Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] but [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rose dropped the stone but caught it in time . |
| 2 | Norman Campbell , president of Darlington 's Chamber of Trade , welcomed the initiative but warned it would be virtually impossible to stamp out solvent abuse altogether . |
| 3 | Friends of the Earth , which has been campaigning for a clean-up programme , welcomed the announcement but said it did not go far enough . |
| 4 | Winnie made a face but drank it down . |
| 5 | He took her arm , and short of starting an undignified fight she saw no option but to join him as he strolled towards the white-painted gate , set in the surrounding outer stone walls . |
| 6 | Corporate Manager Ian Redpath also praised the test but admitted he , too , was told to take more exercise . |
| 7 | Brussels had a river but buried it in the 19th century when it began to stink . |
| 8 | Corbett had no choice but told her from the beginning of the events at Godstowe . |
| 9 | This was her moment , and she knew she had no choice but to take it . |
| 10 | The pressure of his hand increased as he moved nearer to her , so that she had no choice but to let him tip her face up to his . |
| 11 | And you had no choice but to tell him . |
| 12 | Captain Manvell was plainly astonished at Lord John 's swift collapse , even disgusted by the cowardice , but had no choice but to accept it . |
| 13 | Then Judge Shindler called back the 11 other jurors and said he had no choice but to discharge them too and order a retrial . |
| 14 | Many of them never wanted to lend overseas in the first place , but were forced into it by the internationalization of American commerce ; as their local clientele expanded into foreign trade , they had no choice but to follow them or lose the business to the money-center banks . |
| 15 | As Duncan had already decided not to leave the policeman to his own devices , he had no alternative but to join him on the next available flight to Tobolsk . |
| 16 | A four-letter word was among his offerings and the official had no alternative but to give him a warning for verbal abuse . |
| 17 | In the circumstances we feel the police had no alternative but to shoot it . |
| 18 | She had no alternative but to tell him a series of absolute whoppers , as her younger brother , Rob , would have said . |
| 19 | When she stepped into the helicopter in front of me , I had no alternative but to follow her with my heart in my boots . |
| 20 | The captain remonstrated , but eventually he had no option but to give it to her . |
| 21 | ‘ He overstepped the mark and we had no option but to suspend him , ’ she said . |
| 22 | They had committed themselves to a movement and had no option but to drive it through to its end . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought Flash was dying and had no option but to put her in the car , ’ Shepherd said . |
| 24 | Indeed whereas in Morgan v. Palmer the defendant had no statutory authority to demand a fee and the plaintiff had no option but to pay it in order to obtain the licence , in this case the corporation were fully entitled to levy a toll on the landing of limestone which they were not informed was to be burnt . |
| 25 | And although Steve Chettle is fit again , Republic of Ireland star Keane stays at centre half for today 's trip to Chelsea with Clough insisting : ‘ I had no option but to play him there . |
| 26 | The jury foreman confirmed that more time would make no difference , and the judge said he had no option but to dischage them . |