Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [adv] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the second floor rose three very high , curved windows , originally , he suspected , an open loggia but now glazed and fronted with a low stone balustrade . |
| 2 | The flat , oblong tin was full of chunky rings , as dull as lead but interestingly shaped and bevelled . |
| 3 | Believe me , it was no accident but coolly planned and carefully calculated . |
| 4 | Now you not only had the wine but also found that the bees had multiplied , so that you could start off three or four jars . |
| 5 | The credits indicate that he not only controlled the sound but also composed and performed the music : this documentary is best regarded as a most personal and impressionistic view of the war . |
| 6 | My master , who had found a similar one on the port side , first tried his cloak but then cursed as it went into the lake and he had to stop the hole with the heel of his boot . |
| 7 | In 1827 he not only obliged them to start performing military service but also declared that Jewish recruits were to be enlisted at the age of twelve rather than twenty . |
| 8 | Ian Spiro was a novice in this league but still acted like he was in the big time , joining Lomas Santa Fe Country Club where membership costs ‘ tens of thousands ’ . |
| 9 | Bingham has had a number of options available over the last year but always contended that Rogan , irrespective of his omission , was still very much part of the set-up . |
| 10 | They went along with the feeling that Tony should have a non-residential supervision order but strongly recommended that he should change his school . |
| 11 | Volker Rath , the German public prosecutor , tactfully said nothing at the time but later announced that Germany was suspending proceedings against the two Libyans for lack of evidence . |
| 12 | The night of horror is wonderfully suggested in half-a-dozen groups , beautifully related in the surface-design but episodically conceived and covering different times ( Astyanax alive and dead ) . |
| 13 | Disillusionment is what Coranka Matic focusses on — the urban features , still preserved from the direct line of fire but silently undermined and distorted by all other means . |