Example sentences of "but [prep] [noun] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Romantic ideal of the free artist , creating from inner conviction , was not far off , but for Mozart it had not yet arrived . |
| 2 | But for decades it 's been used as a giant dustbin . |
| 3 | But for Boro it worked . |
| 4 | But for Heseltine it brought a kettleful of resentment , accumulated over more than six years , to boiling-point . |
| 5 | But of course it requires a two-way thinking operation . |
| 6 | I , I was just going to say that the county surveyor said that everything comes to this committee before anything else happens , but of course it goes to the press before it comes to this committee and that shows with , with the |
| 7 | But of course it turns out that the blithe estivant was only planning what he doubtless terms a Weekend Break . |
| 8 | As a general rule ten years is long enough , but of course it depends on the individual and it depends on the company too . |
| 9 | Erm it perhaps does n't strike us as being very revolutionary but of course it depends from the context that you 're in erm to perhaps some of the absolute rulers of er of er perhaps , this was revolutionary . |
| 10 | But of course it took a little bit of time , an hour or so , and th , the woman came round again , they said ca n't do you today |
| 11 | But of course it went , you see with the traffic and things like that I 'd perhaps it would n't have been s quite so handy for me because I 'd no parking room there because there was a big back to there . |
| 12 | Priestley was to recall Payday as being a remarkable film but of course it had not been a typical Chaplin film . |
| 13 | But of course it had no power at all . |
| 14 | She had wanted the night to stretch into infinity — but of course it had not . |
| 15 | I gave it a wide berth and went to sit on the rug , but of course it had gone so I sat on one of the chairs instead , had a good long wash and settled down for a nap . |
| 16 | Once they had pretended they were childhood sweethearts , played at falling in love , but of course it had all ended in laughter . |
| 17 | But of course it does n't really work like that . |
| 18 | Er but there have been a lot of issues and we 've done well in that field but of course it does n't produce the same kind of fee income as the M and A activity . |
| 19 | But of course it does nothing to improve employment rights for men or women who may be temporarily incapacitated . |
| 20 | I thought of weather vane but of course it does n't fit in so that 's out . |
| 21 | I think it 's probably fairly similar , but of course it gets more sophisticated , both in terms of the intellectual level at which you talk about chemistry , the concepts and so forth , and also in terms of the sort of experiments you can do because we have such sophisticated apparatus now , which you could n't possibly get in a school laboratory . |
| 22 | but of course it 's got eggs in it and it , it 's no good is it ? |
| 23 | This approach sounds simple , but of course it demands a high degree of professionalism on everybody 's part . |
| 24 | In fact the chronicle succeeds in having its cake and eating it , all the way back to the stir caused by Nicholas Stavrogin 's arrival in ‘ our town ’ , when it is recorded among other things that he seemed to know a lot — ‘ But of course it did n't take much knowledge to astonish us ’ . |
| 25 | But of course it did , and in the end our event was the only one to make money for their thingy , and we stayed there . |
| 26 | But of course it did in a sense get done , but when Milton did write his great poem , as we 'll see , it came out very differently . |
| 27 | It knocked him back and I rushed out , but of course it depended on his being stunned . |
| 28 | Vasily Gloukhov , an engineering director with the Russian delegation , admitted : ‘ Yes we can sell arms , but of course it has to be done through proper channels . ’ |
| 29 | But of course it has been all right . |
| 30 | This was a great boost to UN authority , but of course it has also |