Example sentences of "but [det] [vb past] [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 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 . |
| 5 | The Puritans never sought persecution , but neither did they flinch from suffering when they were called to endure it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I had no wish to do so , but neither did I want to hurt his feelings . |
| 10 | I did not want to worry her , but neither did I want to discuss him , even with Margaret . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 12 | ‘ But neither did she change the way she wrote . ’ ) |
| 13 | She did n't look frightened , but neither did she look as though she was faking anything . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But that cured me . |
| 16 | ‘ Ah , but that meant they missed all the glory , too ! ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But that brought her into contact with his hot , hard body , and she strained away again , aware of his sharp intake of breath at her quivering shudder . |
| 19 | But that led him to be grilled by detectives for two hours because he unwittingly bought a cabinet stolen from an old lady in North Oxford a few days before . |
| 20 | Certainly some people , particularly those who drew up the initial list of candidates , tried to gain advantage by appealing to tribal loyalties , but that led them to include candidates who were not Zuwaya , or not Magharba , in the hope of widening their mass appeal . |
| 21 | They wanted to get on but that made me swear if I ever got made Sergeant , I would never treat a man the way I was treated . |
| 22 | ‘ I now knew he was handicapped but that made me even more determined to keep him . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I missed out on the Olympics , but that made me even more determined to join the paid ranks . ’ |
| 24 | I said it was preposterous , but that made him even angrier . |
| 25 | He did give power to schools and parents , but that made him enemies . |
| 26 | The financial system was given more freedom than before , but that made it an even more ruthless broadcaster of economic frailties . |
| 27 | I tried to move away from him but that made it worse . |
| 28 | But that made it no less a dire experience for those who found their world gradually being pressurized , slowly becoming conditioned by a series of events beginning with the familiar friendly knock on the door — as dramatized in Thames Television 's play Not Waving But Drowning , produced and directed by Polly Bide , based on a real-life case history . |
| 29 | Anyway , there I was , going up this endless corridor , thinking what to do about the mother , who blamed herself — wi' reason mind you , she was one of those soft suckering witch-women , but that made it worse , not better — and there was th' trolley wi' the dead girl on it , sliding by me — sheet right over , porters in those soft theatre boots and floppy plastic bathcaps — and when they 'd got past me and were turning i n't door , the first one looked at me from under his plastic frills like , with my own face . |
| 30 | Even in her weakened state , she knew that her desperate need was irrational , but that made it no less important . |