Example sentences of "but it [verb] the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had expected to return home with full payment for the shoes she 'd made , but it seemed the theatre people were not too quick in settling bills , a practice they shared with the gentry . |
| 2 | But it keeps the gun shops happy . |
| 3 | The , they did an easy-trieve which runs every , every time they do a run they , they run and before they do a run they do an easy-trieve er identify those cases and then there 's a marker you can put on poll M to redirect , it does n't change the address but it redirects the unit statement in-house . |
| 4 | TV missed the end of Empire , except for little bits like the Argyll Highlanders ' steamy evacuation from Aden in 1967 , but it caught the Vietnam War , the Nigerian Civil War , and so much as it was permitted in the Falklands . |
| 5 | This is a caricature , to be sure , but it illustrates the attitude managers often take to the unexpected : ‘ It should not have happened . ’ |
| 6 | But it opened the prison doors and allowed Edward Hyde to escape . |
| 7 | But it averted the nightmare prospect of four consecutive defeats as they prepare to end their marathon season against Germany in Detroit next Saturday . |
| 8 | Tha that 's quite good for , for the biological stuff , it does n't really contain much sort of useful for the last three or four lectures , it does n't contain much on sort of ocean circulation and the physics , you know but it covers the biology interactions quite well . |
| 9 | Such a figure is based to some extent on notional accounting — an expert 's time per hour is , for example , assessed at a much higher rate than he or she is actually paid — but it indicates the profit margins which both houses need to maintain . |