Example sentences of "but soon [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles E. Wilson , the newly appointed Secretary of Defence , graduated as an engineer but soon realised there were better things in life and he took a course in commerce and went into business and is now engaged in the most complicated of businesses — that of running a country . |
| 2 | A 30-yearold ex-stockbroker , she was recruited from Oxford by a merchant bank in the early 1980s , but soon realised the City was not the place it had been . |
| 3 | After the trials of Halton , Cranwell was a haven , With my pay now being nearly 30 a week , I invested in a motorcycle — a square tank Rudge of questionable vintage — for £4 ( at a pound a week ) , but soon cured myself of the motorcycle bug that seemed to affect us all at the time . |
| 4 | After the establishment by the Viet Minh of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( DRV ) in the north in 1945 , he was dispatched to the South during the war against the French in the early 1950s , but soon returned to Hanoi and to a place in the Communist Party politburo , Vietnam having meanwhile , in 1954 , been partitioned into two military zones , with DRV forces in the north and French forces in the south . |
| 5 | Each covered his river valley with a new castle , wooden at first but soon replaced with a substantial stone structure . |
| 6 | Ishaq Khan maintained his claim to be following a strictly non-partisan attitude in interpreting his constitutional role ( greatly enhanced by constitutional amendments introduced by Zia in August 1988 ) , but soon disputed the Prime Minister 's right to make senior military appointments . |
| 7 | There was a scientific hiatus and it took the Butt Report and the prodding of the C-in-C to trigger off an effort in this direction , GEE was an excellent start , but soon negated by jamming . |
| 8 | Halcyon barley came in at 24% moisture initially , but soon dropped to 19% . |
| 9 | They started to work out the answers mentally , but soon resorted to calculators . |
| 10 | Susan smiled , but soon grew grave . |
| 11 | Corals offered him at 5-1 but soon had to come down to join Ladbrokes at 4-1 . |
| 12 | He was a little hesitant at first but soon had told her everything ; how he met the Bookman , his funny habits , his endless knowledge , their pranks , sitting in the sun on reclining chairs and leaping through the shelves . |
| 13 | First they discovered bird droppings in their detector and checked for other possible malfunctions , but soon ruled these out . |
| 14 | In 1804 , aged 22 , he moved to a clerical post in London but soon left it to study law in the city . |
| 15 | Swinderby was freed , but prohibited from further preaching without licence ; he returned to Leicester briefly but soon left for Coventry . |
| 16 | And the peedie fairy was just delighted to start with but soon realized that there was something kind of fishy going on and it was n't a very happy place . |
| 17 | He set up in practice in the copper-mining town of Hettstedt but soon discovered that he was out of sympathy with the barbaric medical practices of his time which often showed little compassion for , or understanding of , the patient . |
| 18 | ‘ She was tired and sleepy but soon woke up when we came to her side . |
| 19 | He was a conqueror who loved conquest but soon became bored with the spoils . |
| 20 | Malcolm stoically prevented what would have been the first Test hat-trick in England since 1960 , but soon became Waqar 's record 22nd wicket of the series , leaving Smith a gallant 84 not out in four hours of great determination , to finish on the high note upon which he started the series , since which there had been much disappointment . |
| 21 | These too started as promises to exchange paper for gold , but soon became currency , a normal medium for exchange of goods and services . |
| 22 | He was considering taking orders , but soon became dispirited by the contrast between the stuffy cant of Wigan 's vicarage and the godless poverty of his parish . |
| 23 | After school she went to do her chores , but soon fell into her customary trance of curiosity . |
| 24 | There was a struggle for conversions : one or two people professed to give their lives to Christ but soon fell away . |
| 25 | As best she might she encouraged her to speak her grief , but soon saw that her efforts , however tender , were experienced as intrusion , as invasion almost . |
| 26 | I wept at the loss to science caused by the slaughter of the mother , but soon dried my eyes as Lorraine Travis , the honorary secretary of the British Mule Society , said she thought that the foal in the photograph was a donkey and not a mule , and so did several of her knowledgeable friends . |
| 27 | Originally , Jimmy was building mainly dulcimers and acoustic guitars , but soon came to recognise the demand for quality hand-built electrics . |
| 28 | At first Diana tolerated the friendship , but soon came to envy the older woman whose company her husband so plainly enjoyed . |
| 29 | The father looked stern for a while , but soon went to him and , whispering something into his ear in gypsy , gave him a kiss . |
| 30 | Then came the city , Branson floated Virgin but soon went private again . |