Example sentences of "but it [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I wake up , I know summat 's up when I open my eyes and see it 's all bright , but it takes me a minute to remember where I am . |
| 2 | As a result he was suspended for two years , which of course delayed his entry into first-class cricket ; but it taught him a lot . |
| 3 | But it does please me that we fight back , I like that , but it displeases me the way we sort of go under a little bit . |
| 4 | But it made it a very anxious first night for me , and before the curtain went up , as I sat in my dressing-room in make-up and costume ready to go on stage , Guthrie , who 'd been really very sympathetic if not totally convinced all along , came in , patted me on the shoulder and said , " Whatever happens , dear , we were right to do it . " |
| 5 | It took them I ca n't remember how many hours but it took them a long time . |
| 6 | Einstein proposed a simple relationship but it took him a number of years to identify the precise form of the curvature tensor involved . |
| 7 | I knew I made a mistake , marrying young , but it took me a while to work out what was wrong . |
| 8 | ‘ We saw each other around quite a lot but it took me a while to warm up . |
| 9 | I was on to the exchange for your name and number as soon as the news came through , but it took me an hour and a half to bully someone into looking up where the phone-box was . |
| 10 | Within about ten days she was happy enough with my mother and sisters around , but it took her a lot longer to settle down with other people , and with animals . |
| 11 | But it took us a long time to actually get to that stage because er , the police are at fault , the police launch these schemes and they go away and say get on with it and off we go |
| 12 | ‘ But it gives them a fighting chance . |
| 13 | No it does n't , but it gives them the means to promote it . |
| 14 | In view of the fact that I am walking this is somewhat academic , but it gives us a point of contact . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's a dangerous game , but it gives us a chance of winning . ’ |
| 16 | But it gives us an advantage . |
| 17 | It would n't convict our man , but it gives us an excuse to go and pay a call on the Putts of Swinbrook Manor . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ When I came out again my weight had gone down to 8 stone and it 's definitely an experience I would n't like to go through again , but it gives you a new outlook on life . |
| 19 | You do n't really need to , but it 's , there usually is n't time to cover it , cos you 've got other things , but it gives you a much better feel for it if you , if you see the other side of the picture all the time . |
| 20 | Now correlation , in a similar way , measures something similar to association but it gives you a bit more detail . |
| 21 | They use the idea for designing the interiors of buildings and so on ; essentially it 's a toy in its current form , but it gives you the idea . |
| 22 | But it gives you the peace of mind to know that , if the worst should happen , you could cope with the situation . |
| 23 | That 's a bit extreme but it gives you the idea . |
| 24 | I gather that in general ditches are the responsibility of Southern Water and then in some point it 'll change in but er there are areas in the county er and upon this appears to be one where the ditches adjacent to the highway are the responsibility of the , the Highway Authority , that is the County Surveyor , but it gives you an example of an area in which we responsibility of the public er find it difficult |
| 25 | His dream of covering whole counties with a giant speaking-tube may be grotesque in itself , but it makes him a remote ancestor of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell . |
| 26 | But it gave her a clear view into the houses backing on to the tracks , the private mess usually tidied out of sight , the outside lavatories with unhinged doors , the laundry racks flimsy as the skeleton of a bird 's wing , with trousers and underwear like broken feathers hanging ; a burst , sodden mattress . |
| 27 | But it gave her a patina of respectability , and , as far as I know , only my father knew the truth , because she told him . |
| 28 | It hardly made him a frequent visitor , but it gave him a few numbers to ring . |
| 29 | He drank heavily , but it gave him no elation , merely intensified his mood . |
| 30 | But it gave him no comfort . |