Example sentences of "it but [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My family did not see it but they heard the noise of the explosions . |
| 2 | You know young Neil Lewis coming in for a game like this is tremendous performance and Michael Whitlow and Colin Hill have been up against it but they 've worked hard and I think it 's been a great game and er one nil probably does n't er justify both sides . |
| 3 | Erm John 's Dream the National Playwright 's Network actually wrote back to me and said they 're quite happy to read your plays for a fee erm but I intend to re-write that before I put it in er for a reading erm Oh , I I sent a poem called Pleasure to Woman 's Weekly in June last year and I suspect they were actually planning to use it but they 've had a New Year 's clear-out and I got it back yesterday . |
| 4 | They 've refurbished it but they 've not made any space for a down escalator have they ? |
| 5 | Ralph had planned it but they had all been party to his evil . |
| 6 | We had delivered it but they had n't taken it from the gate house to you know , normal procedure but they , we delivered it normally but they had n't taken it to the exact part of the hospital it was going to . |
| 7 | They never did ring it but they meant to . |
| 8 | No definition is spot on really , you can always find difficulties with it but they do sort of discuss it in the first paragraph . |
| 9 | Well I do n't know whether they 'd get it but they do n't want to upset people , the fact that they 've been really inconvenienced by not having it does n't seem to come into their thinking . |
| 10 | You know , they counted it but they missed putting it in . |
| 11 | And when they opened the Ark they should have discovered Moses in it but they did n't because it was and there we are . |
| 12 | I could not go to it but they showed it on television . |
| 13 | DOWN may or may not have meant it but they have certainly succeeded in providing Derry with an extra incentive to triumph in next Sunday 's Ulster championship glamour tie . |
| 14 | This has ruined my sitting room and I have been onto the council about it but they have done nothing . ’ |
| 15 | John Gorman says … they still believe in themselves and still think they can do it but they need to get a result … |
| 16 | Social Services or somebody to do with or somewhere contacted him and asked him to do it but they paid all cash . |
| 17 | I ca n't afford it but they say I 've got to pay it so they 'll take me to court . |
| 18 | Dad used to put erm a lot on it but we had to have erm the chimney sweep at ours for quite a long time |
| 19 | There 's a forest fifty miles off , it 's outside our window because it 's not in this room and to come a little nearer home ther there 's a campus outside our window but we ca n't exactly see very much of it but we know it 's there and it 's got some birds in it , it 's probably got some little insects in it and there 's a woodpecker |
| 20 | That 's it like a desk that 's really that that was the American way of spelling it but we spell it that way now . |
| 21 | It was too dark to see what lay behind it but we came to a corner where a tall wooden tower rose suddenly towards the stars . |
| 22 | Well we thought about one but it but we let it grow again because we just had n't the time . |
| 23 | We learnt a few lessons on how we could have improved it but we felt very pleased with it as our first attempt . |
| 24 | we nearly went to see it but we missed . |
| 25 | up and talked to the guy sitting in front of them and he said Yes we 've got it but we have n't got it on those yet . |
| 26 | But Norwich manager Mike Walker remained coy about the destination of the Championship saying : ‘ It would be stupid to say we will win it but we have as good as chance now as the others . |
| 27 | Adults can go into it but we have found generally speaking that particularly on Friday , erm it 's full of kids . |
| 28 | Some things can be done without it but we do need money . |
| 29 | Now go to the C L , it 's just one element , we do n't need the brackets it would n't be wrong to write the brackets round it but we do n't usually bother . |
| 30 | Erm , I think they 're quite good at saying stop smoking , or stop taking it but we do n't offer anything in it 's place . |