Example sentences of "but it [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one really knows how it began , but it nearly died in the 1940's . |
| 2 | Here and there a regular path of some animal helped them but it rarely ran in one direction for long and they were unwilling to lose contact with the water which they would eventually have to cross . |
| 3 | In the beginning , okay believed in and or whatever you wan na call it , but it also believed in other gods as well , except he was the chief god , he was number one god as it were and he 's the one you got to follow . |
| 4 | We had chosen our visit to coincide with the full moon , but it also coincided with a period of maximum solar flare activity , and on every clear night the Lights treated us to a spectacular show in green and red . |
| 5 | But it also led to her first public performance . |
| 6 | This helped to prevent a price slump but it also led to ‘ butter mountains ’ and ‘ wine lakes ’ which were expensive to store . |
| 7 | The project of integration with which Brooke-Rose began provided sufficient material for ‘ four average , competent novels ’ ( Brooke-Rose 1977a:134 ) , but it also led to a frustration with available formal strategies which prepared the way for the radical change in direction her oeuvre was to take with Out in 1964 . |
| 8 | Mellor 's office in life may have been the big attraction , but it also got in the way of a good time . |
| 9 | Not only did the First World War produce a major crisis of authority for the old order , but it also resulted in the harnessing by the State , on an unprecedented scale , of the power and resources of the nation towards the war effort . |
| 10 | At Beltsville in Maryland , a pig injected with human growth hormone grew up to display substantially less backfat ( potentially valuable from the AgriBusiness point of view ) , but it also suffered from arthritis , poor vision , lack of leg coordination and ‘ susceptibility to stress ’ . |
| 11 | Labourism influenced working-class intervention in the formal political sphere through the Labour Party , but it also reached into trade unionism and determined attitudes to alternative bodies of political thought such as toryism , Marxism and fascism . |
| 12 | But it also lay in the European view , at a time when Kissinger was hard at work with his piecemeal diplomacy , that a comprehensive approach rather than a step-by-step strategy was the essential road to peace . |
| 13 | It could capture plain text ( ASCII ) output but it also came with a WordPerfect 5 ‘ printer ’ driver . |
| 14 | Much of the bill was restricted to backing the principles of the 1984 joint declaration between China and the UK [ see pp. 33655-60 ] but it also laid down that , after 1997 , the US would continue to treat Hong Kong as a separate territory in matters such as immigration quotas and most-favoured-nation trading status . |
| 15 | Vermstroy operated from Ipswich but it also operated from Nunes . |
| 16 | The human and material world needed to be cleansed from within , but it also needed to be liberated from the powers without . |
| 17 | This criticism was in part a reflection of the call made by the Report of the Committee on Physical Deterioration for greater physical and mental education for adolescents , but it also pointed to the three main criticisms of clubs which were reiterated years later by Freeman : that they could only really provide amusement ; that their positive educational value was small ; and that they failed to reach the mass of boys . |
| 18 | But it also rallied from a low of 2,851.0 to close just 2.8 down on the day at 2,861.1 , with just over 700 million shares changing hands . |
| 19 | The legislation of 1861 was undoubtedly flawed , but it also set in train changes which affected most levels of Russian government and all levels of Russian society . |
| 20 | I do n't know , of course , but it just seemed to me … well , and then there were the clothes . ’ |
| 21 | It 's the typically cool thing , but it just seemed like a road to nowhere . |
| 22 | It was stupid — but it just seemed like the last straw , Tom , and what can be done ? |
| 23 | ‘ I suppose so , but it just seemed like a bit of harmless fun — and you know , Irish , you 're beautiful when you 're angry . ’ |
| 24 | But it just fell into me as I stood there with her . |
| 25 | It tripped on a book and almost went flying , but it just succeeded in remaining upright . |
| 26 | Beasant said : ‘ I thought I had it covered but it just crept through my finger-tips . ’ |
| 27 | But it just got to me , each item more than the last . |
| 28 | But it just happened to be her best friend 's birthday and she was invited to a special birthday tea and to stay overnight . ’ |
| 29 | That original Chiswick House was believed to have been built by Sir Edward Wardour but it later passed into the hands of Robert Carr , Earl of Somerset . |
| 30 | At one stage the United States government supported the position that the Convention dealt comprehensively , and so exclusively , with the procedures to govern the taking of evidence abroad , but it later resiled from this . |