Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] but [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Storrie fled but was later traced to Blackpool . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The steam boiler was originally coal fired but is now fuelled by oil . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One crew member ejected but was later found drowned , the other did not eject and died in the crash . |
| 7 | 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 . |