Example sentences of "[noun] but [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the war , every spell of Anfield success has been set or kept in motion by the signing of a top-class ‘ striker-cum-provider ’ a player who not only scored goals but also made them for his colleagues . |
| 2 | She allowed the idea of falling in love with him dance across her mind but soon dismissed it with a smile . |
| 3 | They were heading for the besieged Bosnian town of Travnik but never reached it . |
| 4 | She 'd had a 24-hour labour but often said she did n't know what all the fuss was about these days . |
| 5 | Lord Dawson of Penn , that specialist in the industrial diseases of politicians , joined in the general chorus of congratulation but also told him , speaking medically and not politically : ‘ You will pay for this . ’ |
| 6 | Bayezid II was won over by Mueyyedzade 's arguments and not only appointed Kemalpasazade to the Taslik medrese but also charged him with writing a history of the Ottoman dynasty in Turkish to serve as a companion piece to that being written in Persian by Idris Bitlisi |
| 7 | Emily felt angry words rise to her lips but quickly suppressed them , this was neither the time nor the place to argue Craig 's innocence . |
| 8 | ICAS welcomed the review but also said it was a timely reminder of archaic and unnecessary burdens in the UK tax system and urged an independent examination by a working party of all interested bodies to tackle problems close to home . |
| 9 | Like Mr Kravchuk , Khmelnytsky won independence for Ukraine but then lost it by making a fatal alliance with Russia . |
| 10 | Last month , following Johnson 's admissions at the inquiry that he had taken drugs and not failed drug tests , the IAAF decided to strip him of his world records retrospectively and enacted legislation which would punish any athlete who passed a drug test but subsequently admitted he was an offender . |
| 11 | While cutting rebates and slots , two problems occurred on the curved members , firstly the glazing rebate because of the weight and length of curved members and the limited table size of my router , I decided to take the router to the wood and not the wood to the router but then realised I would be machining away the surface I wanted to guide the router on i.e the inside face which is the true radius . |
| 12 | Wishart had considered Edward of England but then dismissed him . |
| 13 | Indeed , it was a precocious interest in Wealden fossils that led to the assembly of a large and valuable collection that was donated in 1884 to the newly opened Natural History Museum in South Kensington , and which gained him not only the title of honorary collector for the museum but also brought him the coveted fellowship of the London Geological Society at the age of twenty-one . |
| 14 | Edouard invented that fake message about the museum but why did he send your crook up there after me ? |
| 15 | Approached by American conspirators , such as Aaron Burr , who sought British aid in their plots of disunion , Merry listened to the plotters but never abetted them . |
| 16 | The resulting radical pollution control programme outlined by Nixon , calling for a 90 per cent reduction in vehicle emissions by 1980 , not only led to him being credited ( albeit briefly ) as policy initiator of an environmental clean-up but also provided him with the chance to deal a blow to one of his most important opponents in the 1972 elections , Edmund Muskie . |
| 17 | It had been Kurt who had set up the dozens of licensing deals for menswear and toiletries , bedlinen and beachwear , soft furnishings and costume jewellery , all bearing the name of Hugo Varna , which had not only saved him from bankruptcy but also made him his first million . |
| 18 | King Edward had used them in Wales as war dogs but later had them killed because , in their blood lust , they had failed to distinguish between friend and foe . |
| 19 | The 1865 Salon did exhibit Manet 's Olympia but quickly moved it to a place that made viewing almost impossible for the public . |
| 20 | The first comment may mean that the child has no experience of seeing rusted metal , or she may have seen rusty objects but not connected them in any way with exposure to air and moisture . |
| 21 | But there were plenty of beautiful and recognisable faces to be seen amongst the anonymous , but none-the-less powerful , fashion editors , still enough buying power in this room alone to rock empires , even if no house made a profit from the couture but rather used it for a loss-leading advertisement and a mark of prestige . |
| 22 | ‘ At the time I had no real plans but just knew I wanted to be in a group . |
| 23 | More often than not , she did stay behind to do this little chore but never did she resent it . |
| 24 | It stated the soldier 's undying love for his wife but also made it plain that he realised that they could not live in harmony , so they had better not see each other . |
| 25 | The official attempts to persuade and coerce through propaganda , ideological work and threats contained the problems but never resolved them . |
| 26 | The bishops also argued that any so-called restricted form of divorce was impossible to maintain in practice and that divorce might solve the partners ' problems but only created them for the children . |
| 27 | I saw her knock back a few glasses but never saw her tight ! |
| 28 | Six sent me a summary of his career but even refused me access to all his personal files . ’ |
| 29 | The reality was that these otherwise respectable women consented to spend a night in the same room as the supposedly erring husband , but in circumstances which not only discouraged passion but positively precluded it . |
| 30 | McConville and Lurgan Community workshop initially denied the allegations but later admitted them . |