Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sound quality suffers without a sound card , but it turns up in the unlikeliest places . |
| 2 | This is erm a warm current , small current , but nearby there is a big excursion of warm water wells up , and we 're not very sure why , but it extends out into the Pacific . |
| 3 | Huntington remained with the Esmondes until 1760 , when it was sold to the Bishop of Limerick ; but it came back into the family when it was bought in 1780 by Alexander Durdin , a Protestant , whose son Richard married Frances Esmonde . |
| 4 | For how many years have we been told it 's tax payers ' money do you remember Maggie and the tax payers ' money , it 's like this animal somewhere called the tax payer but it came out of the wall as if we were n't one of them and that we had to look after the tax payers ' money . |
| 5 | He came out with a fantastic shot , but it screwed off to the right of the green , and went down oft the mound instead of falling in towards the flag . |
| 6 | But it seems out of the question for everybody to climb up there tonight . |
| 7 | But it pulled out across the path of the Volvo truck , carrying nine tonnes of road stone . |
| 8 | But it comes back to the point of how much tempo passes in the one phrase . |
| 9 | In retrospect , wrote Ali in Street Fighting Years , ‘ it was not so bad as we thought ’ , but it ended up in the incinerator , rather than on the streets . |
| 10 | But it paid off in the end ; here was the pretty little Girl-Human walking over to talk to them , smiling up at them — Inchbad always noticed the fair , smooth skins of humans , whereas giantesses were apt to be a bit coarse and occasionally had incipient beards . |
| 11 | His vivid persona might have been contrived , but it chimed in with the national mood . |
| 12 | The underground press survived on female labour , but it remained out of the limelight ; the Sue Smalls , Caroline McKechnies , ‘ Hamburger Sues ’ , Madeleine Neesons , Louise Ferriers , Marsha Rowes ; and on the Black Dwarf Sheila Rowbotham and Anne Scott , who , at 17 , was secretary , organizer , and dogsbody . |
| 13 | But it lives on in the poems we wrote together , and in the poems I wrote myself in Salamanca and Bath . |