Example sentences of "but [conj] it [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we group together all the industries that were predominantly in public ownership on the departure of the Labour government , we find that their total employment was thrown into decline in the North from 1978 to 1981 , but that it continued to grow in the South . |
| 2 | Writing to Brook about the Palestine Committee , a survivor from the Coalition , he said that its nominal chairman was Herbert Morrison but that it had ceased to function , its work having shifted to the Middle East Ministerial Committee under Ernest Bevin . |
| 3 | I explained how it was that as a child I had been told I was an eidetiker but that it had meant nothing to me . |
| 4 | Imagine my disappointment when I staggered down a hill in murky twilight after its purchase to find that not only had it been lying in the back seat of the car for the duration of my climb , but that it had failed to come up and get me when the daylight failed . |
| 5 | A security man working at the centre said the injured man told him one of the gunmen put a sub-machine gun to his head , but that it had failed to go off . |
| 6 | Brazil was a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , but although it had signed the 1967 Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America ( the Treaty of Tlatelolco — see p. 22505 ) it had not signed the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT — see p. 22787 ) , and for this reason had been allowed no international shipments of nuclear fuel since 1978 . |
| 7 | What you write may well be funny , but if it had grown to the extent where it overweighs the actual book you are writing , a piece of comic crime fiction , then you will be spoiling the whole . |
| 8 | But if it had meant working for two months she would have said immediately , as she did now , ‘ I 'll have it . ’ |
| 9 | But if it had to perish twice , I think I know enough of hate . |
| 10 | Not by cheating … but if it meant trimming the petals with a pair of scisasors ten minutes before walking out the hall and the judge wo n't notice it … |
| 11 | But if it troubled to open a history book or to read some political analysis it would see that the thing most needed by a government under pressure at home is an enemy without . |
| 12 | As it is not recorded until the work of Hermann and Florence of Worcester , who states that the saint speared Swegen from his horse , it would not be impossible to consider this story a reaction to taxation by the Normans ; but if it did originate earlier it too conceivably had something to do with Edmund 's increasing popularity , and if Florence 's version was current in Cnut 's time he can not have been flattered by the notion that Edmund had disposed of his father in a similar way to that in which St Mercurius was believed to have killed the emperor Julian the Apostate . |
| 13 | ‘ But if it did happen , there are certain things I would demand … ’ |
| 14 | At the time the offer had thrilled her , not because of the pearls but because it had indicated she would be in his life in the future . |
| 15 | We can be fairly certain that such a reaction did occur , not merely because it is observable among modern primates , but because it had to exist if young males were , in due course of time , to supplant the fathers , and this , for the purposes of reproduction , they had to do . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He put the television on to watch a news programme , but before it had started , the telephone at his elbow rang . |
| 18 | But when it became known that someone ostensibly in the top echelon of the regime was no longer seen at the Ceauşescus ' palace at the nightly film shows or for chess , then whatever the victim 's ostensible rank , his own hangers-on would begin to look for another patron . |
| 19 | A bit slow to start but when it got going it was outstanding . ’ |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | I kept this dark secret for 15 years — but when it started happening in front of the children , I knew I had to do something about it . |
| 22 | But when it did belong to her , she would be old too , like Aunt Alicia . |
| 23 | The final shattering of the delusion did not take place until the 1940s ; but when it did occur , it prompted not the abandonment of the system of the delusion itself but a further and almost incredible elaboration of it . |
| 24 | I used to model for a hairdresser — Herberts in Liverpool — and I had my hair dyed blonde and red , it looked great — honest , but as it started to grow out I neglected it . |