Example sentences of "but [subord] [pron] had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , as Counts of Poitou , the Dukes had been chiefly involved in northern French politics but once they had also become Counts of Gascony their interests turned more and more to the south , towards Toulouse and towards Spain , where they took a leading part in the Holy War against the Moslems . |
| 2 | And so with the help of these , they just managed to do a bit of slate , but if them had not gone back , I thinks this this strike would have turned the other way . |
| 3 | But if we had not had this event we would n't have had those problems.Its the issue of New Age Travellers and illegal parties that produce what you saw last night . ’ |
| 4 | His ideas about blood transfusion are mad , but if someone had not had mad ideas on the subject in the first instance , would anyone have subsequently developed sane ideas ? |
| 5 | Fourth , if , having acted according to these principles , he were subsequently challenged regarding the lawfulness of his conduct , the doctor would have the benefit of the defence of necessity if he had intervened , but if he had not intervened , he would not thereby be in breach of his duty to his patient . |
| 6 | Doubtless he paid a price for that , too , in the misery that darkened his later life , but if he had not felt that misery he could never have created the works he did . |
| 7 | Eliot borrowed from it for The Waste Land , thus making it permanently famous ; Pound could not have known of it in 1911 , but if he had then visited the Templars ' cavern-church in Aubeterre he could hardly have failed to remember it in the light of jessie Weston 's argument . |
| 8 | But if you had n't said it , Rachel … those barriers would have slammed back up and locked into place again . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But if you had n't come , I 'd have died of loneliness . ’ |
| 10 | the patch , yeah but if you had just glued that then |
| 11 | Brent London Borough Council , by which the social worker was employed and which was a party to the proceedings , took the initiative in seeking M. 's committal for contempt of court , but if it had not done so some other initiative by or on behalf of the court itself would have been necessary . |
| 12 | And even if it were possible , making debtors pay 50p to prove that they had paid off their debts seems rather harshly discouraging for them — it would virtually boil down to imposing a line on them not because they had been debtors but because they had now paid their debts in full . |
| 13 | He said Dawn was swimming on a Tuesday he says , but because you had n't rang up , he said , I thought oh , she must be coming to work . |
| 14 | Not because I thought I should have been picked there were at least 15 guys playing better than me but because I had n't performed as I felt I should have done . |
| 15 | But because she had not felt ready to go to bed with him he had punished her by trying to destroy her self-confidence . |
| 16 | Not because she was scared of snakes , but because she had n't given them a thought . |
| 17 | Beth was oddly relieved that she had not confided in Cissie ; not that she did n't trust the girl , but because she had never spoken to anyone about her family , or her reason for leaving them all those years ago . |
| 18 | It was bad enough in normal circumstances , but when you had n't slept a wink , when you 'd lain there suffering from shock and disgust , it was more than any normal person could bear . |
| 19 | But as they had n't seen each other since the day they both left the house , I did n't think my debut in The Jungle Book was the best time for a reunion . |
| 20 | She was of course interested in his progress , but as he had already told them , a mother substitute had been appointed to give the child his direct physical care . |