Example sentences of "but [pron] [noun] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guidebooks liken it to the Austrian Alps , but my wife reckons it 's more like the Norwegian fiords . |
| 2 | Copper still would n't move but my vet said it was important to get him to his box away from the flies . |
| 3 | Well I ca n't remember but my parents got it but when it first came in I ca n't remember the year but |
| 4 | ‘ But my uncle says it is structurally unsound , with a danger of falling masonry , so no one is allowed near it . ’ |
| 5 | On the seventh spawning they knocked the glass down again , while I was at school , but my Dad put it up again before all the eggs were eaten . |
| 6 | But my boyfriend says it is normal . |
| 7 | I have seen some very attractively variegated mint which I would like to grow in the flower border , but my mother says it will take over the whole garden . |
| 8 | to keep to keep the the members of Council from their collective tea at this time of the evening , but my group feels it is necessary to put forward the people of the acute financial situation of this Council , a situation which is deteriorating rapidly , and began to deteriorate in May last year , May 1990 . |
| 9 | The whole world applauded but my father ignored it . ’ |
| 10 | But my father kept it . |
| 11 | Coventry Cathedral Priory declared possessions worth £500 , but its debts left it £52 in the red ; similarly its net income was less than a quarter of the gross . |
| 12 | The SVi has the basic 2-litre engine — catalytically converted like the other petrol models — but its interior brings it into the luxury class . |
| 13 | These above-average profits depended to some extent on the Company 's political influence in England ; in India it was not powerful enough to control the market , but its charter gave it a monopoly in England which let it push prices up further than would have been practicable if non-members of the Company ( denounced as ‘ interlopers ’ ) had been able to import cotton goods into England freely . |
| 14 | We rarely saw its summit , lost as it would be in thick mist , but its mystery made it all the more attractive and seductive . |
| 15 | The spiny anteater , too , has a long pointed snout , but its spines give it a superficial resemblance to a hedgehog rather than to another typical anteater . |
| 16 | But so long as Mary of Guise 's position was upheld by her daughter , no amount of rhetoric could conceal the fact that in attacking the regent they were attacking the queen , and religious sincerity did not get them off the hook of treason ; thus , for example , when they seized the coining-irons of the mint in Edinburgh in July , it was an intelligent enough political and military act , but their efforts to justify it on the grounds that they were serving their country by stopping the regent 's debasement of the coinage rang all too hollow . |
| 17 | It must be stressed at the outset , lest the importance of this form of liability be exaggerated , that the plaintiffs lost their case because the predominant purpose of the embargo was to promote the interests of the union members rather than to injure the plaintiffs , but their Lordships made it clear that if the predominant purpose of a combination is to injure another in his trade or business or in his other legitimate interests then , if damage results , the tort of conspiracy exists . |
| 18 | Jane found it cold , but her visitors found it freezing , so she turned up the thermostat to seventy . |
| 19 | He had a lot he wanted to say , but her face forbade it . |
| 20 | Juliet was too excited to speak , but her eyes told it all . |
| 21 | But none present heard it . |
| 22 | But whose interests does it really serve ? |
| 23 | But he Val said it was that flipping rough |
| 24 | Although it had been conceived originally as a means of reducing illegal practices during the process of distillation , the ‘ Coffey still ’ had obvious commercial advantages , but his efforts to introduce it in Ireland met with little success , and it was in Scotland that it first became popular in the 1840s . |
| 25 | He pointed out that he had originally wanted Robert Bolt , but his secretary said it was not the sort of thing he would do . |
| 26 | Well I 'd already spoken to the man who was running the course , the lecturer and he told me I could go on it , but his secretary said it was booked . |
| 27 | But his lawyer says it was the wrong verdict and the wrong charge . |
| 28 | Peter himself achieved a balanced budget , but his successors found it necessary to supplement their income by resorting to ever larger foreign loans . |
| 29 | But what difference did it make . |
| 30 | As the boats have got shorter the directional instability increased but our ability to correct it with tilt decreased . |