Example sentences of "but it [vb mod] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raw garlic added to your pet 's meal also deters fleas and gets rid of worms — but it may make its breath smell for a while ! |
| 2 | I do not believe that a contract which clarifies hours worked or tasks to be done will prevent teachers from caring , but it may make it rather more difficult to implement school-based initiatives . |
| 3 | This is the cheaper option , but it may leave you stuck with single glazing and a recurrence of your existing maintenance problems in a few years time . |
| 4 | Follow through will cost you dearly in time and effort but it may reward you handsomely in terms of what happens to your report . |
| 5 | The model does not provide answers to some of the curricular problems which concern us , but it may help us to frame our questions more accurately . |
| 6 | But it may say something also about the condition of the musical theatre that this subject has caught the attention of two composers . |
| 7 | ‘ But it may kill him when he knows ! |
| 8 | ‘ This shoe 's too small for me , but it might fit you . ’ |
| 9 | But it might do something . |
| 10 | I do n't think it will make me a vegetarian but it might make me think about it . |
| 11 | I do n't think any prison will make me better , but it might make me not come back . |
| 12 | But it might help your learners if they used some of your techniques for the first five or ten minutes of viewing . |
| 13 | system probably , but it might use them on . |
| 14 | But it might take them days to get back if the weather 's bad when they arrive at Patriot Hills . ’ |
| 15 | but it 'll mean you can get a lot of them . |
| 16 | but it 'll make it Easter weekend |
| 17 | But it 'll tell you how many first appointments you 've had , how many fact finds you did , how many subsequent presentations , how many , how many sales you did in September ninety three , week , all the rest of it , and right at the bottom here it 's got the ratios , right , how many approaches to sales agreed . |
| 18 | ‘ But it 'll cost ye three quid , ’ Rab said , ‘ if ye get beat , if it takes a week . ’ |
| 19 | But it 'll cost something in the region of a hundred pounds to replace a set of tyres . |
| 20 | You can buy new covers for it but it 'll cost you about eighty quid |
| 21 | ‘ It is n't exactly the Tower of London , ’ I said , ‘ but it 'll do me . ’ |
| 22 | Needs a bit of cleaning up , but it 'll do me all right . ’ |
| 23 | It 's a bit rude , but it 'll give you an idea of the club ethos then : it 's called ‘ The Debauchee ’ . ’ |
| 24 | Well John was saying to me , that eh , Bill is such a perfectionist that although he 's done good works already , he will ensure that every single corner of that house will be immaculate and exactly the way he wants it , but it 'll take him three or four years to do it . |
| 25 | ‘ Seems they intend to , but it 'll take 'em some time . |
| 26 | ‘ But it 'll take you the best part of two days to provide the concealment , ’ said Dorrainge , surveying Lugh 's neatly drawn plans and watching the men sawing off branches and raking up leaves from the forest floor . |
| 27 | ‘ No , but it 'll take your mind off the nausea and dizziness . ’ |
| 28 | Wicked waste of fuel , but it 'll fry anything close in front . |
| 29 | ‘ There 's nothing in it about the murder , except the police are continuing with their enquiries , ’ said Joe , ‘ but it 'll help you pass the time . |
| 30 | Well , play the madam if you must , but it 'll get you no favours from me . |