Example sentences of "[adv] but it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael sniggered behind Moran as soon as they were on the road together but it drew such a quelling look from Maggie that he went quiet . |
| 2 | It would take longer to put together but it would endure . ’ |
| 3 | John tried to hold the family together but it knocked everyone back . ’ |
| 4 | The group might knock heads together but it does n't seem designed to do the equally important job of explaining what is happening to staff and patients . |
| 5 | The glass in the photo frame still held together but it was difficult to make out the five faces beneath . |
| 6 | It took forty-seven stitches to put that whippet back together but it lived . |
| 7 | Er the market traders er are up in arms about this and I found them er in the process of trying to get a petition together but it it was n't put together right , they were just getting people to sign blank pieces of paper . |
| 8 | The City Airport is doing better but it 's still not doing that well , there is a market for an airfield that would serve executive and freight business for North London and of course Hertfordshire , that airfield is needed . |
| 9 | Better , just , you just , in sa well I do n't mean better but it just makes just the difference now so what can I say ? . |
| 10 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 11 | It was n't much but it was a living . |
| 12 | promise much but it 'll certainly stretch to one extra , anytime . |
| 13 | It 's not much but it 'll help . ’ |
| 14 | I made a lot well , three prints a year on average is n't much but it was enough to keep me economically viable . |
| 15 | It is clear then that MP goes significantly further than VP ; it may follow naturally but it does not follow ‘ logically ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't know what it 's like inside but it 's as black as the ace of spades outside . ’ |
| 17 | Well it can be inside but it 's really outside and rotted . |
| 18 | Both had gone inside but it was her husband Bailey who set the fire . |
| 19 | It would n't fool them for long but it would do for a moment . |
| 20 | It played for a little while , I did n't play it for long but it did play . |
| 21 | We would n't want to comment on the comparative merits of your Minitex and Barbara Smith 's Erka which we show below but it is interesting that the Minitex cost £42.10s.0d in 1950 and the Erka 45 guineas in 1960 . |
| 22 | ‘ He does sometimes respond personally but it depends what letters are about . |
| 23 | ‘ He does sometimes respond personally but it depends what letters are about . |
| 24 | I stress local : Verkhovensky 's group psychology is plausible enough but it does n't engage with anything wider or further that he proposes to do . |
| 25 | Mrs Balcombe said : ‘ We have been told that this is not nearly enough but it is all we have got and I think we are lucky to have it . ’ |
| 26 | I mean he liked his job in here right enough but it was more money and better conditions in the glaziers so |
| 27 | A political decision is real enough but it is designed to leave things in the end exactly as they were in the beginning . |
| 28 | Half a bottle of wine a day — it 's not enough but it 's something . |
| 29 | The American was pleasant enough but it soon emerged from the conversation that the two women had little , if anything , in common . |
| 30 | that 's right , and he gets some unemployment money and I take ten pounds a week off him , for his food , I mean , it 's not enough but it 'll do , you know and then in dribs and drabs begrudgingly from that forty over the week once he starts to run out of money cos he 's paid once a fortnight I begin to give him his karate money and here 's two pounds fifty to go to the pub with Neil , you know , little bits |