Example sentences of "[verb] but [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her explanation : ‘ He was going to tour but when it got closer he realised he did n't want to . |
| 2 | all the satellites hanging down it was very good the way it had all been done in , in that respect but what I found was the first bit was very boring , I found but when it got going a bit it was better but the whole moral of the story was that nowhere is perfect to live but it 's hard for y young children like this |
| 3 | I , when , when we go down to playschool I walk but because it takes what fifteen minutes to walk into town I put him in the pushchair |
| 4 | One torso is so weathered that little can be said but that it does seem to show the same primitive technique as Nikandre 's . |
| 5 | Finally we were told that a team had been formed but that it contained no skilful players , we remained sceptical ! |
| 6 | And the reason it likes you is not because of the bucket of wild oats you bring but because it thinks you are a horse too . |
| 7 | That 's X squared but when it 's differentiated cos you 've got ta go back into the bracket it comes out as that . |
| 8 | A bit slow to start but when it got going it was outstanding . ’ |
| 9 | I feel that this is a difficult poem to understand but when it has been read a few times the meaning becomes clear . |
| 10 | The psychologist commented that Balbinder had liked having a reading book and clearly wanted to read but when it came to reading he did not understand what he was doing but relied on guessing . |
| 11 | So anyway I er the War came and went but before it went I was in , went int eh Army of course . |
| 12 | Mark Whiteside ( 18 ) , said he had only recently started modelling but that it had all been good fun . |
| 13 | It does n't follow that the cap/name link disappears but that it becomes so to say transpersonalized . |
| 14 | Once the process was completed , older boys , apprentice papermakers , came and dislodged the sheet , taking it away to the drying trestles , where it had to be carefully watched and removed after it had dried but before it began to turn yellow in the sun . |
| 15 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |