Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] but [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joey does n't compete in the short circuit section of the championship in which King has excelled but he has generally been in command between the hedges and today it looked like the same old story when he took the lead after the first lap . |
| 2 | I ca n't say I approve of what he has done but I do n't ask him and I do n't want to know the details . ’ |
| 3 | I mean you 've now had twelve annual statements , a piece of the policy has gone but you 've never |
| 4 | I am sorry Diana 's marriage has failed but she does n't know what a tragedy is . |
| 5 | Her performance was about what he 'd expected but they brushed through without anything too awful happening . |
| 6 | Come into work I think it 's assumed she 'd left but she did n't leave , she di she had enough of it so she had a couple of days off come in this morning and er I said to Steven , no idea what the situation was . |
| 7 | Sorry I thought we 'd finished but we have n't . |
| 8 | And I thought , well I , like , I know she 's got married but I do n't know |
| 9 | I think he might have done but he did n't say . |
| 10 | Yeah actually I could have had that the other day if I 'd have thought but I did n't bother . |
| 11 | One of the family planning workers laughed : ‘ It may have hurt but she did n't get pregnant . |
| 12 | This is something I was trying to get clarified but I do n't care really as long as somebody gets it . |
| 13 | When Gazzer knocked at the back door , she was thinking , vaguely , that she ought to get dressed but she felt too apathetic to shift herself . |
| 14 | I 've I 've looked but he has n't come in . |
| 15 | No um Michael Fraser Associates have now started a lobbying operation which is run for them by the former Chief Executive of the Tory Party in Scotland whose name I 've forgotten but he lives down at Tiningham in East Lothian ah , now if I could get him in if Fred does n't object and again if Fred did n't object and the other guy did n't object it might be worth getting a member of Parliament in |
| 16 | I was as surprised as he was at what time had revealed but I did not join in when his boyish enthusiasm took hold . |
| 17 | After he 'd gone Dad said he would consider what Mr Vulcan had said but I knew already what I wanted and I knew Dad would n't object . |
| 18 | They may be the best bullet catchers you 've got but they do n't have C.W. ‘ s experience . |
| 19 | She knew what had happened but she had completely forgotten the details — including the description of the perpetrator . |
| 20 | Maybe seven minutes had passed but she dared not wait any longer because who knew when the miners might give up and come back ? |
| 21 | By this time the rain had begun but it did n't dampen their enthusiasm one bit . |
| 22 | they 've started off with it erm the report described what they 've learnt but they have n't actually put what they 've learnt |
| 23 | Changes have occurred but they have generally done so gradually over much longer intervals than changes of government — in part as a result of changes in official thinking , in larger part through alterations in the complex relationships between economic ideas , political ideology and the force of economic circumstance . |
| 24 | She says I have changed but I do n't think that 's true . |