Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | only other one he 's got is a silk one so er I was gon na go on Tuesday and have a look and they had them there before Christmas , seven ninety nine and , but it said one size now I do n't know whether the one size will fit Di because the last one I had for him I sent away for and I had erm so I do n't know whether them down there would fit , they were seven ninety nine , there were white and lemon and pale green that was striped I think . |
| 2 | But it had another trick up its sleeves . |
| 3 | Duales System Deutschland ( DSD ) , the organization set up by industry to comply with a law requiring manufacturers to recycle packaging , has succeeded in dealing with paper , aliminium and glass , but it collected four times more plastic rubbish than it could cope with . |
| 4 | Brittle Power may be written for American readers ; but it deserves careful perusal everywhere . |
| 5 | All fish that actually have a swimbladder , are prone to this disorder , but it seems some species particularly the fancy varieties of ornamental fish are especially at risk , in particular goldfish . |
| 6 | The usual or primary use of this word is to put clothes on yourself ( or somebody else ) , but it has other uses too , such as to dress poultry , to dress timber , to dress a window . |
| 7 | The equivalent of selling snow to eskimos must be the British selling ski slopes to the Swedish , but it happened two months ago at Ullna outside Stockholm . |