Example sentences of "but [Wh pn] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking into her great eyes , their blue so dark that it was almost black , he was uncomfortably aware that having Miss Sally-Anne McAllister in the house was a most disturbing influence on a man who had not only denied himself sexually for some years , but who had rarely mixed with young women at all since he had left the army . |
| 2 | Following on from the analysis of known heroin use , the second stage of the ethnographic work involved contacting the ‘ hidden ’ sector , those who had used heroin during the course of the prevalence study period , but who had not come into contact with any of the ten statutory or voluntary agencies surveyed . |
| 3 | An elderly man named John Thomas , who was still a member of the Association of Foremen Lightermen but who had not worked in that capacity for some two years and who was now a watchman , was approached to join Harry Gosling 's Amalgamated Society of Watermen , Lightermen and Watchmen of the River Thames . |
| 4 | Flaherty took a drop more of the giants ' mulled wine than was good for him and very nearly disgraced his fellows by reciting an extremely improper poem , describing the exploits of a fair maiden who had fallen foul of a wicked and lustfully intentioned knight , but who had then escaped by invoking a demon who withered the knight 's passion . |
| 5 | There have been a number of other dukes , earls and barons who were deaf but who have not aspired to political life . |