Example sentences of "but [noun] [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Will took it lying down — all in a good cause of course . |
| 2 | Corsie drew shot , but King beat it to tie things up at 6-6 , before Corsie prevailed on the next end to take the set 7-6 and force the decider . |
| 3 | Corsie drew shot , but King beat it to tie things up at 6-6 , before Corsie prevailed on the next end to take the set 7-6 and force the decider . |
| 4 | Subsequently Ortman dived it to 500 mph plus , but flutter caused it to break up and he used his parachute . |
| 5 | But Stephen said it did n't matter , it did n't matter in the least if her strawberry jam did n't set , no matter what his father said . |
| 6 | Oliver would have gone on wrangling but Rain said it did not matter , her car was outside . |
| 7 | ‘ No bank would lend him the money but Harry made it work . ’ |
| 8 | But BR said it had employed 5,000 extra staff nationwide and invested an extra £85million on safety in the past year . |
| 9 | The FIA tribunal postponed any decision , but Balestre said it had no right to rule on the case until after the Portuguese hearing and should not have heard representation . |
| 10 | This really means relationship by marriage , but naturalists used it to mean family relationship , recognizing that horses and donkeys were closely related even though they denied any actual evolutionary connections . |
| 11 | The issue went to the International Court at The Hague in 1973 , but France said it did not recognise the court 's jurisdiction in the matter . |
| 12 | This had been close-carpeted in a warm golden colour , but Kate guessed it covered more beautiful old wood floors . |
| 13 | But CALA said it intended to pay a final dividend of 1.55p , for an unchanged total of 2.3p . |
| 14 | But Joan admitted it had been a gradual process . |