Example sentences of "but [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew it must in theory , but to see it happen was still a lovely surprise . |
| 2 | As soon as I see that a patient 's breathing pattern is changing dramatically or that the eye movement behind the closed lids is altering , I instruct him to be aware of and to understand all that is happening but to see it as if on a film or television screen , so that he is completely detached and feels no physical or mental distress whatsoever . |
| 3 | But to see it from this perspective is to distort it . |
| 4 | It was one thing for Miss Sally-Anne Tunstall , pampered beauty , to contemplate the horrors of poverty from the relative comfort of Vetch Street , but to see it in practice , that was quite another thing . |
| 5 | But to see it from this perspective is to distort it . |
| 6 | In the 75th minute Whitton had his big chance of glory — but wasted it . |
| 7 | They pass a stone doorway in the tunnel wall , but by-pass it in favour of a more obvious way out . |
| 8 | Changes of stream course can sometimes be inferred where a meandering parish boundary leaves the present stream it is following but rejoins it further along its course . |
| 9 | but sit it out |
| 10 | Although famed for rattling off statistics on the recession , rather than the ‘ vision thing ’ , his Sovereignty Lecture for Charter 88 at the start of the election campaign set out some useful parameters for the debate that must now take place : on citizenship and community , ‘ not just tidying up our constitution but transforming it ’ . |
| 11 | He quotes frequently Seneca 's maxim , ‘ Quotidie morimur ’ ( We die daily ) , but transforms it by St Paul 's gloss : ‘ Quotidie morior per vestram gloriam , fratres ’ ( Brethren , for you I die every day : 1 Cor. 15.31 ) ( Lettere a i Familiari , I , p. 351 , and II , p. 371 ) . |
| 12 | The banks say the Phoenix survey is too small to be representative but insist it 's up to customers to check statements . |
| 13 | She tried to recall his face , but got it mixed up with the actor , Edward James Olmos . |
| 14 | I could lend it to you but got it at the moment you know . |
| 15 | But when the Friend begins to age the Poet would wish to die : Here the motif of giving and receiving love , central to this group , uses the traditional metaphor of exchanging hearts , but reanimates it by the particularity with which the trope is extended . |
| 16 | The Jordanian government closed its al-Ruweishid post on the border with Iraq to all non-Jordanian refugees on Jan. 10 , but reopened it on Jan. 18 following renewed promises of UN aid to help with the costs of accommodating refugees from Kuwait and Iraq . |
| 17 | I mean he 's come out over the top of his own defenders and i over big Ormanroyd and he can do little else but push it back down into the pack . |
| 18 | But rapture it was that Saturday afternoon in the spring of 1990 when Ian McGeechan 's tartan lads won the Grand Slam , the Triple Crown , the Calcutta Cup and the hearts of all of us numb with tear-stained joy in the stands and terracings of Murrayfield . |
| 19 | Actually utilise our space not necessarily for the public which obviously is difficult to get to the disabled people etc but using it for something like that . |
| 20 | By not assigning 9 , but using it as " an octave device " , one could establish as a convention a way of producing a hierarchy of numbers allowing for almost infinite addition in array . |
| 21 | Rainbow would prefer right now this minute , but plays it cool . |
| 22 | Considered purely as a recital by Golani , this was a riveting evening : in such a degree of intimacy her restless prowling , crouching , rising to full height , even stamping , combines with the intense commitment of her playing not to impede the music but to dramatise it , to add a further dimension to its urgency . |
| 23 | He was most likely not even reading the Strand , but sniffing it and with it the atmosphere around him . |
| 24 | And the soldiers muttered to one another as they limped and splashed back towards England that the black friars had not only sent the terror , but withdrawn it from them as soon as they turned back , and the devil their master could call it up again in an instant if they so much as looked over their shoulders . |
| 25 | The other three departments keep most information in hard copy but back it up with a small use of online services . |
| 26 | She had forgotten about her tea caddy and the friendly shopkeeper in Sunningdale and she had soon forgotten about the kindness of young people and was reminiscing about the days when she was not alone at the villa but shared it with seven others . |
| 27 | It reminded her of Hilda , and she felt a wave of panic , but fought it down . |
| 28 | Jessica was tempted to be obscene , but fought it back . |
| 29 | This situation needs resolution , but to compare it with the rape of Kuwait hardly strengthens your argument against Saddam . |
| 30 | He granted an injunction restraining the defendant from using and/or disclosing confidential information but qualified it so that it did not apply to communications made by the defendant either to FIMBRA or the Inland Revenue in respect of the matters identified in the defence . |