Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah , but it came back the other day did n't it ? |
| 2 | Call Me Old Fashioned , I thought was a good title , and A Licence to Print Money would have been another good title for a bestseller , but it had rather a rapacious sound do n't you think ? |
| 3 | Such a widening of perspectives obviously leaves no place for the by now out-dated claim concerning the objective nature of linguistic analysis , but it opens up a whole range of stimulating opportunities for the exploration of the ways texts function in society . |
| 4 | The scream cam from quite a way away , but it penetrated easily the thick walls of the study . |
| 5 | But it took on an extra role during the Gulf War , when it was flown in tandem with Tornados . |
| 6 | This hospital was apparently established in Knightsbridge in 1778 , but it survived only a short while , Snape having been left in the lurch by noblemen who promised financial support . |
| 7 | The vicar also held the chaplaincy of the deserted hamlet of Horn in plurality , but it yielded only a trifling 13s. 4d. , and he seems to have had no other benefice . |
| 8 | A better example is on a small sherd from Colchester but it includes only a single head , in full face view with tentacles like a radiate crown , supported on a thin writhing neck ( fig. 14.32 ) . |
| 9 | There is an element of bravado here — having conquered the academic and " literary " worlds , he wanted to move on — but it suggests also the extraordinary and self-conscious determination with which he worked . |
| 10 | IT IS an old joke , but it sums up the present mood in Australia . |