Example sentences of "but [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sicily for Pound never but once had any existence that was n't either verbal ( as in the wordplay on ‘ Trinacria ’ or the Eleanors ) , or else notional , ideological ( as providing a sort of slender mnemonic crutch for a tendentious reading of history ) . |
| 2 | On 21 April I sent to you a letter and a copy of a proposal for the above tape , to your address ( as I have written it above ) , but yesterday received this package back marked as not known at this address . |
| 3 | They had spent so much time together , but hardly knew each other . |
| 4 | Shortly afterwards he was diagnosed as having Parkinson 's disease , but still became part-time coach with Sunderland before he was forced to quit the game as his condition deteriorated . |
| 5 | Parliamentarians scattered OECD statistics around like confetti , but carefully ducked any attempt at serious discussion of what the statistics really mean . |
| 6 | A second test reservoir needed less pressure but also retrieved less heat . |
| 7 | Durán , 70 , a former mayor of the capital , Quito , and an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency on two previous occasions , received most votes in the central highlands but also drew significant support in the western coastal regions . |
| 8 | By the end of the boom the machines confronting the average worker not only were more numerous than before but also bore little resemblance to those in use two decades previously . |
| 9 | Sukarno made a radio broadcast of sublime meaninglessness : Such rhetoric had gone down well in the past , but now made little impact . |
| 10 | Each had had a different school experience : one in a G.P.D. S.T. school right through from its junior department , another going from a local primary school to the secondary school for year , then to a formerly all-boys but now mixed public school up to the V form , and then back to the VI form College in her home area . |
| 11 | The messages were often banal , but sometimes gave surprising information about a participant which the medium would not have been expected to know . |
| 12 | Donald retired first at the age of 56 , after attaining the maximum pensionable service with an insurance company , but then took another job , with less responsibility , as book-keeper for a local garage . |
| 13 | ‘ Because , although you 'd said you understood , I decided I 'd better explain , but then had great difficulty in assembling anything which sounded … feasible . |
| 14 | All of the capacities could have evolved independently , but then obtained further impetus for change from the gradual emergence of language . |
| 15 | Initially , the group toyed with the idea of developing a new unconstrained , non-compatible architecture but then abandoned that notion claiming the trade-off suffered was relatively minor . |
| 16 | He was some three shots clear of the field standing on the 14th tee , but then lost this advantage after he recorded a double-bogey and two bogeys in the last six holes . |
| 17 | The 10 patients who were lost to follow-up were younger than the rest of the cohort ( mean age : 48 yr vs 60 yr , p=0.05 ) , but otherwise had similar baseline characteristics . |
| 18 | They found none but instead discovered medicinal water , unique for its richness in salts of iodine and bromine . |
| 19 | Arkells told us it sympathised with the Gammages but never had any intention of employing them . |
| 20 | They tried having two machines but never had enough laundry to justify running them both . |
| 21 | He took his seat in the House of Lords on 4th July , 1859 , ‘ but never took much part in the debates ’ . |