Example sentences of "but had not [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had claimed to believe in her innocence , but had not apologised for misjudging and insulting her . |
| 2 | These had been regular church-goers in the Caribbean but had not felt at home in the more restrained worship of the British churches , and some had felt cold-shouldered by the white members . |
| 3 | French-trained Lashkari , owned like Shernazar by the Aga Khan , had won the inaugural running of the Turf in 1984 but had not seemed at his best in 1985 . |
| 4 | According to Le Monde , all the candidates professed support for the regime of President Gnassinbe Eyadema , but had not had to be approved in advance by the ruling and sole legal party , the Rally of the Togolese People ( Rassemblement du Peuple Togolais — RPT ) . |
| 5 | When he was seen in the special department , after blood tests for syphilis , taken as a last resort , had turned out strongly positive , he remembered having noticed a sore on his penis some five months earlier but had not bothered with it as it was not painful and had gone away after a couple of weeks . |
| 6 | On Saturday May 18th she had gone to spend the weekend with an unnamed boy friend in Brighton , but had not returned to the clinic . |
| 7 | Kopyion had expressed a great deal of interest in these killings but had not passed on all the information available to him . |
| 8 | He made good progress until February 1992 when he was readmitted with a febrile illness and a tender mass in the right side of his neck , which was thought to be infective , but had not resolved despite treatment with flucloxacillin . |
| 9 | It occurred at a time when abolitionist leaders hoped for improved treatment of slaves in the West Indies but had not focused on emancipation as an objective and had not specifically propagandised for it . |
| 10 | I would accept that since I saw a report only the other day about such a case ( the funeral director involved had a son in my class who brought me the file ) the embalmer had used 8 oz per 80 oz of a very good fluid , but had not put in any co or pre injection fluids and did not mix any other fluids , and he put in 4 × 80 oz bottles . |
| 11 | Jim Lilico , principal environmental health officer for Darlington Council , said the authority was aware of the fly tipping on the British Rail owned land , but had not known about the dead animals . |
| 12 | In Korea Soviet forces had crossed the Siberian border but had not advanced beyond Chongjin in the extreme north-east . |
| 13 | Jeff had mentioned it to her fleetingly , but had n't gone into details . |
| 14 | I went back to the beginning and started over , but had n't come to any conclusion when I reached the sign telling me that the Florabelle served the thickest steak in five counties . |
| 15 | We work more or less in the same area but had n't talked to one another for a long time . |
| 16 | By then Tec-huc and Pulvidon and their followers had seen me , but had n't looked at all surprised . |