Example sentences of "[noun] but [vb past] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I flopped down in the seat but missed and landed on the floor . |
| 2 | He did not immediately get out of the car but turned and looked at Sara . |
| 3 | At first the gunmen fled in their getaway van towards the village but stopped and did a U-turn , before driving back again and past the spot of the killings . |
| 4 | Julia would not shut the window but sweated and shivered by turns . |
| 5 | He did not feed this to the eagles but sat and ate it himself , and spent more time staring into the deserted depths of Minch 's cage than any other . |
| 6 | Les , 59 , had gone to a Manchester BUPA hospital for a check-up but collapsed and died shortly after arriving . |
| 7 | He knew he had no choice in the matter but cursed and muttered as he fixed his saddle bags , harnessed Philomel and joined Cranston who sat slouched on his horse on the track outside the church . |
| 8 | Here , for instance , there is no doubt that Niki was of substantial help in closing the deal which brought McLaren the hugely successful TAG/Porsche engine , developed by Porsche but financed and sponsored by Mansour Ojjeh , the son of the head of Techniques d'Avant Garde , a French high-tech company with a substantial role in the development of weaponry . |
| 9 | Maximus tried to reconquer Rome but failed and had to call in the help of his British brothers-in-law . |
| 10 | The new , native-born administrators did not displace these Iranian settlers but imitated and co-operated with them . |