Example sentences of "[prep] it but [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You wo n't be able to catch all of it but get as much down as you can . |
| 2 | I was making heavy weather of it but dared not rest for the cold . |
| 3 | He liked the effects of it but did n't like having to smoke it . |
| 4 | So it is important not to drift into caring or be hustled into it but to think through personal motives tor taking it on . |
| 5 | I left them to it but did n't have to wait long . |
| 6 | He does not refer to the factory or the tannery beside it but points cruelly instead towards some squalid huts behind a tin wall . |
| 7 | If , however , you find yourself carrying three or four such problems it seems clear that there is nothing for it but to go back and attack the first difficulties again . |
| 8 | Nothing for it but to go back the way you came , to Neu St Johann , thence down the Toggenburg valley through the resorts of Nesslau and Ebnat-Kappel to Wattwil . |
| 9 | Because that misidentification insisted on making trade unions the vehicle for it but insisted also on the continuance of their traditional role , the outcome was bound to be primarily about an extension of their power in the performance of that role , the role that implicates trade unionism as the reciprocal to the ownership of the means of production and provision within the total system , Capitalism , as it evolved in Victorian Britain . |
| 10 | The , councillor I am not passionate about getting rid of union representation , what I am passionate about is union members paying for their own representation , not me , not the people out there , if they want a full time union official let them pay for it but do n't expect other people to pick up the bill , it 's ludicrous er to er put that sort of money in our budget . |
| 11 | As he said no more there was nothing for it but to walk on . |
| 12 | There was nothing for it but to try again . |
| 13 | The circulation of air round a depression usually has ‘ fronts ’ or areas of rain associated with it , and when birds , which navigate by being able to see the night sky , meet with a barrier of rain and bad visibility then there is nothing for it but to drop down to the nearest land and wait until conditions improve . |
| 14 | They had nothing for it but to crawl back to Mr Scully and to pay Mike Channon 's cancellation fee ( £353 ) out of their own pockets . |
| 15 | And then the drawbridge was falling , with a clanking and a whirring of machinery and the light was pouring into the courtyard and the Gnomes were cheering and the giants were nodding to one another , and there was nothing for it but to ride away with Snodgrass , with Balor loping along at their side , with Fenella behind in the hands of the Gruagach . |
| 16 | Most of them did nothing about it but hurried on , some scowling , one , a child , making a face at the camera , holding up his hands as if they were big ears and waggling his fingers . |
| 17 | Think about it but do n't guess . |
| 18 | But sometimes I felt she took over and I got annoyed about it but did n't like to say . |
| 19 | However what appeared to be a Bofors gun mounted on the fort on the breakwater , manned by three men , observed the aircraft and fired at it but did not obtain sufficient depression . |