Example sentences of "but [pron] had [adv] [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe I delivered my opinion more bluntly than I should have , but I had always been candid with Ted . |
| 2 | But she had only been one of two . |
| 3 | She had a driving licence , which would enable her to drive the practice 's pet-ambulance , but she had never been able to save much from her salary . |
| 4 | But there had also been this other vision — of the ‘ green wood full of primroses ’ — which he had glimpsed through a hole in the wall , and which promised all the things which Lewis and Greeves had come to label ‘ It ’ or ‘ Joy ’ . |
| 5 | High levels of nitrate can cause ‘ blue baby syndrome ’ ( infantile methaemoglobinaemia ) , which is potentially fatal ( see below : Government Advice ) , but there had only been 3,000 cases worldwide since 1945 , and 14 in the UK since 1950 . |
| 6 | But there had never been any attempt to align other CSE grades to O level grades and it was no part of the assumptions of the dual system that someone who failed O level ( below grade E ) was of ‘ average ’ ability ( CSE grade 4 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Correct ’ treatment of prisoners had always been acknowledged , but there had never been any mention of civilian suits or bottles of whisky . |
| 8 | Carson said that in theory his own place was within the flood basin , but there had never been any trouble as long as he 'd lived there ; places right on the towpath used to get flooded regularly when the tide was high . |
| 9 | From the 1650s onwards , judges had ordered convicts to be transported , but they had only been able to do this by passing a death sentence and then getting it commuted . |
| 10 | Of Korean communists associated with Russia , the best known was Kim Il Sung but he had also been involved with the CCP . |
| 11 | But he had never been closer to it than the road and now , driving up to it , it struck him again that the description ‘ cottage ’ was hardly appropriate . |
| 12 | His nanny had scolded him over and over , but he had never been able to stop . |
| 13 | Adam might have escaped the file memories for years , suppressed them and jerked violently away from them , but he had never been able to pretend he was unscathed by those events . |
| 14 | " Tricky Dick " Nixon was an astute party politician , but he had never been able to project an appealing public " image " . |
| 15 | Grunte was ancient , but he had always been nice to her . |
| 16 | But he had obviously been right about Damian Flint . |
| 17 | But it had all been real . |
| 18 | But it had always been dark , and he had always been anxious to get back to Cheltenham , where he lived . |
| 19 | The petal was faded now but it had once been bright pink . |