Example sentences of "but [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various schemes had been tried on Easter Monday to raise money — chrysanthemum shows and egg and spoon races included — but nothing had really developed . |
| 2 | But nothing had prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh , says Morton . |
| 3 | But nothing had prepared her for the monumental size and sheer glamour of the building . |
| 4 | It seemed like hours since she had slipped away to find Ace , but nothing had changed much . |
| 5 | He told me he had been a sailor , had known the bitter odour of disease and been a casualty in the wars of the elements , but nothing had been as dire as the loss of his woman to another . |
| 6 | She had been coldly beautiful until the day she died , but nothing had brought her happiness . |
| 7 | The Cabinet had been summoned for 5 o'clock , but nothing had leaked out . |
| 8 | ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ had just been released in England and David was doing well with it , or so I 'm told , but no-one had heard of him at all in America , so Tony DeFries gave us each a box of 25 albums to just give to whoever we thought was cool , which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea . |
| 9 | The money would pay for everything anybody needed , but no-one had more than five or ten dollars in their pockets . |
| 10 | They saw better and I had more space to work in ; but no-one had thought of it before . |
| 11 | The plan had been for the Americans to discover an unknown for the lead female role but no-one had Miss Leigh 's screen magic . |
| 12 | But no-one had caught her . |
| 13 | When , in 1989 , we started to explore the involvement of this mechanism in passive avoidance learning , there had already been a lot of speculation in the molecular neurobiology literature about whether it would be possible to show that c-fos and c-jun were specifically activated during memory formation ; but no-one had yet done the key , unequivocal experiment . |
| 14 | They 'd had a choreographer in when the show had first been set up , but no-one had been near it since ; replacement dancers had to pick up the routines from the others , and some of the results could be kind of interesting . |
| 15 | For part of the trip in a flat bed truck they 'd been acompanied by armed guards , but no-one had told them why . |
| 16 | When I went to the bus I realised I only had one bag instead of two so I rushed back but no-one had seen the bag in the pub or the shops . |
| 17 | But no-one had been able to match the Lancashire company 's price . |
| 18 | There were all sorts of different views of the future , but everyone had the same ideas about what was worth preserving . |
| 19 | For most of us they were n't , but everyone had felt that they had to mark the day , and what else could we do ? |
| 20 | But everyone had soup , ’ he added defensively . |
| 21 | But I had very little idea of anything at the time and I did n't do very much acting . |
| 22 | I knew the face and knew at once that we had been intimate , but I had no idea who she was . |
| 23 | But I had heard that in the South things are better . ’ |
| 24 | But I had forgotten about Nanny . |
| 25 | He was hesitating , but I had now shot my bolt . |
| 26 | Bored and lonely , yes , but I had a reasonably pleasant time of things all the same . |
| 27 | Everything of mine at that stage was still packed , but I had set aside a separate box for tea and coffee things so tea was easy to arrange . |
| 28 | In my own case I had been taught by Okely to avoid the split between subjectivism and an objective reality , but I had no preparation to contend with the changes which the field experience created in me . |
| 29 | I knew Oscar would have preferred a quieter , less raucous venture , on a weekday perhaps , but I had to work on certain days and those days came up during his visit . |
| 30 | ‘ People said I was too old in 1985 , but I had confidence in my own ability , ’ he said . |