Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't read , but I took it to the priest and he read it to me . ’ |
| 2 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
| 3 | But I put it at the bottom of the list and consider it can really be done without . |
| 4 | But I put it on the table because it is a risk . |
| 5 | I was bringing my own but I put it in the wrong pocket of my coat and it fell through the lining and smashed . " |
| 6 | But I did it through the love , fo , that I had for the couple , and that because they had waited sixteen year before they eventually found out they could n't have children ! |
| 7 | He said it 's my fault ; but I did it for the best . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah but I want it for the men that 's going to alter the gas . |
| 9 | No , but I hang it in the garage which is |
| 10 | Tough shit really , but I soften it for the sake of the delicacies of future interaction . |
| 11 | Yeah but my done it in the morning go rush out to the post box |
| 12 | but she got it in the greens |
| 13 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |
| 14 | This was n't so easy , but she managed it in the end . |
| 15 | ‘ It took the better part of an hour to get to brass tacks , but we managed it in the end , sir . ’ |
| 16 | But we had it at the N E C for a week and it must have produced hundreds of cages on a routine daily basis . |
| 17 | But they made it to the boat , which sailed in the early hours of 1 September , two days before war was declared . |
| 18 | When you walked into the well what I would call a cupboard but they classed it as the bathroom . |
| 19 | ‘ When I vacated the office I asked the Rates Agency to send me an adjusted bill , but they sent it to the office and I did not get it , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Yes but they take it from the book . |
| 21 | It was fully half an hour before the farmer and the farmhands beat out all the flames , but they managed it in the end . |
| 22 | It came apart in his arms , but he bundled it onto the bed . |
| 23 | In The New York Times , Vincent Canby thought McQueen was ‘ as all-American as a Rover Boy ’ and Hoffman was ‘ not especially convincing ’ , but he enjoyed it as the sort of ‘ escapist movie we used to go see on Saturday night without even bothering to read the marquee ’ . |
| 24 | She did not provide him with wine , to be sure , but he took it in the caffè he frequented , a caffè where politics were argued over far into the night and the arguers fell asleep at the table . |
| 25 | Her husband might want justice , but he wanted it through the proper channels . |
| 26 | But he ended it under the cloud of suspicion caused by a random test which confirmed he had taken drugs . |
| 27 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 28 | Her father was a magician ; he knew something of the old magic , but he turned it against the little people to whom it belonged , and demanded their money , their livestock and even their children to appease the gods with rivers of blood . |
| 29 | Well the speeds it achieves wo n't actually take it into the air … but it takes it into the record books . |
| 30 | It seems necessary to remind de Man ( who claims that " deconstruction is not something that we have added to the text but it constituted it in the first place " ) of Todorov 's statement that de Man himself quotes in Blindness and Insight : |