Example sentences of "but [vb past] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maximus tried to reconquer Rome but failed and had to call in the help of his British brothers-in-law . |
| 2 | She seemed flabbergasted , but rallied and asked me if I would look in at the Gray Mare in Kilburn and say ‘ hello ’ to her son Joe Kelly who worked there . |
| 3 | The FT-SE 100 index of leading shares dropped 42 points to 2,270 on the announcement of the base rate increase to 15 per cent , but rallied and closed on Thursday only 30.5 points off at 2,281.6 . |
| 4 | He was but stopped and stared at me , then turned and ran in the opposite direction . |
| 5 | At first the gunmen fled in their getaway van towards the village but stopped and did a U-turn , before driving back again and past the spot of the killings . |
| 6 | She did not answer at first but moved or turned . |
| 7 | It took much will-power for the man to drag himself away , presently , on one of Dunbar 's best horses , but consoled and heartened by receiving the best kiss , on parting , that had yet come from Mariot Randolph . |
| 8 | We lost , but appealed and came to the Court of Appeal in March 1990 . |
| 9 | This is a day to remember down the ages : when God dealt death to the firstborn of Egypt , but spared and freed his own people . |
| 10 | Here , for instance , there is no doubt that Niki was of substantial help in closing the deal which brought McLaren the hugely successful TAG/Porsche engine , developed by Porsche but financed and sponsored by Mansour Ojjeh , the son of the head of Techniques d'Avant Garde , a French high-tech company with a substantial role in the development of weaponry . |
| 11 | She said nothing , but turned and led the way into the living room , where it was almost dark and the coals glowed bright red between the bars of the stove . |
| 12 | The Turk did n't reply , but turned and disappeared . |
| 13 | He did not immediately get out of the car but turned and looked at Sara . |
| 14 | The merchant never looked up but nodded and muttered something to himself . |
| 15 | He did not move when he saw Alexei , but nodded and smiled . |
| 16 | At that point he was attacked by twelve Bf109s , but evaded and got in a good burst at one that overshot him . |
| 17 | Dalgliesh 's private verdict was that it was technically brilliant , but overwrought and painted , he felt , in hatred . |
| 18 | In fact it makes its point more powerfully if it is seen as prose but heard or read as poetry since the meditation then enacts for the reader that speech-become-song meditation-become-poem that Rolle talks of in The Fire of Love . |
| 19 | He knew he had no choice in the matter but cursed and muttered as he fixed his saddle bags , harnessed Philomel and joined Cranston who sat slouched on his horse on the track outside the church . |
| 20 | Julia would not shut the window but sweated and shivered by turns . |
| 21 | Les , 59 , had gone to a Manchester BUPA hospital for a check-up but collapsed and died shortly after arriving . |
| 22 | I once attempted to read his first book , Alex Through The Looking Glass , but stumbled and fell at page 10 where the Hurricane made this observation on the subject of literature : ‘ My favourite read is Robert Ludlum . |
| 23 | Safely over the down line , she started to cross the up line , but stumbled and fell . |
| 24 | Like Dexter , she had had enough of grappling with the bundles of facts she had accumulated , facts that did not slot together to form a coherent pattern ; but dissolved and reformed into new patterns every time she touched them . |
| 25 | Duncan Shearer scored the first and Town were two up , but went and threw things away . |
| 26 | Emma tried to run from the falling post , which weighed 120lb , but tripped and fell . |
| 27 | Zorro leaped through an enormous fountain , but tripped and fell face first into the water . |
| 28 | But this low-born de Burgh , this double man despite himself , even while he leaned back greedily , hankering after lands with the ambition of the landless , even while he envied the de Blundevilles and the Marshalls and composed about himself a synthetic replica of their hereditary splendour , yet saw England by glimpses as Isambard saw it , an empire not decomposing and falling to insecure tatters like the Emperor 's sprawling hold , but compact as a clenched fist , solvent as a Jew 's treasury and self-sufficient as a well-run manor , a power not hemmed in but completed and transmitted by the sea . |
| 29 | A lost golf ball may be owned by the golfer but possessed or controlled by the landowner . |
| 30 | To study whether demographic , social , drug related , or immunological factors influenced the development of bacterial pneumonia among drug users , the characteristics of drug users who seroconverted but did or did not develop bacterial pneumonia were compared . |