Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 'm sorry but where we went it was great |
| 2 | He remembered that Firelight had to feed it with milk , but where she kept it he had no idea . |
| 3 | But so we got it there . |
| 4 | There followed a time of uncertainty and bloodshed which was eventually resolved when the republic developed into an empire with Augustus as its first emperor from 27 B.C. The Augustan period from then until his death in A.D. 14 was one of the great and successful ages of man and , architecturally , this is reflected in the many great buildings which were erected under the auspices of Augustus whose boast was that when he came to Rome it was a city of bricks but that he left it a city of marble . |
| 5 | Fisheries Minister Jan Henry Olsen said a quota would be set after the meeting of the International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) in Kyoto in May but that he expected it to be in the range of a " few hundred " minke whales a year . |
| 6 | So , repression , it 's not that Freud dropped the concept of repression but that he elaborated it and made it much more sophisticated , and the mechanisms of defence are the means , you could say they 're the means by which er repression erm comes about . |
| 7 | But that I raised it knowing you hate it . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was n't that loneliness chose me , but that I chose it , proudly wrapping myself in it , like a cloak against the pollution of the world . |
| 9 | The answer she gave was not that she did n't know Mr Lawson 's stated reason for resigning , but that she found it incomprehensible . |
| 10 | but once they knew it meant going to India |
| 11 | But although she said it she could not be certain that it was true . |
| 12 | But although he aimed it at Nicholas , it fired into the air , for the boy knocked it sideways and held it . |
| 13 | But although I chose it virtually at random , this does not make it ‘ typical ’ , any more than the horrific Bihar gaol described by Sinha ( 1978 ) in which 143 people had died within three years . |
| 14 | But although I found it impossible not to be moved by the vibes and hype of enthusiastic publicity people and charming sales teams , there is no getting away from the fact that it is going to be a very tough year , with too many major titles to be able to do justice to them all ; and I do n't see any real evidence of anyone pruning their lists . |
| 15 | No one quite ascended to poster cliché heaven and declared that ‘ Michelle Pfeiffer is so sexy it 's a crime ’ , but if they had it would have emphasised some of the ironies that underly Michelle Pfeiffer 's striking star profile . |
| 16 | But if they needed it , they knew they could always get work with him . |
| 17 | But if they set it off without , without noticing that you 've gone like . |
| 18 | The above example is hypothetical , ie because I do n't have his address I ca n't write to him ; but if I had it I would then be in a position to write to him . |
| 19 | ‘ It all depends on our fitness problems , but if I said it was unlikely Ferguson would get the call it could end up sounding like famous last words , ’ said Roxburgh . |
| 20 | But if I felt it might be time for a change I would have to think about that as well . ’ |
| 21 | It is strange and I can understand the criticism , but if I sold it , I 'd have no home and no money . |
| 22 | ‘ I carry no religion , ’ he told her , ‘ but if I did it would be the ancient Jewish religion of my ancestors ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ But if she packed it it should have been with the rest of her things . |
| 24 | She said she knew nothing of a sectarian feud in the old days of Stormy Hill but if she did it was not the kind of thing you discussed with strangers , I sensed . |
| 25 | Gary 's great strength was an ability to get to a ball first in the penalty area , but if he received it at his feet 30 yards from goal he was looking for help , to lay it off and get into the penalty area . |
| 26 | GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it . |
| 27 | But if you made it law that the breweries would lose their retail outlet and the publican and barman would lose their licences , you 'd soon find they make time and make staff check up to see if people were drunk . |
| 28 | But if you got it you might find it would be cheaper to do your house up using these clients rather than sell . |
| 29 | But if you took it regularly … |
| 30 | But if you understood it properly , you saw it repeating itself . |