Example sentences of "but it gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it gave him an excuse to retire for a while , to re-assess things . |
| 2 | Mind you , it was partly her fault ; they could afford to live without her factory work , but it gave her some company and a feeling of contributing to society . |
| 3 | But it gave a warm , satisfying feeling to know I had done something right . |
| 4 | I did resent her quite a lot for what she did but it gave way after a few months . |
| 5 | Through that , Red Rhino came up with a matching deal which was not very high in terms of money or anything but it gave them some status , certainly with promotion . |
| 6 | But it gave its inner-city policy a new direction by stressing the role of private enterprise in economic regeneration . |
| 7 | It also printed the term as ‘ war ’ rather than war , but it gave close observers a full and accurate description of the weapons on both sides . |
| 8 | The book was conceptually too demanding , but it gave a young , reluctant reader new expectations that have lasted a lifetime . |
| 9 | Not only did this save the horses the pull up the hill through the village , but it gave them the occasion for one more glimpse of Tamar and the children , who stood on the steps , waving . |
| 10 | But it gave me heart to see one thug get what he deserves . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't explain , but it gave me the most terrible feeling . |
| 12 | It all began when I won New Faces , but it gave me a very big head . |
| 13 | British companies rarely welcomed headhunters positively ; they engaged them out of desperation , but it gave the good firms the chance to rise to the occasion . |
| 14 | Not only was this behaviour upsetting for anyone hearing it , but it gave my walking partner and I quite a scare . |
| 15 | The software will be available on Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc workstations from the third quarter of the year , the company says , but it gave no indication of the price for it . |
| 16 | But it gave an added attraction to the plenary session anyway . |
| 17 | Civil-rights activists were appalled by the new brutality of the police , but it gave courage to ordinary people to become informers . |
| 18 | Her arms ached , but it gave her time to turn over in her head the encounter which had marked the day , and decide whether she wanted to share it with Marlin or not . |
| 19 | Dei Verbum 12 may seem very elementary today , but it gave needed encouragement to long-suffering Catholic exegetes . |
| 20 | Today this chapter may seem almost too anodyne to be significant , but it gave much-needed relief and encouragement to Catholic New Testament scholars ( see Fitzmyer , 1982 , pp. 97–142 ) . |
| 21 | It was hot and the demonstration went on much too long , but it gave us all some idea of how caring the teachers were and it was a practical illustration of what the school was trying to do . |
| 22 | But it gave the owners an unfortunate concession for the future . |
| 23 | This was only a fraction of the total size of the European economy , but it gave assistance in some key areas , was of particular importance in strengthening the French and Italian governments and forced the Europeans to work together in overcoming their problems . |
| 24 | True that the railway did not invent much of this beauty , but it gave us new vistas of it . |
| 25 | Erm I 'm not saying that er there were n't problems in security and using public transport and fear of using public transport after dark , but we were quite surprised that compared with the rest of the U K it was erm not acceptable but it gave us an indication on , on where to go from there on , erm and also I think er the important factor that in the lower in Strathclyde that we 've actually consulted women in terms of er what they want and what they need er in the transport world erm in public transport and that 's not lip service we 've actually had discussions groups and that information has been fed into the large erm public transport review that were undertaking at the present time . |
| 26 | She studied his face a moment longer but it gave nothing away . |
| 27 | I ducked so fast I was n't sure whether he 'd seen me or not , but it gave me a prickly feeling just to imagine it , so I scuttled for the door and legged it up the spiral stairway three steps at a time , just in case . |
| 28 | He had to go the long way around , but it gave him plenty of time to watch for any indication that there might be anybody at home . |
| 29 | But it gave her a clear view into the houses backing on to the tracks , the private mess usually tidied out of sight , the outside lavatories with unhinged doors , the laundry racks flimsy as the skeleton of a bird 's wing , with trousers and underwear like broken feathers hanging ; a burst , sodden mattress . |
| 30 | I knew there was nothing wrong with her lungs — the trouble seemed to be in the throat area — but it gave me a little more time to think . |