Example sentences of "[prep] it [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly any or all of these are possible but erm er naturally you would understand that if you had them daily by film you would be having you know ninety pieces of paper er and clearly that may not be appropriate at times well times , you know hundreds by the looks of it now but usually times ten at least . |
| 2 | I think he is off of it now but I think he must be quite a leading light |
| 3 | I think he is off of it now but I think he must be quite a leading light |
| 4 | ‘ I wo n't promise anything , ’ she said following him , ‘ I 've never tackled a job like it before but I might just be able to make a built-up boot for you . ’ |
| 5 | But of course we were very strongly against it really but er , because th you know we 'd been inundated with all these marvellous ideas of this progress and it 's all for the best and everything , but it does n't seemed to have work does it really ? |
| 6 | and er , and , and , he feels look , well I 'm caring with it now but some time |
| 7 | And you do something pretty clever with it usually but if they 're just added , one bit at a time . |
| 8 | This is a deep but much discussed subject and I shall not go into it here but simply assume it . |
| 9 | , probably gone into it now but |
| 10 | for the admiralty the fans in it yet but they 're |
| 11 | Ah just a couple of people that 's all two people and er they 'll just have to get round it somehow but we do n't yeah well you speak to him right yeah well they can have they can have what they want but I mean it might be just a short term thing . |
| 12 | ‘ Council 's turned a blind eye to it previously but I 'm in charge now and I 'm booking you under the Fireworks and Public Entertainments byelaw . ’ |
| 13 | The initial verb + noun phrase combination shows in essence a property word extended by an entity word , and it therefore remains a ( complex ) property ; the adjective then further extends this property ; but because it is an adjective rather than an adverb , its own property is understood as applicable to the entity identified by the noun phrase , with the important reservation , demanded by the intensional structure , that it will not be applied to it unconditionally but only insofar as that entity stands in relation to the verb which accompanies it . |
| 14 | Been to it before but not for a long time . |
| 15 | there does n't seem to be any sense to it really but you can try and make a bit of sense out of some of it not all of it but some of it you can make a bit of sense out of it yes . |
| 16 | You wo n't get anything on it here but if you have n't been told . |
| 17 | I have people working on it already but it 's a world-wide organization and the structure is complex . |
| 18 | ‘ Of course you have to walk on it sometimes but not too often . |
| 19 | There 's a , one of them little it 's probably meant to be that colour , one of them little clay coloured things has got a black end on it there but er |
| 20 | I just fell off it once but that was outside |
| 21 | So that 's the charter mark , we 're going for it again but I do n't think the impact will be , you know the main impact was , was last time . |
| 22 | If you 're really in favour of something , you vote for it twice but if you 're just a bit in favour of it you vote once . |
| 23 | I looked for it everywhere but I could not find it . |
| 24 | There 's nothing for it now but to get back as fast as we can the way we 've come . ’ |
| 25 | There was nothing for it now but to try the undertakers themselves . |
| 26 | There was nothing for it now but to go on . |
| 27 | Er they grumble about it today but when you think there there there was very little dole in those days , very little dole . |
| 28 | One reacted in this way not because one had thought about it much but because some instinct demanded it . |
| 29 | And I do n't know how , what 's happened about it now but at the time he was still having to pay for it |
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