Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] but was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Storrie fled but was later traced to Blackpool . |
| 2 | The National Executive Council resigned but was re-appointed on an interim basis pending the selection by Soglo of a transitional government . |
| 3 | The alarmed Body fled but was captured and murdered . |
| 4 | He wanted things done but was neither interested in nor concerned with the way they were achieved . |
| 5 | There was then a complex discussion of reflexes which both Millers enjoyed but was n't all that easy to follow for the uninitiated . |
| 6 | The gig continued but was effectively overshadowed by the possibility of impending disaster and it was n't until the encores of ‘ William , It Was Really Nothing ’ , ‘ Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now ’ and ‘ Barbarism Begins At Home ’ that they slipped into the comfort of early promise . |
| 7 | Woollen cloth led but was increasingly supplemented by a wider range of manufactured goods as well as by re-exports of tobacco , sugar and dyes . |
| 8 | It had been established nearly thirty years in the Chiweshe reserve , an area of land for African development , fifty miles north of the capital city , Salisbury.The quality of the land varied but was mainly second class . |
| 9 | One crew member ejected but was later found drowned , the other did not eject and died in the crash . |
| 10 | We should , as our French guest realised but was too polite to say , have eaten in lovely hilltop Gassin where vine-hung terrace restaurants offered menus gastronomiques and very chic settings for around £20 per head . |
| 11 | He envisaged modern states as becoming increasingly embroiled in the reproduction of a fit and healthy workforce ; a service which capitalist enterprises needed but was itself unable or unwilling to undertake . |