Example sentences of "but it [verb] us [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's especially interesting because our vocalist is female and black , which not only avoids the Tin Machine comparisons , but it gets us away from the whole rock'n'roll boy 's club scenario . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd never have expected him to be as supportive as he was , ’ says Sean , ‘ but it brought us closer together . |
| 3 | Section 2(1) does not change the meaning of appropriation but it tells us when appropriation is not to be regarded as dishonest ( and so does not amount to stealing ) . |
| 4 | The free volume theory deals with the need for space to be available before co-operative motion , characteristic of the glass transition , can be initiated , but it tells us little about the molecular motion itself . |
| 5 | This may be true at the population genetic level , but it tells us absolutely nothing about the developmental complexity of the process itself . |
| 6 | But it tells us too little of the horses and the mules and the packs he used ; it tells us nothing of his carts and his boats ; and this is an area of scholarship curiously underdeveloped . |
| 7 | I mean it may well be that we have in this country we have erm pretty much Mill 's system because MPs get paid relatively little bearing in mind what most of them could be getting elsewhere , so maybe we 've got something like Mill 's system but it strikes us as rather a bizarre suggestion that MPs should n't be paid to prevent adventurous and lower classes becoming MPs . |
| 8 | It was hot and the demonstration went on much too long , but it gave us all some idea of how caring the teachers were and it was a practical illustration of what the school was trying to do . |
| 9 | Knowing an author 's homosexuality makes that decoding far easier ( if at the same time rather less triumphant there 's an undeniable pleasure in finding out that a favourite writer , actor or director you have admired for years turns out to be gay , as you always privately hoped and ‘ knew ’ ) but it returns us once again to the problem of biography , the danger of regressing to a simplistic reading of texts which simply locates their meanings in the author 's life story . |