Example sentences of "but it [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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31 | There had already been examples in the fifties , notably Delmer Daves 's Broken Arrow , Robert Aldrich 's Apache and Sam Fuller 's Run of the Arrow , but it began a new trend in which the Western was appropriated by directors in order to express their liberal views . |
32 | The Council was merely an umbrella organization for a large and expanding number of countryside and amenity organizations , but it became an invaluable integrator , particularly on the issue of National Parks when it set up its own Standing Committee . |
33 | She thought it a mite expensive , but it looked a respectable place , and Mrs Taylor had been sympathetic about Grandfather . |
34 | We were then too high for much detail , but it looked a general melee back where Mala had been . |
35 | Apple Computer Inc has always jealously guarded its Macintosh environment , but it made a striking gesture when it allowed IBM to build machines that would run the PowerPC version of Macintosh System when the chip is ready . |
36 | I do n't know what animal it was , but it made a good meal . |
37 | ‘ I only had a couple of hours with him , but it made a tremendous difference . |
38 | ‘ But it made a difficult situation impossible , caused distress to her and her husband and sounded the death knell on the marriage which until then , although in difficulties , neither of them had given up hope of saving . ’ |
39 | The above may be so , but it took a long while for anything significant to happen to the share price . |
40 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
41 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
42 | ‘ The device looks simple , but it took a long time to find companies that could make it , ’ he says . |
43 | The blaze commenced one lunchtime when few people were in the premises , so there was no loss of life , but it took a long time for the blaze to be brought under control and some days before the firemen were able to be sure that there was no risk of further outbreaks of fire . |
44 | The old lady was quite sprightly for her age but it took a long time for them both to reach the top floor . |
45 | I got a job eventually , but it took a long time . |
46 | For example , a reduction in the cost of grinding and polishing plate glass was made possible by the float process , but it took a long time and a great deal of money to make it work . |
47 | We got away with it somehow , but it took a long time to live that one down . |
48 | she was one of the first anyway , so er , but it took a long time before she had them , five years ' wait , and she said , that , at the last attempt she said to her husband that 's it now , if it does n't work this time , that 's it , I 'm not having any more attempts , that 's it definitely , and they had that successfully and that 's how they had the twins , so they 're her children , they are their children , it 's just they were fertilized outside the womb , in a glass dish it 's fascinating i n't it ? she said it 's really fascinating I can assure you I said oh I can see |
49 | Do n't ask me how I kept going for so long , but it took a superhuman effort . |
50 | Everyone knew that the rules were being stretched , but it took a skilled operator to persuade an official to ignore evidence that was blatantly paraded before him . |
51 | I 'm sorry we could n't do it the day you arrived , but it took a little bit of organizing . " |
52 | But it took a trained observer to follow her through the quicksands of her disapprobation ; a false step on the part of one of the aunts , for instance , could have reversed her attitude , and led her into a eulogy of black , into a martyred position whence the garments of all the others were an insult to her lone and exclusive widowhood , into a position where she alone had the right to flout the weight of tradition . |
53 | Gradually , the Services backs began to gel , but it took a fine individual try by Hull to reduce the deficit . |
54 | But it took a hard head to be so . |
55 | He was a suspect at the time , but it took a scientific breakthrough ten years later , to convict him — a DNA profile test which was pioneered by Cellmark Diagnostics in Abingdon in Oxfordshire : |
56 | Today the family has new hope , but it took an eight week jail term and the care of the prison 's medical officer to have Andrew admitted for treatment |
57 | The question was innocent but it brought a great guffaw from the youth and he answered , ‘ Ben Smith , Jones , or Robinson . ’ |
58 | I do n't think there was anything serious , but it caused a certain amount of amusement in the Lab . |
59 | But it caused a national outrage . |
60 | The ball never seemed to run quite right — Wallace ( I think ) looked to have through ball on the keeper at one point , but it landed a crucial half yard in the keeper 's favour . |