Example sentences of "but it [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 but it left me with an interest in Leeds United which I 've never shaken off , nor have I ever wnated to .
2 But it got him in the end .
3 I had expected it to be cold but it surprised me with a suddenness that wrenched my breath away .
4 But it pissed me off no end when he finally decided to change over because he shut up shop while he did it , leaving me with no Saturday job and no money .
5 It seems necessary to remind de Man ( who claims that " deconstruction is not something that we have added to the text but it constituted it in the first place " ) of Todorov 's statement that de Man himself quotes in Blindness and Insight :
6 This might have been all very well for my ego but it put me in the position of a complete novice , with my boss listening critically from the platform to everything I said on his behalf .
7 For a moment Seb had forgotten his sprained ankle but it reminded him in no uncertain fashion when he tried to put his full weight on it .
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