Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Erm I 've played with Clyde Ladies for about five years but previously I played with Stewarton .
2 Carrie was good at stories but sometimes she stopped in the middle and had to be prodded .
3 He had not brought his writing tray or materials but mentally he went through each of the deaths he had investigated , trying to fix a pattern , with little success .
4 He 'd lost the leather jacket and the boots but maybe he slept in the trousers .
5 Pressurised steam is less potent than gunpowder and so the cannon has a shorter range than muzzle-loaded cannons but otherwise it works in the same way .
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