness to use cutlery on other human beings with whom he disagreed . |
| 16 | She parked outside the high brick wall rather than driving on to the forecourt , and as if he sensed her reluctance to enter the house again he did n't attempt to invite her inside — but neither did he make any attempt to get out of the car , and they sat in silence in the light from an overhead street-lamp . |
| 17 | It is true , as Sergei Solov'ev pointed out , that " Fate did not send [ Alexander II ] a Richelieu or a Bismarck " , but neither did it send him a Metternich . |
| 18 | I had no wish to do so , but neither did I want to hurt his feelings . |
| 19 | I did not want to worry her , but neither did I want to discuss him , even with Margaret . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , I must say I did n't expect the red carpet , but neither did I expect you all to look at me as though I were the devil incarnate ! |
| 21 | ‘ But neither did she change the way she wrote . ’ ) |
| 22 | She did n't look frightened , but neither did she look as though she was faking anything . |
| 23 | The trouble is that he is not a natural core forward , which is partly why he has been shifted from lock , but neither has he as yet convinced too many that he has that instinctive reaction in terms of man and/or ball which enables the born flanker to do his stuff . |
| 24 | His experience had led him to become a teacher at training sessions , but that prevented him from putting into practice his own form of calculated waging of war . |
| 25 | But that cured me . |
| 26 | In his own defence , Trevor said , ‘ I know I drink too much but that helps me to give the kind of performance I think the public wants . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Ah , but that meant they missed all the glory , too ! ’ |
| 28 | But that meant I would be poor unless I married a rich wife , so he decided I should marry Bertha Mason , the daughter of his wealthy friend Jonas Mason . |
| 29 | Then coming along Street you come to the picture frame people and then the Conservative Club , then there was the big house further on towards the top of Street and that was owned by somebody named Winnie , was my second wife 's she went to school with her they used but her father lived there , and on the other side of the road you got the toy shop and er the draper 's shop on the corner of er Road then there was the newsagents and one or two people kept that , but that takes you from the top of Street straight the way up to Caldmore . |
| 30 | One could go further and give more weight to differences with lower sampling variability , but that takes us into confirmatory statistics and beyond the scope of this book . |