Example sentences of "but it [be] [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I just say that the majority of people will care for their animals but it is those people who buy , we have s er cases where erm people will turn up on Christmas day and say to their elderly relative , We bought you a puppy . |
| 2 | But it 's hard luck I suppose . |
| 3 | What happens if it 's perfect no mistakes but it 's untidy knock one off or two off . |
| 4 | So yeah do n't , you do n't need the nought there but it was good thinking you put it in , putting it in . |
| 5 | Now I can see that I was wrong to assume that mere dedication to a craft ineluctably results in fine work , but it was that conviction which drove me to put Jean-Claude and his work on the map . |
| 6 | It was a cappuccino one , but it was fifty quid it was ! |
| 7 | Both boys burst into tears , but it was eight-year-old Matthew who took the news the hardest . |
| 8 | But it was local craftsmen who built the cloisters and they all get a mention on the windows . |
| 9 | The rental of such an office could not have been great , but it was little things which often had a quite disproportionate impact upon burgh councillors , for such a move would give tangible proof that the party which could arrange it had the ear of government and could thus effect other , and perhaps more far-reaching , changes . |
| 10 | THE big names of British showbusiness were out in force at this year 's Royal Variety Show — but it was overseas performers who milked the loudest applause . |