Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] but it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The occasion of the most recent serious attempt was in 1968 when a Bill designed to further limit the power of the Lords received a second reading in the House of Commons but it foundered . |
| 2 | And er J and W in Kirkwall started to bale hay in Orkney but it did n't pay for you to take to Kirkwall everyday to go to since the war . |
| 3 | Now we have plants in India , Brazil erm we now have one in China , we were about to open one in Russia but it burned down . |
| 4 | The joke was hardly likely to have them holding their ribs in Helsinki but it did reflect on the inordinate importance that gambling plays in the lives of Scottish footballers . |
| 5 | The pallium gave Hygeberht no jurisdiction in Saxon territories or in Kent but it did afford him metropolitan rights over all the Anglian peoples north of the Thames and south of the Humber , which may suggest that Offa was seeking not just an archbishop of the Mercians but a new ecclesiastical order for the Angles of midland and eastern England . |
| 6 | Acton and Shepherd 's Bush , he said , were a long way from Islington but it had not needed the history and memory of Risinghill and William Tyndale to make headteachers alert to the damaging way in which matters of discipline , race , criminality and parental disquiet could be brought together into presentations of hot and not always accurate news . |
| 7 | Collimore Stone won it back brilliantly off Lewis but it came to nothing . |
| 8 | Rumours of transatlantic bids persistently hover over Burmah but it seemed to be the suspected presence of SHV , the big Dutch group , that fuelled the price . |
| 9 | I admit to having been a bit sceptical beforehand about this year 's family holiday to Florida but it turned out to be a huge success , not least on account of the terrific food and service we encountered everywhere . |
| 10 | Wyvis Hall , logically , should have looked smaller to Adam but it did not , it looked much larger . |
| 11 | That was at Newcastle , where he faded to be fourth to Mazmoor but it turned out that he had hit a hurdle or two and cut his legs badly . |
| 12 | An organisation once the size of a Station now resided in one small corner of the airfield at Wyton but it maintained the excellent tradition that saw it produce many thousands of aircrew . |
| 13 | The idea that the Pargeters had been specially chosen because of their similarity to the Ketterings had in no way been confirmed by Fosdyke but it grew in her mind steadily . |