Example sentences of "but [verb] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod . |
| 2 | The planned and formulaic rationality of the Enlightenment , according to the critique , is increasingly marked by the familiar , the conventional and by ‘ sameness ’ : a sameness which need not exclude difference , but contains it within the rational , functional and acceptable forms of its own choosing . |
| 3 | Brussels had a river but buried it in the 19th century when it began to stink . |
| 4 | Commodore 's CDTV also benefits from an association with CD-A but approaches it from the other direction . |
| 5 | It looks as though there lies behind D a chronicle which received additions in Christ Church Canterbury , and at least one of those additions , on Æthelnoth 's journey to Rome , was possibly present in a version which reached St Augustine 's , where it was copied in a slightly modified form into the predecessor of E. St Augustine 's may also have received the 1023 entry in D , but abbreviated it to the single sentence which E now contains . |
| 6 | But mixing it with the hard men of football is no problem for a kid brought up the hard way on the mean streets of Leicester . |
| 7 | Graziano , 68 , won the world title in 1947 with a sixth-round knock-out of Tony Zale but lost it to the same fighter less than a year later . |
| 8 | Women prisoners in Armagh had political status until 1975 but lost it in the following year and the numbers in Armagh rose dramatically during the late seventies . |
| 9 | Apparently , the process conditions promote deposition of the enclosed material in the larger cavity , but prohibit it in the smaller . |
| 10 | ‘ But shoot it in the right direction , you 're making it your intention/Live those dreams , scheme those schemes . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But shoot it in the right direction , you 're making it your intention/Live those dreams , scheme those schemes . ’ |
| 12 | How to keep doing what one enjoyed doing as a child but adapting it to the changing circumstances . |
| 13 | Sorry to be so vague , darling , but blame it on the unreliable British climate . |