Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [adv] [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But somehow I just managed to miss Leading Aircraftsman by two per cent when I passed out . |
| 2 | The lieutenant had n't gone fifteen yards before the first bullet hit him , but somehow he still managed to carry on until he reached the wire . |
| 3 | The main point here is that not only did the Labour leaders reject the left 's version of the social contract with its new emphasis on a radical industrial policy , but also they increasingly came to question even the Crosland/Fabian/ ‘ Keynesian ’ version of socialism , so that their politics in the latter half of the 1970s became more and more of a mere holding operation — mere ‘ government ’ lacking any social purpose with a broad popular appeal . |
| 4 | I did n't twig at the time but really she just wanted to hang out in the shop and she was coming up with any old excuse she could find to be in there . |
| 5 | The chances were slim indeed but now she really wanted to go . |
| 6 | So my mum went out but then she still had to read it all because I was under-age and she had to be there . |