Example sentences of "but [vb base] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea is to buy a stick , then drop it ; not throw it mind , but drop it on one side of the bridge and hope it beats the others past the finishing line . |
| 2 | Here we find songs which use the thirty-two-bar form but fill it with angular melody and tonally shifting harmony ( ‘ All the Things You Are ’ ; ‘ Body and Soul ’ ) or with polyrhythms ( ‘ Fascinatin' Rhythm ’ ) ; we find , too , a song like George Gershwin 's ‘ A Foggy Day ’ , which does not use a standard form , boasts a tune consisting almost entirely of leaps , rather than innocuous conjunct motion , and is structured with such motivic tightness as to be almost serial in method ( see Ex. 6.3 , p. 184 below ) . |
| 3 | Move away to avoid flying directly over the field , but keep it within easy reach all the time . |
| 4 | Thus index sequential files , even when processed by key , do not eliminate sequential processing , but limit it to one block . |
| 5 | Do n't shout too hard for money , but leave it at that . |
| 6 | So I would say , Have a go but leave it till last , when you when you 've done everything else and maybe you when you 've just checked through to see if the others are okay . |
| 7 | Rather than just putting these numbers into your I mean you will put these numbers into your calculator , but do it with that , leave leave your C R out of it and just keep it as T. |
| 8 | The present road and I do n't want to get into the detail of it but relate it to environmental costs against the so called benefits , would in fact cut right through there with a viaduct and it would actually start of on something like a twenty seven foot emba er a twenty seven foot high embankment and with a fifty four deep cutting . |
| 9 | You can get a like , a similar one to this , perhaps not as good as this one but buy it for twenty quid nearly . |
| 10 | This has led to researchers making a distinction between central and peripheral information in a scene and the assumption that arousal will impair memory for peripheral details but improve it for central ones ( see particularly Christianson , in press ) . |