Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | It cost seven guineas but I think it was worth it . |
| 2 | He said , ‘ It happened this morning but there was no one to send till I came home from school . ’ |
| 3 | It took several minutes but they finally boarded the train , fought their way down the corridor and collapsed into the relative calm of a first-class carriage . |
| 4 | It had Breton blood but , like the Breton , was heavily crossed with the Friesian and became extinct by the 1960s . |
| 5 | Stirling Moss remarked that it had six gears but needed 16 , from which you can gather that it was a bit on the peaky side . |
| 6 | On the other hand , there were those feminists represented by Josephine Butler who believed that prostitution was evil because it destroyed human dignity but who also believed the prostitute had a right not to be harassed , and if she was an adult she even had a right to choose to become a prostitute . |