Example sentences of "but [adv] it [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | It is sometimes quite incredible the kind of information people expect the reception desk to supply , but generally it takes the form of questions about train , bus and taxi services , which means up-to-date timetables and the telephone numbers of the local taxi services must be to hand . |
| 3 | I would n't want to hear it every night , but tonight it took the breath away with its doomed glamour . |
| 4 | There is no English equivalent to the French basis of this concept , but broadly it denotes the fact that institutional church religion has been pushed by modernity out of the centre of social and cultural life and into its own peripheral and private sphere . |
| 5 | But still it serves the purpose do n't it . |
| 6 | Not only will this worsen the symptoms of ‘ jet-lag ’ and any problems associated with shift-work but also it impairs the effectiveness of many systems which are responsible for controlling the body . |
| 7 | A The fungus that affects fish is present in all ponds , but often it requires the skin of the fish to be damaged in some way to allow the fungus to grow on the body of the fish . |
| 8 | But now it seems the kids are into stuff like ours . |
| 9 | It 's an illness we do n't know much about , but sometimes it affects the muscles of a leg or an arm . |
| 10 | For perhaps one second it remained a river bank , but then it became the shingle and sand beach fifty yards from my childhood home . |
| 11 | The pause had steadied her for a while but then it enabled the gnawing to chew on her once more . |
| 12 | There 's nothing wrong , you know , but again it seems the nomination of people . |
| 13 | Not a great flaw , but insistently it troubled the eyes of guests coming new to his acquaintance . |
| 14 | But secondly it highlights the fact that women are entitled to the freedom to engage with and be part of all the creative , nurturing processes with which we organize human reality . |