Example sentences of "[adj] but it [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thought was distasteful but it continued to play on her mind as she got dressed in a pair of jeans and a flowered silk shirt . |
| 2 | The revolution at Northampton may have been different but it did have uncanny echoes of what had gone on at Neath . |
| 3 | It was not perhaps natural but it had served him well , Nicholas knew , from the beginning . |
| 4 | The sum of 10s 0d per week for the new pension was , he admitted , inadequate but it had to correspond with the level of the non-contributory pension ; and such an amount would encourage individuals to take out private pensions . |
| 5 | As their only match preparation for the Test , it was patently inadequate but it did alert them to the vast difference between the cricketing conditions and environment in the Caribbean and those in Australia and New Zealand where they had performed so impressively in gaining the semi-finals of the World Cup . |
| 6 | We fixed it up as well as we could — which was n't well but it did give us both somewhere to live away from our parents , a first real taste of independence . |
| 7 | Cumulative selection is the key but it had to get started , and we can not escape the need to postulate a single-step chance event in the origin of cumulative selection itself . |
| 8 | Complex but it seemed to work . |
| 9 | Hot water was available but it meant vying for position in the kitchen with those cooking breakfast and making tea . |
| 10 | It was an attempt at prohibition that was never wholly successful but it did set an example . |
| 11 | I can not truthfully say that my work experience directly influenced my ambitions career wise but it did show me that the music business is not about ‘ Top of the Pops ’ but about a day 's work to be proud of . |