Example sentences of "[vb past] but fail " in BNC.
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| 1 | That way America , and the rest of the world , stand a chance of getting the ‘ kinder , gentler ’ approach Bush promised but failed to deliver . |
| 2 | Arafat was snubbed by his host , King Husayn , while Syria tried but failed to achieve a conference resolution which omitted the PLO as a participant in a future international peace conference . |
| 3 | Gladstone tried but failed to get it through Parliament . |
| 4 | Detonator exploded but failed to set off main charge . |
| 5 | Kelly gave her horse a slap down the shoulder ; it grunted but failed to quicken . |
| 6 | Again , it highlighted something that , as a teacher , I knew but failed to utilize in other aspects of my work — that simple pictures and diagrams highlight the obvious more easily than paragraphs of words . |