Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] [conj] it [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I knew that it would be difficult to persuade Jimbo that he had to work at the exercises : yet if the treatment were to succeed , it had to be him — Jimbo himself — who , in the end , would reopen the pathway of nerves between brain and muscle . |
| 2 | It 's been a lot of hard work but I knew that it would be when I first came on to the Tour . |
| 3 | I felt I could pretend that you were , it was a secret I had , I almost told you once or twice , but I thought that it might spoil things , that … |
| 4 | He would not talk about it , and you knew not to ask more , but you realised that it must have been the time in his life when he most resembled himself . |
| 5 | Incongruously festive for a stretcher , but she saw that it would serve the purpose very well . |
| 6 | He did n't seem to know what it was himself , but she knew that it could n't be love , and if it was n't love then none of the other possibilities mattered . |
| 7 | ‘ Nonsense , darling , ’ Louise laughed , but she felt that it might possibly be true . |
| 8 | But she doubted whether it would work as well once the system , dominated by West Germany , was diluted by other countries less committed to the policy of bearing down on prices . |
| 9 | But she doubted whether it would work as well once the system , dominated by West Germany , was diluted by other countries less committed to the policy of bearing down on prices . |
| 10 | I would have said at forty one you know you er you 're still probably young enough to get a salaried job but we decided that it might be worth er you trying this avenue . |
| 11 | But they believed that it would be a small part of the £21.3 million . ’ |
| 12 | Mark you , I said as she was too big , but they said as it could just be the water , as they could n't hear no more than the one heart . |
| 13 | These limitations did not make rapid movement impossible , as Marlborough showed in 1704 and Frederick II in 1757 ; but they ensured that it should be the exception rather than the rule . |
| 14 | Trent thought of calling at her to relax but he knew that it would be as pointless as trying another smile . |
| 15 | Broomhead had at first considered giving the woman a salutation from his vast treasury of filthy language when she approached him , but he realised that it might damage his rather good reputation . |
| 16 | ‘ It is pretty clear they have got the message from institutional shareholders , ’ but he warned that it could take years for Barclays to recover from the bad lending made in the late 1980s . |