Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't , I have n't got a clue but I knew it the minute the second you said it I knew it . |
| 2 | Some people do n't do anything — some people 's places really are n't clean … well , this one is n't very , but I keep it the best I can . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ The van was not there at 6pm but I noticed it a little bit later . |
| 4 | But I like it a bit stronger than that . |
| 5 | ‘ Sorry , but I make it a rule never to have working lunches — so bad for the digestion , I find . |
| 6 | I gather this is normal practice but I find it a little unreasonable . |
| 7 | It is neither the ninety seven thousand , nine hundred and fifty seven pounds claim by Mr nor the forty seven thousand one hundred and eighty five pound figure contended for by Mr but I find it a fair figure for the cost of the plaintiff 's transport in the years ahead . |
| 8 | Th we th , I think at that time it was just the done thing , you hand out tranquillizers , erm but I found it a , a really bad experience |
| 9 | Toughened glass is glass which has been heat treated to make it four to five times stronger than normal glass , but which gives it the characteristic that , should it break , it does so in harmless tiny fragments rather than the dangerous slivers associated with normal glass . |
| 10 | Good try — but you got it the wrong way round ! |
| 11 | But you see it every day I mean |
| 12 | It was the long way round , but she did it every day . |
| 13 | But we called it a playhouse , it felt like one . |
| 14 | The yeuk was the Well just as you would say er Just a hook but we called it the yeuk Y E U K. |
| 15 | And the other thing about visual things , let's , let's say there is a reference to somebody having piles , but they make it a visual gag |
| 16 | This Meeting know they have no title to impose a Tax upon the Community at large towards this purpose , but they feel it an indispensible duty to express how desirable it would be for the use and service of the inhabitabts of Islay . |
| 17 | But they do it the other way as well . |
| 18 | So that 's you can use that in the bath as well , but they call it a shower gel because a shower oil because they think people usually have a shower in the morning and a bath at night . |
| 19 | ‘ I do , ’ she answered , ‘ but everybody gives it a different name . |
| 20 | But he thought it a reasonable request to ask for a route and he took himself away to Tara 's great map room to procure maps for them . |
| 21 | But he calls it a world , and he 's such a good writer that he can make it seem like one . |
| 22 | One of them , Stuart Surridge , did not live to see the production , which is dedicated to him ; but he gave it a memorable quote when he reflected on his Surrey players of the 1950s , with whom he won five consecutive County Championships : they were a great side , he recalled : ‘ All they wanted was a kick up the arse ! ’ |
| 23 | He claimed the housing market was showing signs of revival but he gave it a prod anyway by raising the threshold on stamp duty from £30,000 to £60,000 , move that will help mainly first-time buyers . |
| 24 | But he found it a very happy time . |
| 25 | But it made it a very anxious first night for me , and before the curtain went up , as I sat in my dressing-room in make-up and costume ready to go on stage , Guthrie , who 'd been really very sympathetic if not totally convinced all along , came in , patted me on the shoulder and said , " Whatever happens , dear , we were right to do it . " |