Example sentences of "it but [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world of shadow is the condition of human knowledge , and imagination deals in the meanings inherent in it but points to the light beyond where it will no longer be of use : |
| 2 | On one level it is yet another accident , and on a second level it is inevitable , it must be so because it belongs here and nowhere else , as the foreign restaurant bill belongs to a novel about human birds of passage , and as the whistle belongs to a novel , in fact the only late Dostoevsky novel , with no children in it but haunted by the toys of absent innocence and peace : the governor of ‘ our province ’ where these crazy terrible events take place was disappointed in love as a young man and consoled himself by making a paper theatre with curtains , actors , audience , orchestra , conductor — the lot . |
| 3 | Cautiously she admitted it but said in the same breath that it was of no consequence because her father had died for political reasons . |
| 4 | For example , on high policy common opinion said that there was nothing for it but to stay in the ERM . |
| 5 | Erm I was n't , I did n't know what you were trying to get at when you were bringing up the miles per annum that he was doing , I can understand the flying side of it but driving in the car , yes you need to know that he 's doing a lot of miles and that there 's , you know , the there 's the potential danger and everything there but I did n't understand why you need his specific miles per annum . |