Example sentences of "but it had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it had just happened . |
| 2 | It was diagnosed eventually as congenital heart failure , though at first doctors thought it was liver failure , but it had also affected the lungs . |
| 3 | But it had also become a flourishing offshore finance centre with 347 banks before the investigation . |
| 4 | Not only had the farm to generate a living wage but it had also to provide the necessary capital for reinvestment in the business . |
| 5 | This had given a couple of extra feet of clearance , but it had also left the steel ends of the support joists exposed . |
| 6 | The car might belong to the estate or be bringing timber-buyers or tree-fellers to the woods , but it had nearly knocked her down , and she was determined to get its number . |
| 7 | We do not know precisely on what grounds , but it had already broken down by August 1093 , the date which had been fixed for the final settlement of differences between the kings of England and Scotland . |
| 8 | But it had already made a difference in the balance of class origins of future generations . |
| 9 | Like the ACAS report , the Scarman report sank without a trace but it had already fulfilled its function that of sapping the strength and momentum of the struggle . |
| 10 | Apparently my mother had worked at a big house somewhere and fallen in love , but it had all gone wrong . |
| 11 | But it had all soured later . |
| 12 | A few weeks ago she would have been looking forward to the show , but it had all fallen flat and she had to scold herself severely before she could whip up any enthusiasm at all . |
| 13 | She heard Ana scream her name but it had all happened so fast that she was stunned . |
| 14 | But it had all happened so quickly — and I knew so little about you — except that I 'd fallen in love with you . ’ |
| 15 | It was only a theory but it had always amazed him , and the other field operatives , how Philpott could come up with solid cover stories at such short notice . |
| 16 | But it had always used its copious data for control rather than for information . |
| 17 | Er it was known by archaeologists and the Royal Commission of Ancient and Historical Monuments had done a survey , but it had only done a very brief survey , and they said this is part of something left of a medieval building here . |
| 18 | He had tried to give her an injection but it had only made her more hysterical . |
| 19 | The previous instrument , a small electric organ presented in 1937 , was no longer adequate , but it had certainly proved its worth , when in 1946 W.L. Wyatt , then head boy , in passing the examination for the Diploma for the Royal College of Organists , had achieved a Distinction , probably without precedent for a boy still at school . |
| 20 | It was probably only a rabbit , but it had still unnerved her slightly , and she pulled off the drive and parked on the grass . |
| 21 | Teeth marks showed clearly where the dog had bitten , but it had hardly broken the skin . |
| 22 | But it had never struck me that it was something he would notice . |
| 23 | United Motors had already built a component plant in Dublin a few years before , at the specific request of the Chairman , but it had never operated profitably . |
| 24 | She had clung to the hope even for that length of time , but it had never happened . |
| 25 | Actually , I had fun inventing my own diet because I had gone on diets before , I 'd gone to fat farms , too , but it had never lasted . |
| 26 | I looked around at the place ; I had been here before but it had never looked so huge . |
| 27 | Tina might have told her mother this , during one of their evenings of confidences , but it had never occurred to her , she being neither proud nor ashamed of it , nor even thinking it very out of the ordinary . |
| 28 | Syl was more of my mother 's generation than my own but it had never occurred to me before that he and she and Lili must all have been young at the same time . |
| 29 | She had even vaguely registered that it sold flowers , but it had never occurred to her to regard it as a serious rival . |
| 30 | But it had better work . ’ |