Example sentences of "but [adv] [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was very warm for Kirkistown and I lost concentration half way through , but luckily got it back together before the end . ’ |
| 2 | It was very warm for Kirkistown and I lost concentration half way through , but luckily got it back together before the end . ’ |
| 3 | But there were plenty of beautiful and recognisable faces to be seen amongst the anonymous , but none-the-less powerful , fashion editors , still enough buying power in this room alone to rock empires , even if no house made a profit from the couture but rather used it for a loss-leading advertisement and a mark of prestige . |
| 4 | Flaubert hesitated , being frightened of rabies ; but eventually accepted it . |
| 5 | RCA was initially keen to release ‘ Davni Chasy ’ from the Ukrainian LP but eventually agreed it would be a mistake for the band 's début single on a major label . |
| 6 | He was slightly perturbed by this but eventually found it very funny because rehearsals became very convivial . |
| 7 | Briefly , he raised the blaster , but swiftly lowered it again . |
| 8 | But for our last point we had to rely on being half-right about two issues : we rightly predicted a Common Market between the US and Canada — but wrongly thought it would also include Mexico and Venezuela ; and we predicted that unemployment would rise sharply in the West , causing more flexible working patterns — but were over-optimistic about the implications , seeing masses of people returning to school in middle life and then starting a new career . |
| 9 | Irishmen had long used it to denote ‘ complete ’ or ‘ permanent ’ , and Irish labourers brought it to Lancashire ; Turner did not invent the term , but merely gave it a new and more specialist application . |
| 10 | I did not acknowledge , but merely recorded it , as you instructed . ’ |
| 11 | The court distinguished Hughes but obviously doubted it . |
| 12 | His face screwed up into what Delaney thought was pain , but suddenly realised it was an attempt at a grin . |
| 13 | After proctors of the lower clergy had objected in 1269 to being committed to a grant simply by the assent of the bishops , a council of prelates in the next year agreed on their own behalf to a subsidy of one twentieth for the king , but only extended it to the rest of the clergy after approval by diocesan synods . |
| 14 | She did n't want to swim this afternoon , but only said it was slight indigestion . ’ |
| 15 | In 1804 , aged 22 , he moved to a clerical post in London but soon left it to study law in the city . |
| 16 | She allowed the idea of falling in love with him dance across her mind but soon dismissed it with a smile . |
| 17 | This does take a bit of sussing out , but once mastered it all makes sense . |
| 18 | He was fined £50 for breaching a local by-law but yesterday claimed it was everybody 's right to search for bait in a ruling dating back to the Magna Carta in 1215 . |
| 19 | But hardly had it reached our screens last July than it was plagued by troubles and controversy . |
| 20 | Hearing her own firmness doubted , she felt the beginnings of anger but quickly suppressed it . |
| 21 | The 1865 Salon did exhibit Manet 's Olympia but quickly moved it to a place that made viewing almost impossible for the public . |
| 22 | CONGLOMERATE Williams Holdings increased profits by £50m , but still insisted it could see ‘ no evidence of significant economic improvement ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ I know I 'm going to regret this , ’ I said , but still said it . |
| 24 | PREMIER John Major knew the Iraq arms embargo was being breached three years ago but still denied it , Labour claimed yesterday . |
| 25 | The government 's policy of gradual economic reform , which also emphasized increased foreign trade and investment , was modest in comparison with " shock " austerity programmes elsewhere in Latin America , but still lost it public support in the June 1990 congressional elections [ see p. 37529 ] . |
| 26 | He told the hearing in Chelsea , west London , auditors first thought £34,500 was missing but later realised it was a small fortune . |
| 27 | In interview , she at first denied being dishonest but later admitted it . |
| 28 | ‘ But later admitted it ? ’ she asked fatalistically . |
| 29 | She was upset , but later reflected it had n't been as bad as it could have been . |
| 30 | They put it on to tape and called it ‘ Cossachok ’ , but later gave it the proper title of ‘ Hopak ’ . |