Example sentences of "but it [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My boyfriend and I have been going out for six weeks and everything is wonderful but it takes me honestly two hours to reach orgasm . |
| 2 | The thought of what might happen scared her , but it thrilled her too . |
| 3 | If I could manage to absorb a tablet in between the bouts of vomiting it did stop the sickness and bring a pain-free sleep — but it left me too exhausted to do anything about enjoying life . |
| 4 | His embarrassment flattered her , because it was a sign of his bewildered love , but it irritated her even more , because it testified to his immaturity ; going with a boy the same age seemed like lowering oneself : she was only interested in older boys . |
| 5 | He knew the British government had their own sugar and sisal companies here , of course , but it irked his militarily trained mind that they would n't go through proper channels . |
| 6 | On my last day there I was literally pushed out of a small news agent 's shop by a pair of youths for requesting a box of matches in English rather than in French ; I even tried my one and only French joke on them and said ‘ Quel fromage ! ’ but it got me nowhere — but out ! |
| 7 | He found it almost repulsive to think of it in there , kicking at the walls ; but it roused him sexually as well . |
| 8 | But it struck me then how very wise he was to keep his sexy side so firmly battened down on duty . |
| 9 | A letter card came from France , but it told them little except that he was well and a letter followed . |
| 10 | Heaven knows I 've tried talking to him , but it gets me nowhere . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But it made him only the second Briton to conquer Everest without Oxygen equipment . |
| 13 | But it took him almost five hours and contained just four fours . |
| 14 | But it took him almost five hours and contained just four fours . |
| 15 | Of course I called her Mum , but it took me quite a little while to accept her as my mother . |
| 16 | The idea excites me but it scares me too , ’ she confesses . |
| 17 | Mozart returned briefly to Leipzig to give another concert , at which he played the Piano Concerto in B flat , K.456 , but it brought him little return . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd never have expected him to be as supportive as he was , ’ says Sean , ‘ but it brought us closer together . |
| 19 | ‘ Luckily it was n't malignant but it affected me mentally and emotionally and I was a bit of a mess . |
| 20 | But it tells you more about the personal horrors of living under apartheid than many a flashier epic . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This may be true at the population genetic level , but it tells us absolutely nothing about the developmental complexity of the process itself . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It made him feel afraid but it excited him too . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , but it suits me perfectly , Luke , ’ she disabused him of the conceit with a blistering smile . |
| 26 | I destroyed the parasite but it wounded me badly . |
| 27 | ‘ I would like to believe that , Sir John , but it strikes me as false . ’ |
| 28 | That 's true of every passing year , but it strikes you more powerfully when you reach a nice , round watershed number . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I can not paint it as beautifully as that , but it absorbs me so much that I let myself go , never thinking of a single rule … |