Example sentences of "[verb] but [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of young hopefuls were interviewed but none possessed the elusive qualities Selznick sought . |
| 2 | His fist was bruised but he punched the wall again . |
| 3 | Dad saw what I had done but he covered the coal with an old sack , winked and whispered , ‘ Good girl . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It was the first production scale quantity of all-plastic laminated tubes we had made but we met the deadline , ’ said Betts Tubes marketing manager . |
| 5 | He did n't understand but he heard the word ‘ spider ’ and laughed , and she laughed too , until she saw how the light slid over his cheekbones and dropped luminous on his hair like Ember 's , then she was crying into the warmth of his shoulder and he took her through a linden-scented night to a place where her tangled feelings speared through tawdry lust into oblivion where she was n't alone . |
| 6 | In the end he always gave what she asked but he resented the giving . |
| 7 | Dalglish must have been batty , when Shearer is injured , they need midfielders who can score but they bought the one ( otherwise brilliant ) who ca n't . |
| 8 | The Tchaikovsky was decently played but it lacked the passionate intensity that the score asks for , if not demands . |
| 9 | The next day another visitor called but he said the same as the first . |
| 10 | This had already been binned but I binned the offer as well , just in case I ever came close to considering it seriously . |
| 11 | The thought of him being ten years old made the children want to giggle but they bit the giggles back . |
| 12 | The house is fairly modest as stately homes go but I knew the gardens were outstanding as soon as I glimpsed them . |
| 13 | Not only were they upset that some of their own work had been wasted but they appreciated the efforts their parents and teachers had put in to buy the equipment . |
| 14 | some do but She said the idea I mean she said about I was asked a question about an American we 've got that is with us but he does n't preach very often , and I said well where is he ? |
| 15 | my Lord , this is a problem which erm your Lordship 's had submissions from both parties and of course it goes to specialist separates , first of all one identifies , one takes one and strikes out the defending clauses within the agreements that infringe article eighty five on then applies the , the test of severance to see whether the residual agreements remain or stand , but we certainly have not depleted that the entire arrangement avoid but we pleaded the restrictions are avoid , my Lord er and that 's important because it could lead to consequence and we 're pleading it that and if for example er power in the erm standard form agency agreement was rendered void because it was an unlawful restriction , it does n't mean to say that erm an agent er a name might not of instructed an agent to write business , what we 're saying is they may not have instructed him to write all of the business that he did in fact did er write for example L M X spiral and , now if , if a particular defendant can say well have I been well you know proper position that I would of been and the restrictions not been in place I would of instructed the agent to do precisely what he did , then of course he has no defence , that 's a que that 's a point , if he says well erm I , the facts suggest and established that I would never , ever have allowed the agents to underwr to write L M X spiral business and , and the only reason he was able to do that was because of the restrictions then he can escape liability for that part of the business underwritten |
| 16 | I was too scared to reply but I opened the door anyway and hid behind it . |