Example sentences of "[vb past] but [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean like with Kevin and Bill , we negotiated but even that we would n't talk about their professional work as a careers officer |
| 2 | Boy did not throw these letters away ; he kept them all , and indeed read them not only on the day that they arrived but again and again during the week before the arrival of the next one , but he did not keep these letters in his box , and he did not reply to them either . |
| 3 | There were , of course , many participants in this discussion , but Bukharin and Preobrazhensky stand out not only for the number of contributions they made but also because of the quality of these interventions . |
| 4 | This was a road Henley avoided but only because its founding capital was provided by bondholders rather than shareholders . |
| 5 | The by-laws were lawful not because of what they said but rather because of what they would have said if they had been drafted lawfully . |
| 6 | He said but unfortunately because he 's boisterous , which he is and because it 's easier for them with their numbers to let him just get away with it or say oh Martin go outside we ca n't , you know , then then he was n't learning |