Example sentences of "but [adv] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 2 | This is an easy way to have a number of gliders wrecked by the wind , but luckily it does not occur very often . |
| 3 | The tree was so big that , if it had fallen into the clearing , it would have flattened most of the gathering , but luckily it went in the other direction , toppling over the cliffside . |
| 4 | I braced myself for the explosion but luckily it went between the wheels . |
| 5 | Obviously cock-ups like this we can well do without , but thankfully it does n't detract from the game too much . |
| 6 | Perth has a wonderful setting , and Sydney is beautiful with a really cosmopolitan bustle , but thankfully it does not have the enormous traffic jams which characterise so many cities of this type . |
| 7 | ‘ But thankfully it looks like things 'll be gittin' back to normal again round these parts . |
| 8 | IN the West Indies the appropriately coloured rainbow flag for friendship can sometimes be used to replace the plethora of different ensigns ( there are more ensigns than steel bands among the islands ) , but mostly it has become merely an additional flag . |
| 9 | A few leading officials believed that free speech , human rights and other concepts embraced by the term ‘ democracy ’ were honourable in themselves , but mostly it appeared that support for democracy was based on promoting economic progress . |
| 10 | The first is that the meaning of a word is not fixed like a dictionary definition , but rather it varies according to the words with which it enters into combination : consider the different meanings of ‘ white ’ in the expressions ‘ white wine ’ and ‘ white coffee ’ . |
| 11 | First , all the evidence that is available shows that the expansion of the social services did not so much rely on the workers made redundant from the industrial sector but rather it drew on new sources of labour — mainly women . |
| 12 | Now this does not merely pose the cyclical nature of development under capitalism , although of course this is implied , but rather it suggests that even in those periods of upturn or growth there will be oscillations and deviations , so that the cycle itself is contradictory . |
| 13 | He can not approach it by superimposing successive and ever more accurate ( more informed ) mental approximations to the real thing ; he can not name it , like an object , without fear of equivocation ; but rather it lies here , in the moment through which he is passing , and the important thing is to see that . |
| 14 | But somewhere it says about the amount it cost , but I mean if must be like that . |
| 15 | For a while it proved a highly successful combination , but eventually it became apparent that the Japanese spirit could not compensate for inferiority in industrial strength and natural resources in dispelling any sense of national insecurity . |
| 16 | I perfected the technique of entering my bedsit without anyone hearing me or noticing me , but eventually it became impossible to stay there ad infinitum without paying my rent , so I took all my military kit and some clothes and set myself up in the changing room at the barracks . |
| 17 | Then her hiding-place had begun to move , roughly at first with many jolts , but eventually it began to rock with even undulating movements . |
| 18 | Iain did n't notice her for a while , but eventually it dawned on him that the blur in the corner of his eye was n't just a blob of grease on his eyelash . |
| 19 | But eventually it led to several notable improvements in the arrangements for the early detection of mental ill-health among faculty members . |
| 20 | ‘ I spotted the old Humber while I was on duty and at first thought it would take me a couple of years to restore — but eventually it took seven ! |
| 21 | But eventually it cost him a term at Her Majesty 's pleasure . |
| 22 | It took all of his strength to free the buckled doorway , but eventually it broke free with a protesting groan . |
| 23 | Charles tried the latch of the gate ; he had to push hard but eventually it yielded . |
| 24 | Next to the eastern granary the aqueduct , which no doubt had served the successive forts , was provided with a new channel and distribution tanks ; the source of water is unknown but presumably it lay on the higher ground to the north of Hadrian 's Wall . |
| 25 | Which I guess theoretically you can do under Windows but presumably it has its own locking mechanism . |
| 26 | But perhaps it classified him as out of action , impotent despite his puissant armour . |
| 27 | Partly it was pride ; I could n't countenance exposing all that I was feeling ; but — and I know this does n't mitigate anything , but perhaps it balances the self-interest , self-protection or whatever it was — even then I was also still afraid of succumbing to the temptation to use the power I sensed I could have over you , and the use would have been abuse . ’ |
| 28 | The suggestion of Trotter ( 1949 ) that the whole of the South Wales coalfield was underlain by a regional thrust plane , probably represented at surface by the Careg Cennen disturbance , was scornfully rejected by O. T. Jones and others in one of the Geological Society 's historic controversies , but perhaps it deserves critical reconsideration in the light of recent ideas about deep crustal detachment zones . |
| 29 | " Well , " Graham said slowly , deciding he had better say something nice , " it 's good , but perhaps it needs a little work . " |
| 30 | But perhaps it reveals more of the inherent uncertainty of experimental research than the tidiness which precedes it . |