Example sentences of "but [prep] [adv] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was going to change that start later , but for now it was an easy lead in . |
| 2 | But for once it was the taking part that counted most and when you 've slept in the ruins of a fifties French post office , seen the New Year in with champers in the middle of a sand dune , coped with Idi Amin look-alike policemen and paid backstreet prices to backstreet petrol dealers , you 're going to have memories to last as long as the event . |
| 3 | Again she only lasted three months but for once it was n't her fault . |
| 4 | The Collector had expected that the attack would begin with the howling warcry he had come to dread , but for once it did not ; out of the thin ground mist that lingered in a slight dip in between the churchyard wall and the ruins of the Cutcherry the shapes of men began to appear . |
| 5 | There is nothing manufactured by man that has not been designed , because whether it 's a Rolls-Royce engine or a piece of printed paper , there 's always a decision to be made not only about what it 's going to look like but about how it is going to be made and how it is going to operate . |
| 6 | But after today it 'll be back to earth with a bump . |
| 7 | At one time he had taken a mild interest in literature , especially erotic works , but of late it had flagged . |
| 8 | He had tried to put it out of his mind , but of late it had begun to recur , especially in dreams . |
| 9 | Outside , there were the usual hospital sounds — ambulant patients moving about the ward in slippers , nurses talking at the nurses ' station , the distant squeaking wheel of a cleaner 's trolley — but in here it was very quiet . |
| 10 | The true test of a free society is not in how it treats its best citizens , but in how it treats its worst , its most despised . |
| 11 | By the shore the driftwood was still travelling upriver , but in midstream it was gathering way headlong in the other direction . |
| 12 | Not having to give verbal commands seemed uncanny at first , but before long it just seemed natural . |
| 13 | Initially this new German ‘ victory ’ weapon proved unnerving but before long it became possible for the ‘ V1s ’ to be intercepted by fighter aircraft over the sea , although their speed was a problem , but by moving the bulk of the anti-aircraft artillery units to the Isle of Wight and along the southern coastline of England , it was possible to shoot them down before they reached the London area . |
| 14 | For instance , people have long known that squeezing lemon juice on sliced fruits prevents them from turning brown , but until recently it was not known why lemon juice has this effect . |
| 15 | It does not cause cancer , heart disease , asthma or bronchitis , but until recently it could only be ingested along with several hundred non-addictive , non-soothing but highly toxic chemicals . |
| 16 | A local man bought the car from 's estate when he died in 1965 for £50 and intended to restore her , but until recently it had been rusting away in his garage . |
| 17 | Hyundai 's S-Coupe has always come at a bargain price — but until now it lacked the performance to match its sporty looks . |
| 18 | But until now it 's been ignored . |
| 19 | I had previously caught two individuals of H. tricolor in the Malaise trap but until then it had not been recorded in Britain although it was known from Germany and Japan . |
| 20 | Once you have stopped the attacker in his tracks , then you can deal with the grip itself , but until then it is a second priority . |
| 21 | I do n't want to get Grant into trouble , but until then it does n't go to the fishes . |
| 22 | After 12.30 p.m. it 's a dining hall , but until then it 's a geography classroom as Ousedale School tries to sqeeze in 300 extra children . |
| 23 | But until then it 's down to common sense . |
| 24 | But until then it could happen to someone else . |
| 25 | ‘ It is to be opened up as part of the Teesdale Way but until then it 's not a footpath and it 's fenced off , ’ Coun Biddiscombe said . |
| 26 | Of the second here illustrated , the Moss Provence , Miller said that it had not long been known in London and the first time he saw it ‘ was in 1727 in the garden of Dr Boerhaave near Leyden who was so good as to give me one of the plants , but from where it came I could not learn . |
| 27 | From the upper echelons this seems to be a case for rationalisation but from below it seems that their raison d'être is being removed with the closure of schools , bus services , etc . |
| 28 | It enables analysis to address the role of knowledge as power and leads to a critique of knowledge not based on its truth but on how it affects and is affected by social relations . |
| 29 | ‘ He came out to the hospital every weekend after I first came but since then it 's only every so often he comes out . |
| 30 | But since then it had failed to hold its own against big American firms such as DEC — both in sales and in technical performance . |