Example sentences of "but it [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most recent , and it 's quite exciting , is to use magnetic resonance imaging to look at erm nuclei in the body and to see what they 're doing and where they are , and that 's going to be very exciting but it involves having a very very large magnet in which one puts a whole patient all at once . |
| 2 | There is a way to make neutrinos decay without producing light — you can achieve almost anything in this sort of physics , as long as you are willing to do nasty things to pretty theories — but it involves conjuring up yet another new particle . |
| 3 | This addition to the maps made them more useful , especially for agricultural purposes , but it entailed resurveying ground already covered and slowed the progress of subsequent work . |
| 4 | Ruth knew there was something strange about him , but it seemed to take her an age to work out what it was : he was wearing a green cloak , and its folds drifted round him as if floating in water . |
| 5 | But it seemed to echo in the quiet of the hall , becoming meaningless , a sonorous groan of a word . |
| 6 | But it seemed to underline just how completely she was falling into his power . |
| 7 | But it seemed to go all right . |
| 8 | Iraq accepted the proposal , but it seemed to evaporate , ostensibly because of an argument about dates . |
| 9 | It sounded lame , but it seemed to do for Alf , who took the conversation in a new direction . |
| 10 | His voice was hoarse , like a whisper , but it seemed to fill the room . |
| 11 | Charity had never felt a true patriot whichever way she might analyse the term , but it seemed to matter that Britain now lay defenceless in the path of a monstrous hybrid composed of two powerful ideologies . |
| 12 | It might have been callous if the situation had been different , but it seemed to suit him , too . |
| 13 | But it seemed to worry Julia and she cried out : |
| 14 | I tried to look very understanding , very sympathetic , but it seemed to frighten him . |
| 15 | She could hear the rush of water , but it seemed to come not from one point but from all around her . |
| 16 | She reached out and touched his face with her fingertips , but it seemed to break whatever spell they had been under . |
| 17 | All had now to be arranged long distance but it seemed to work remarkably well . |
| 18 | It was n't much , but it seemed to work ; or at least , it was a start . |
| 19 | It made it a weekend marriage , but it seemed to work . |
| 20 | It was hardly the joyful mood in which Folly had expected to take possession of her new domain , but it seemed to work well enough . |
| 21 | Complex but it seemed to work . |
| 22 | It was obviously written as encouragement to the soldiers and families separated during the long years of the Second World War , but it seemed to express the yearning that so many young men must have felt when they were far from their families , desolate and frightened : |
| 23 | He knew that he had been brought down specially to hear that , but it seemed to have nothing to do with him . |
| 24 | The more of these properties a dummy possessed the more strongly it was mobbed , but it seemed to make little difference whether the object was a stuffed owl with real plumage or an owl-shaped piece of painted wood . |
| 25 | The Court of Appeal made it clear that the Chief Constable had authority to intervene , but it declined to compel him to do so . |
| 26 | But it said do no . |
| 27 | This has been a difficult chapter , but it had to go into the book . |
| 28 | Not that our sort is given to bragging in any case , but it had given my dad — a branch manager for one of the High Street banks — a certain quiet satisfaction to be able to let his staff know that his son was ‘ going up ’ to Oxford . |
| 29 | But it had given Hope an opening . |
| 30 | André was far too exuberant to be shattered by something like that , but it had given her ego a kick . |