Example sentences of "but [verb] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that they had been warned off but made it the more attractive . |
| 2 | Suggest he advances as far as the stream and stops them there , but make it a tactful suggestion . |
| 3 | Erm we 'll do a fairly simple one and then use the same one but make it a little bit more complicated . |
| 4 | In 1983 he took over the captaincy of Jamaica when Rowe went to South Africa but found it a difficult business , perhaps because he is too quiet and introspective for cricket leadership . |
| 5 | But roughing it a bit is part of the fun . ’ |
| 6 | Doing fair copies of written work , infrequently and not as a punishment , can be useful ; but give it a real purpose . |
| 7 | Maybe all that happens now is that you feel tired , but give it a year or two and — ’ |
| 8 | You may not listen , but give it a thought . ’ |
| 9 | The political crisis which vastly increased its recruitment could not help but give it an unusual character . |
| 10 | We 'll try install , bu but give it an explicit path . |
| 11 | We pray for those who have work , but find it a pressure and a source of stress . |
| 12 | Porterfield added : ‘ We started well but lost it a bit and I was happy to be level at half-time . |
| 13 | Vaughan loves to cook , but finds it a punishing way to make a living : ‘ People told me that there was no job harder than nursing , ’ recalls Vaughan , ‘ but they were wrong ! |
| 14 | But giving it a good clean out and getting |
| 15 | Owing to my single-handed battle with the sandwiches , I was not late but cutting it a little fine , and Alan was already in the office writing a cheque when I panted in . |
| 16 | The best time to do this is first thing in the morning , after going to the bathroom , wearing your night clothes or nothing at all , but keep it the same every day . |
| 17 | Cadfael felt it , but thought it no more than the tension of the sortes . |
| 18 | Bowart liked it , but thought it a trifle long . |
| 19 | Emor was a lot of things , but to call it a game was doing it an injustice . |
| 20 | It is also possible , also without such misuse , not to call the second member an effect , but to call it a nomic correlate instead , as we have . |
| 21 | before a final all-embracing italicized section , looking back in its typography , placing , and , most importantly , its rhythm , recalls the opening nursery rhyme chorus , but gives it a universal voice which seems to include all that we have heard before in what is now a ritual chant ending with an appropriately childlike sound , |
| 22 | His new Food and Beverage Manager appears to accept the idea as theoretically desirable , but gives it a low priority in practice : privately , he has been urging Winter to ‘ crack the whip a bit ’ , arguing that the whole establishment needs ‘ a good shake up ’ before reforms can be introduced effectively . |
| 23 | He first embarked on an Open University degree in the technology faculty some ten years ago , but gave it a rest for a few years before starting in earnest in 1986 , in his second year at Wedgwood . |
| 24 | Berle met with Canadian officials at the end of March 1944 , and told them that he liked their draft convention , but considered it a long-term rather than an immediate possibility . |