Example sentences of "but had [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unemployment in the UK peaked at 17 per cent in 1932 but had fallen back to its 1920s level of 8 per cent by 1937 . |
| 2 | The house wore a permanently uncompleted air as if , sixty years before , the builder had intended it to be part of a pair of semi-detached houses but had run out of money or enthusiasm before he started on the second one . |
| 3 | I had made a flask of tea and some sandwiches but had run out of milk at home , so I brought a stoppered bottle along planning to buy some milk in Keld . |
| 4 | He had been apprehensive but had gone along with her idea all the same and now the small room was a regular haunt of the local foremen and managers , as well as a meeting-place for the trade union officials who held impromptu meetings over mugs of steaming hot tea and bacon sandwiches . |
| 5 | Jilly Jonathan was pale but had calmed down after the bout of hysterical weeping that had overcome her once they had got her to the hotel . |
| 6 | Clearly the pilot had not wasted time calculating an entry angle , but had bored down through the upper atmosphere as directly as he was able . |
| 7 | She had thought it a foolproof notion , but had slipped up on detail , like so many . |
| 8 | He had driven to Roker in Sunderland and had walked for a long time on the beach , contemplating suicide , but had driven back to his son 's home . |
| 9 | He had proposed the visit to Burford on 17 May 1968 but had dropped out of the ill-fated return journey . |
| 10 | If he did n't answer the leg , he got a quick reminder from the schooling whip — something I should have done but had chickened out of because Skipper 's reaction to a schooling whip had been to throw some rather impressive bucks . |
| 11 | Innes McInnes was obviously a soup-meat-cheese man from way back , but had come up in the world . |