Example sentences of "[to-vb] it but [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When John Bull , the great musician , asked for the reversion to the lease of Radnor Forest , the officer in attendance noted that the Queen was disposed to grant it but wanted more information first . |
| 2 | Santerre hastened to open it but told us not to bring any torches in . |
| 3 | The Men were outside his cage trying to open it but failing because the branch had buckled it . |
| 4 | In Pearson v. Rose and Young ( 1950 C.A. ) the owner left his car with a dealer with instructions for the latter not to sell it but to see what offers could be obtained for it . |
| 5 | If the Legal Aid Board , as the only party adversely affected by the proposed order , has the opportunity to challenge it but decides not to do so , one may ask rhetorically what possible objection of substance there can be to the existing practice . |
| 6 | Men who had been asleep and were woken up by the noise did not appear to resent it but sat up on one elbow and stared . |
| 7 | You said you had to model it but make it , squeeze it in the middle so it 's fatter at the ends that 's it , so it looks like a canoe |
| 8 | Something to thicken it but think of stickiness . |
| 9 | Now that 's different you 'll not get em to cancel it but to get them to spin it out over a longer period is a possibility and that 's what we 're gon na be working towards . |
| 10 | Eddie wanted Angy to end it but said that she was too soft-hearted . ’ |
| 11 | He tried to tug it but had no leverage . |
| 12 | There is , for most of the century , no simple suggestion of a dominant class resisting a popular culture and attempting to supplant it with a preferred alternative , but rather a willingness not only to tolerate it but to accept a functional involvement . |
| 13 | She flung the inside door to one side , was about to slam it but changed her mind and closed it behind her in a quiet and controlled manner . |
| 14 | As the days went by and the busy little transport box seemed to be making only slow way into the huge heap of lime , he no longer eased it out on the blade of the shovel for the wind to take it but scattered it anywhere out of sight , anywhere to be rid of it . |
| 15 | He tried to stop it but succeeded only in propelling it across the line . |
| 16 | I wonder how many others would have liked to sign it but did not feel that they should . |