Example sentences of "but [conj] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nor does it matter ; ‘ our club ’ will have been seething with talk for days , and ‘ I ’ am bound to have heard about Stavrogin 's escapade . |
| 2 | The unconscious blackmail threat levelled at his parents — he would marry Sien unless they accepted him as he was — had n't resulted in his expulsion , but nor had it improved matters . |
| 3 | But nor did it seem natural . |
| 4 | A kite on a line generates lift from the wind streaming past it ; but if released it soon reaches the same speed as the surrounding air and loses it all . |
| 5 | The database may take quite some time to establish , but if networked it will enable scientific , garden , library and photographic staff to check for the existence of a slide before new work is undertaken , thus saving time and money . |
| 6 | It 's really horrible , but but Leave it , leave it on you so I left it on . |
| 7 | I was hoping not to mention this , but since raised it , we 'll have to . |
| 8 | This assertion would be misleading , for not only was cattle stealing not primitive , but when organized it was a rational economic business . |
| 9 | But when discovered it was assigned by its excavators to the late-third or early-fourth century ( Britannia VIII ( 1977 ) , 413 ) : a dating subsequently accepted by Neal ( 1981 , no. 63 ) and Swain and Ling ( Britannia XII ( 1981 ) , 168 : where the wall paintings from the same room as the mosaic are considered to be of late-third/early-fourth century date ) . |
| 10 | But when mastered it gives a great feeling of exhilaration and achievement , in other words your ego 's going to get built if you 're good on that . |
| 11 | In order to avoid the hitches of the last trip , they had carried it in its bag , but when unpacked it was discovered that one of the parts was damaged . |
| 12 | It follows that a critical mass of teachers who see their job as not just delivering education but as re-creating it , in however small a way , is the absolute pre-condition for change that is purposeful and cumulative . |
| 13 | It says this is the only number you want but as read it and said well it does n't really make it clear it 's for reservations and bookings and it does n't really so we 'll just have to make sure that it damn well happens on the advert . |
| 14 | It 's too brilliant , you ca n't read it , but as advertising it 's fine because it attracts your attention and you say ‘ what is this ? ’ . |
| 15 | It is notable that he does not see himself abandoning epistemology , but as continuing it , doing it better than it previously had been done . |