Example sentences of "but it [vb past] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was entirely true , but it sounded very limp as I said it and my voice just tailed away . |
| 2 | But it seemed reasonably safe . |
| 3 | It was over a year ago but it seemed even longer . |
| 4 | Goodness only knew what this particular one was , toiling down towards the crack behind the sink , but it seemed profoundly satisfactory that it should have the dignity of documentation . |
| 5 | It was only a few miles away but it seemed unimaginably distant . |
| 6 | She was used enough to being left behind while Gloria went off , but it seemed more dangerous to do it the other way around , for her to leave Gloria behind . |
| 7 | But it seemed more primitive , less articulate than that . |
| 8 | ‘ I knew you were n't going to believe me , but it seemed only fair that you should know why I agreed to marry you . ’ |
| 9 | But it seemed very small , much smaller and more fragile than the night before , as it swayed from side to side in the bright sunlight . |
| 10 | Yes , but it seemed so odd that the door was standing open . |
| 11 | Celia supposed that she would now have to say something about why she did n't want a child , but it seemed so difficult to put into words . |
| 12 | Auguste agreed bleakly , but it seemed so unlikely . |
| 13 | She estimated that its body was about twice the size of the shuttle , but it seemed much larger because of the mottled membranes that extended like wings on both sides of the creature , and rippled lazily as it swam through space . |
| 14 | It was less than seventy-two hours since he had heard of the finding of Riddle 's clothes , but it seemed much longer . |
| 15 | Her mother , on the other hand , had been told her address the night before — but it seemed highly unlikely that Mrs Agathangelou would have splashed out on such an opulent bouquet to welcome her daughter to London . |
| 16 | Scarlet had just thrown away a bunch of dried Proveņcal flowers which had adorned her sideboard for over a year and was already feeling slightly better : she thought that if only she could rearrange all the furniture , she might be cured , but it seemed too drastic a step to take . |
| 17 | At first he thought it was some kind of a St Christopher medal , but it seemed too thick . |
| 18 | There was a faint cry of ‘ And whose fault is that ? ’ but it went largely unremarked . |
| 19 | The ploy used to succeed for Jonathan Davies but it went horribly wrong for Parry , whose kick rebounded off Boobyer , leaving Proctor , the Llanelli left wing , to collect and score in the corner . |
| 20 | But it went horribly wrong and ruined his hopes of finishing anywhere better than third . |
| 21 | It is perhaps understandable why these men , who earn their livelihood in the very embrace of the Goddess of the South Seas , should take her so seriously , but it came as more of a surprise that the Sultan of Surakarta should do the same . |
| 22 | But it came very close to affecting lay rights and particularly , of course , rights of succession and inheritance of land . |
| 23 | A decision to contest a parliamentary seat ‘ if a favourable opportunity should occur ’ and to grant £250 as expenses was taken in October , but it came too late ( SCS Quarterly report 28 October 18 ) . |
| 24 | But it came too late for him to do anything about it , for when he straightened up and turned towards the bank the bullet hit him in the chest and his body seemed to disintegrate and fly in all directions , and he knew that death was on him and that it was something that divided you into a million parts and each fragment screamed as it flung itself into eternity . |
| 25 | ‘ And Titch , bless his heart , but it came too late for them . ’ |
| 26 | In retrospect it was courageous legislation but it had curiously little bite . |
| 27 | Expenditure in the various colleges varied tremendously : in Nottingham Institute ( admittedly non-residential ) it was £30 on each of its 60 students ; Western College in Plymouth spent £136 but it had only fourteen students . |
| 28 | ( The very lowest PTR of any English LEA was in the Isles of Scilly , but it had under 300 pupils in total ) ( CIPFA , 1989 ) . |
| 29 | Freedom from the restraining hand of a squire or a parson no doubt encouraged enterprise but it meant that much activity went unrecorded . |
| 30 | It looks rather splendid , but it attracted so much attention that after two days she took it all out . |