Example sentences of "but it [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of New Towns has a long pedigree , but it received its twentieth-century fillip through the garden city movement ( Osborn and Whittick , 1963 ) . |
| 2 | This was n't the Dorchester or the Ritz , but it had their ineffable air of serene affluence . |
| 3 | ABSEILING 130ft from maltings at Bury St Edmunds is not everyone 's ideal Saturday afternoon pastime but it suited our daring duo from the maltings , and from Export . |
| 4 | We 're talking about half an ounce , which does n't exactly sound like a weight problem , but it took me another day or so to take it off her . |
| 5 | These have now been cleaned up , but it took us some time to cope with this disgraceful state of affairs … the condition of these children , and the behaviour of many of the mothers , has completely dissipated the goodwill and welcome accorded to them by the Welsh people , whose hospitality is proverbial . |
| 6 | But it hit me one day , he did n't care or he would have made that effort to come and see me and he did n't . |
| 7 | It was only a momentary lapse on his part , but it gave her enough time to whirl round on him , her eyes widening as she spotted a revolver in his hand . |
| 8 | Mind you , it was partly her fault ; they could afford to live without her factory work , but it gave her some company and a feeling of contributing to society . |
| 9 | But it gave her another flare of confidence , this elusive and somehow warming reminder of her childhood . |
| 10 | It was slow , backbreaking work , but it gave her great satisfaction . |
| 11 | Through that , Red Rhino came up with a matching deal which was not very high in terms of money or anything but it gave them some status , certainly with promotion . |
| 12 | But it gave its inner-city policy a new direction by stressing the role of private enterprise in economic regeneration . |