Example sentences of "it but [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to stop it but succeeded only in propelling it across the line . |
| 2 | Because that misidentification insisted on making trade unions the vehicle for it but insisted also on the continuance of their traditional role , the outcome was bound to be primarily about an extension of their power in the performance of that role , the role that implicates trade unionism as the reciprocal to the ownership of the means of production and provision within the total system , Capitalism , as it evolved in Victorian Britain . |
| 3 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |
| 4 | Most of them did nothing about it but hurried on , some scowling , one , a child , making a face at the camera , holding up his hands as if they were big ears and waggling his fingers . |
| 5 | I was making heavy weather of it but dared not rest for the cold . |
| 6 | He liked the effects of it but did n't like having to smoke it . |
| 7 | ‘ Five of the grandchildren went to Euro Disney on a school trip and loved it but did n't have time to really do it justice . |
| 8 | But sometimes I felt she took over and I got annoyed about it but did n't like to say . |
| 9 | I left them to it but did n't have to wait long . |
| 10 | However what appeared to be a Bofors gun mounted on the fort on the breakwater , manned by three men , observed the aircraft and fired at it but did not obtain sufficient depression . |
| 11 | On 19 May a copy of AFHQ 's " Distone Order " of 17 May that all " dissident Yugoslavs " should be evacuated to Italy was submitted to Gen McCreery who saw it but did not date his initials or order any action . |
| 12 | She denied it but did not tell him she had seen him fighting with the pedlar or that the man had chased her and Oliver in Nice . |
| 13 | I wonder how many others would have liked to sign it but did not feel that they should . |
| 14 | Men who had been asleep and were woken up by the noise did not appear to resent it but sat up on one elbow and stared . |