Example sentences of "but it [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the speeds it achieves wo n't actually take it into the air … but it takes it into the record books . |
| 2 | But it does nothing of the sort . |
| 3 | At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment . |
| 4 | But it got him in the end . |
| 5 | But it says nothing about the register being evidence of ownership , and it is not clear what role , if any , it plays in converting an equitable interest to a legal one . |
| 6 | The picture was clearly in her head , but it brought none of the old bitterness , because now she was seeing Alain , imagining him , and it wiped away the old grief . |
| 7 | 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 : |
| 8 | but it tells you on the thing , it , a white thing with a line through it |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But it did nothing for the glass . |
| 11 | I do not think this experience is confined to women , but it symbolizes something of the quality of the Great Mother , and it shows how we have the ability to conceive and carry to birth on a level other than the physical . |
| 12 | Mm , so what if could erm , could come up with a policy , that you pay your premiums in , but it covers you for the whole of your life . |