Example sentences of "but it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There was a new Secondary there , a fine building everyone said , with playing fields and a pool and modern laboratories but it sounded , to Carrie , very ordinary and dull . |
| 32 | ’ It was n't a question but it sounded like one . |
| 33 | ‘ I forget what this Susan woman said exactly , but it sounded to me as though Chris Parker did n't like the idea at first . |
| 34 | His voice was muffled by the pillow , but it sounded to Cassie as if he were close to tears . |
| 35 | But it sounded more like Hilda alone — it was just the sort of thing to appeal to Hilda 's sense of humour . |
| 36 | What this meant was n't certain , but it sounded good at the time . |
| 37 | Behind him Hrun screamed , but it sounded more like a bellow of rage than a cry of pain . |
| 38 | ‘ Faulty gas main , ’ I said , but it sounded weak . |
| 39 | I only heard the start of the prog but it sounded like the Norwich fans had booked tickets at Leeds , went to pick them up and were told to f*** off ! |
| 40 | Dave also played the old fashioned curved soprano sax , which looks almost like a toy instrument but it sounded clear and forceful in his hands . |
| 41 | Shut up Ah but it sounded like like a Welsh name did n't it ? |
| 42 | But it sounded very |
| 43 | Jane kept talking to him , but it sounded remarkably like David |
| 44 | But it lashed into the enchanted forest with the whip of centuries . |
| 45 | The term ‘ popular culture ’ is a modern one but it describes what was a readily identifiable reality in the new urban areas of the nineteenth century . |
| 46 | This , I would argue , though not all would agree , may tell us something interesting about the way the brain compartmentalizes different aspects of visual processing and it may tell us that subjects are more conservative about admitting to seeing a very degraded image than about trying to move their eyes to it , but it sheds little light on the actual experiences the patients are having when we show them a light . |
| 47 | At seventeen she bore his daughter , but it died . |
| 48 | The wild aurochs , as big as a modern English Longhorn , was widespread in Britain while there was still a landbridge linking the land to the Continent after the retreat of the glaciers of the last Ice Age , but it died out here during the Bronze Age 3,000 years ago and it never reached Ireland . |
| 49 | ‘ Lord , dearie , I had one of my own , when Gracie was alive , but it died ; so I know all about having 'em . |
| 50 | But it died within two weeks . ’ |
| 51 | But he mounted the steps anyway , and knocked on the door to make certain : the sound was sudden and startling , but it died away quickly , with no response from within the building . |
| 52 | That did n't help the Black Destroyer , certainly , but it died because I made a mistake , and my power is so strong that when it goes wrong , which is seldom but not never , even those things I have invested with great protective power become vulnerable . |
| 53 | Well yeah , I mean there 's there 's no fast rule about having the red one but it scores you double . |
| 54 | It shares with the Justice Model a retributivist approach and a preference for proportionate , ‘ just deserts ’ punishments , but it advocates more severe fixed-term sentences . |
| 55 | Dreamily he tried to concentrate on it , to classify it , but it defied his effort . |
| 56 | This is erm a warm current , small current , but nearby there is a big excursion of warm water wells up , and we 're not very sure why , but it extends out into the Pacific . |
| 57 | It assumes no previous security experience , but it assumes a familiarity with the PC , with DOS and with the elements of LANs . |
| 58 | But it assumes a dichotomy between nature and supernature that oversimplifies the theologies of the past . |
| 59 | At its northern end it has no obvious beginning , but it assumes a recognisable course at Barton Lodge in Steeple Barton parish . |
| 60 | The expectations hypothesis may be a good starting point , but it assumes that individuals who take unhedged positions in futures markets ( i.e. speculators ) expect on average to earn only the risk-free rate . |