Example sentences of "but it [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this one is a very interesting project because it 's being done under the director of , direction of Dr. Michael Eraut in the University , but it involves not merely the University but the East Sussex County Council . |
| 2 | It was easy now to write to Vincent about his father 's visit in a flippant , amusing way , but it had n't been like that at all . |
| 3 | But it had n't sounded like the milkman somehow . |
| 4 | He had taken a bottle of cough mixture with him but it had n't helped much . |
| 5 | But it had n't been her lucky day after all . |
| 6 | But it had n't been like that . |
| 7 | I 'd seen it but it had n't sunk in . |
| 8 | Mildred held out her arm to see if it had begun to reappear but it had n't . |
| 9 | But it had n't flowered and as far as she could tell , had no intention of doing so . |
| 10 | But it had n't been a dream . |
| 11 | But it had n't been up to him . |
| 12 | She had had real coffee once or twice on the ‘ pomps ’ raids down into Mexico , but it had n't seemed special . |
| 13 | But it had n't been so very red , more a reddish brown . |
| 14 | But it had n't been strong enough to make him say : |
| 15 | But it had n't come . |
| 16 | She had also wondered if seeing the places he went might make her feel closer to him , but it had n't . |
| 17 | Perhaps , but it had n't taken her long to work out what the boy really was . |
| 18 | But it had n't . |
| 19 | But it had n't brought him any closer to her . |
| 20 | But it had n't , not completely , and now she was beginning to have the feeling that all of the best chances had been narrowly missed and the whole thing was now starting to come apart again . |
| 21 | But it had n't yet told him everything . |
| 22 | She had spent the whole day , today , hoping it might happen again , but it had n't . |
| 23 | The sea had gone out , his father shouted , but it had n't taken her with it because she had n't wanted to go . |
| 24 | Miss Malabedeely had looked embarrassed , discovered on her knees like that , but it had n't mattered because of her niceness . |
| 25 | The dark circles under his eyes suggested he might well have spent the entire night going through them on a tape recorder , but it had n't helped . |
| 26 | The truth might have stopped him despising her , but it had n't put an end to desire . |
| 27 | Well , it was n't as gruesome as it might have been had the bodies been five weeks rather than five years old , but it had n't been a pretty sight by any means . |
| 28 | I 'd tried waiting for the natural course of events to bring me the way of the creche , some errand Mrs Goreng might send me on , but it had n't worked out that way . |
| 29 | It was true she 'd avoided him , had gladly left him to Merry , but it had n't occurred to her that he might be aware of that . |
| 30 | But it had n't simply been desire , she acknowledged painfully — desire she could have handled . |