Example sentences of "but [noun] [vb past] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Jan said it was better working than sitting at home watching the dust settle , even if it was working with a bunch of loonies . |
| 2 | But experts said it was not toxic . |
| 3 | I was n't too impressed with this — I 'd rather have seen a film — but Andy thought it was all right , so I did too . |
| 4 | But Richard said it was n't necessary . |
| 5 | Jim suggested that the men should perhaps wear their hats but Bruce said it was too hot . |
| 6 | Owen thought he knew what kind of assistance that was but Mahmoud said it was not like that , or not like that entirely . |
| 7 | But people decided it was only inferiors who ate alpaca meat . |
| 8 | " Wo n't you tell us , dear ? " she pleaded , but Kate said it was n't her secret to tell . |
| 9 | His wife would have liked to go to Cornwall sometimes or even to Majorca but Lewis said it was out of the question , they could n't afford it . |
| 10 | Grierson , in fact , lived a singularly carefree and untroubled existence but Talbot thought it was hardly the time to point this out to him . |