Example sentences of "[verb] it but [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did sting me a bit the first time I used it but has n't since . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But equally there is the option of differentiation , which is about setting oneself apart from the norm , not simply to criticize and condemn it but to set up an alternative and different model . |
| 5 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |
| 6 | ‘ Five of the grandchildren went to Euro Disney on a school trip and loved it but did n't have time to really do it justice . |
| 7 | ‘ It is now well-established that any application of the best evidence rule is confined to cases in which it can be shown that the party has the original and could produce it but does not . ’ |
| 8 | On 19 May a copy of AFHQ 's " Distone Order " of 17 May that all " dissident Yugoslavs " should be evacuated to Italy was submitted to Gen McCreery who saw it but did not date his initials or order any action . |
| 9 | Yes if you 've got time do it but do n't , with all of , it do n't feel you 've got to do it , that it 's homework and I 'm going to get annoyed if you do n't do it . |
| 10 | She denied it but did not tell him she had seen him fighting with the pedlar or that the man had chased her and Oliver in Nice . |
| 11 | He tried to stop it but succeeded only in propelling it across the line . |
| 12 | I wonder how many others would have liked to sign it but did not feel that they should . |