Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't ask me how — but I knew it without a shadow of a doubt . |
| 2 | But I , I mean I use it as a , that may be the psychology behind it , but I use it as a bad example of , for obvious reasons , and there 's a real bad example , and there may be some politics behind it , there 's What I think is a good example : ‘ Southeast Arts ’ sorry , ‘ Southeast Tourist Board , South of England Board . ’ |
| 3 | The Jolly Farmers has been demolished , but I remember it as a brick and pantile structure at the top end of the town . |
| 4 | It could be just down to good digestion and calm dreams , of course ; but I take it as a sign of happiness . |
| 5 | " I could n't possibly afford the flat if I were renting it now , but I got it on a long lease just after the war , when rents were much less than they are today , " she said . |
| 6 | look I said I do n't mind vinyl , I do n't mind good vinyl the only good , the only one that , it was good for the toilet , but I got it in a pack cos we 've got such a small single toilet |
| 7 | ‘ But I regard it as a penance . |
| 8 | " I know you come over a little shy when I talk about you this way , Chuck , but I do it for a good reason , " continued the senator , lighting a Havana cigar with elaborate care . |
| 9 | But I did it with a heavy heart , I can tell you . |
| 10 | I know I should n't have gone near the sea , but I did it as a protest . |
| 11 | Er but I did it at a scale like erm one centimetre for o for every hour it 's blowing in that direction . |
| 12 | ‘ It would have taken forty-five minutes by bus , but I did it in a quarter of an hour by bike , ’ he said . |
| 13 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 14 | Everyone else seemed to be roused by the War , but she saw it as a giant emotional hoax . |
| 15 | She had known this all along , but she knew it with a different knowledge now . |
| 16 | But we change it at a company level . |
| 17 | Of course the Scandinavians have been skiing for about 4,500 years , but they used it as a means of travelling across country , not as an activity in itself , that has only happened in the last hundred years . |
| 18 | Both leaders admitted that several issues remained unresolved by the treaty , but they described it as a good basis for the development of future bilateral relations . |
| 19 | Adorno , we have seen , acknowledges this specificity — indeed , for him it explains the ( unfulfilled ) potential of jazz and the hangovers of ‘ real ’ creativity in some Tin Pan Alley songs ; but he subsumes it into a theory of ‘ false individualization ’ , designed , in his view , to disguise mass cultural production as ‘ art ’ . |
| 20 | No I thought , cos I , I remember reading erm I think it 's her father who owns one of the bookshops in Woodbridge and he had this book on display , you know he sort of erm advertised it if you like and it 's , it 's properly published and everything but he had it as a a book available in his store and there was an advert in the Anglian about it , and I remember reading that she said er that he said er cos it was his daughter who had the child , that it totally knocked them for six . |
| 21 | The backbone of his work is the new recitative but he uses it with a power quite beyond Peri 's so that it is not merely ‘ expressive ’ but when necessary , as in Orfeo 's lament in Act II , heart-breaking . |
| 22 | It was smooth and round but he carried it like a sack . |
| 23 | I had built him up to play it right to the heart of the green but he played it like a nervous three handicapper . |
| 24 | But he did it with a warming smile and a ready assumption of her allegiance and willingness , more as if he had asked a small current courtesy of his wife than given an order to a servant . |
| 25 | But he did it in a way which seemed to belittle others . |
| 26 | He played a diabolical second shot and he must have finished all of 20 yards from the hole , but he sank it for a 3 . |
| 27 | Barth was deeply impressed by Anselm 's so-called ‘ Ontological Argument ’ for the existence of God — this argument will be looked at in more detail later — but he interpreted it in a particular way . |
| 28 | Stephen has gone through confession , and is , he declares , ‘ Ready to forge that language ’ , but he declares it in a language that will not yet take Joyce out of desperation . |