Example sentences of "[verb] but [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had insisted on making these calls and she had won but there had been no satisfaction in that . |
| 2 | At that stage it would have been easy to have got carried away and think that the Cup was won but I made a point of saying that " A wise man does n't count his chickens " and we did n't do that . |
| 3 | Swallows fly but they do n't swim ; and whales swim but they do n't fly . |
| 4 | As he drew near they heard the sickening crack of the rod striking flesh ; once , twice they heard it fall but it brought no anguished shout of pain in response . |
| 5 | ‘ We believe two Somalis were wounded but they fled and two US Army Rangers were slightly wounded , ’ Major David Stockwell said . |
| 6 | He sat there and burst out laughing but he said yeah you 're right , there is n't ! |
| 7 | Tremayne 's eyebrows rose but he made no objection . |
| 8 | It begins to get very cold and hats and pogies appear but we press on and soon after midnight portage Marlow ; a hundred yards downstream we find the campsite and land . |
| 9 | He had hoped Sir John 's appetite had been curbed but he seemed both insatiable and unable to learn from previous experience . |
| 10 | She helped but she did n't tell me what to do all the time . |
| 11 | Dr Steel said it was difficult to estimate when the gene would be located but he thought it would be months rather than years . |
| 12 | He was sure that her withdrawal meant nothing except that she was happy and occupied but he felt oddly lonely , as if she had deliberately left him by himself in an empty room . |
| 13 | ‘ The Hennessy was no fluke and he has obviously been under-rated but he does need soft ground , ’ said Murphy . |
| 14 | Not only do we reveal a different interpretation of what is happening but we propose a very different psychological basis for this activity . |
| 15 | This was already happening but he felt neighbourhood help scheme could build on this current goodwill . |
| 16 | I try to pretend it is not happening but I know it is . ’ |
| 17 | Belinda grumbled but she followed Rachel and they joined the others . |
| 18 | Because we 've got sixties all over the place so maybe it was n't a brilliant one to try but it gives us some indication of what 's going on . |
| 19 | They 're worth £20 each and not only will they keep you warm but they look great too ! |
| 20 | We do n't know but somebody had a look at it , Shirley , the teacher . |
| 21 | Probably were n't I do n't know but they seemed to us I may be looking at it from a child 's eyes but er that 's how they seemed to be to me . |
| 22 | wh I remember that when I was at home it was a mixed sort of meeting in which some of the people from the village were coming who you did n't really know but they had to be asked |
| 23 | Then of course , then when they the kids went up , did n't know where they were going , and the parents did n't know but they found new found freedom because all the bloody kids had gone to the countryside |
| 24 | He veered higher over another kind of wood whose trees he did not know but which had lighter bark and were higher . |
| 25 | Right so maybe this is an intermediate stage , we do n't know but we know carbon dioxide comes out of it . |
| 26 | By whom I do not know but I intend to find out . |
| 27 | How the poor fellow finally got his report together I do not know but I doubt that even he did n't realise that he was dealing with a supernatural force that did what it liked when it liked . |
| 28 | He said well I do n't really know but I know he lives local somewhere . |
| 29 | And I said I do n't know but I said I should n't think it would be too late . |
| 30 | Oh I do n't know but I mean I would n't have thought so . |