Example sentences of "but it [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His embarrassment flattered her , because it was a sign of his bewildered love , but it irritated her even more , because it testified to his immaturity ; going with a boy the same age seemed like lowering oneself : she was only interested in older boys . |
| 2 | But it struck me then how very wise he was to keep his sexy side so firmly battened down on duty . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd never have expected him to be as supportive as he was , ’ says Sean , ‘ but it brought us closer together . |
| 4 | That 's true of every passing year , but it strikes you more powerfully when you reach a nice , round watershed number . |
| 5 | I mean it may well be that we have in this country we have erm pretty much Mill 's system because MPs get paid relatively little bearing in mind what most of them could be getting elsewhere , so maybe we 've got something like Mill 's system but it strikes us as rather a bizarre suggestion that MPs should n't be paid to prevent adventurous and lower classes becoming MPs . |
| 6 | It was a pretty worn dark grey one , but it fit him all right . |
| 7 | ‘ If there 's no wind it 's a fine day ! ’ is a Shetland expression , and to me it is especially relevant because not only does it affect the movements of birds and animals , but it makes them so much easier to see on the water . |
| 8 | Knowing an author 's homosexuality makes that decoding far easier ( if at the same time rather less triumphant there 's an undeniable pleasure in finding out that a favourite writer , actor or director you have admired for years turns out to be gay , as you always privately hoped and ‘ knew ’ ) but it returns us once again to the problem of biography , the danger of regressing to a simplistic reading of texts which simply locates their meanings in the author 's life story . |