Example sentences of "[vb pp] 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 | ‘ We believe two Somalis were wounded but they fled and two US Army Rangers were slightly wounded , ’ Major David Stockwell said . |
| 4 | He had hoped Sir John 's appetite had been curbed but he seemed both insatiable and unable to learn from previous experience . |
| 5 | Dr Steel said it was difficult to estimate when the gene would be located but he thought it would be months rather than years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ The Hennessy was no fluke and he has obviously been under-rated but he does need soft ground , ’ said Murphy . |
| 8 | It does take time , about two hours for each member of staff when preparation and writing is included but it has been an investment that has repaid the school with great dividends . |
| 9 | No um Michael Fraser Associates have now started a lobbying operation which is run for them by the former Chief Executive of the Tory Party in Scotland whose name I 've forgotten but he lives down at Tiningham in East Lothian ah , now if I could get him in if Fred does n't object and again if Fred did n't object and the other guy did n't object it might be worth getting a member of Parliament in |
| 10 | A row of epic proportions had ensued , which he and Angela had evidently enjoyed but which had left Sarah and Jennifer sick with distress . |
| 11 | Thousands of young hopefuls were interviewed but none possessed the elusive qualities Selznick sought . |
| 12 | His fist was bruised but he punched the wall again . |
| 13 | Barney was n't often stumped but she knew less than nothing about the sport . |
| 14 | In the great storm of October 1987 , many of the original trees in that avenue were uprooted but they have been replaced with young lime trees . |
| 15 | So we 've tried to set the duty at a level which makes it clear to those who seek to commit financial crime that they 're more likely to be caught but which does not impose additional reporting burdens or costs on those who conduct their business honestly and that is a most important balance to strike . |
| 16 | Mr Wolski did not want the eagle caught but he knew its chances of escape were very low . |
| 17 | This is something I was trying to get clarified but I do n't care really as long as somebody gets it . |
| 18 | Her performance was about what he 'd expected but they brushed through without anything too awful happening . |
| 19 | I 've I 've looked but he has n't come in . |
| 20 | Joey does n't compete in the short circuit section of the championship in which King has excelled but he has generally been in command between the hedges and today it looked like the same old story when he took the lead after the first lap . |
| 21 | The kids were mortified but I thought it was a real hoot . ’ |
| 22 | We 've slightly digressed but I take your , I take your point . |
| 23 | It has impressed but it has to have the right tools if it is going to provide the safety that councillor referred to and the saving of life which was referred to by councillor . |
| 24 | Country vets are n't easily sickened but I felt my stomach turning . |
| 25 | During the ten or so years leading up to the inauguration of Channel Four in 1982 many proposals were considered but there seemed to be a degree of agreement amongst those favouring a novel form of organization that allocating the ‘ fourth channel ’ to the commercial sector would only |
| 26 | The heiress travels to Florida for some yachting but her sloop is run down and sunk by one of her own commercial schooners ; she is saved but she has lost her memory ; she ends up working on the cutting-tables in her own factory and falls in love with a manager whose previous requests for better conditions she had been happy to ignore . |
| 27 | ‘ We are competitively priced but we market the service on quality . ’ |
| 28 | Looking back on it I could not figure out what went wrong as I had done exactly as instructed but nobody had ever really said much about fallen trees or currents and especially not in such a small part of the river . |
| 29 | The third : the targets are met or exceeded but one does not see the results in the shops . |
| 30 | The two separate Minutes may not necessarily be related but it does suggest there may be more in the Cup 's name that has hitherto been appreciated . |