Example sentences of "but it [verb] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dave also played the old fashioned curved soprano sax , which looks almost like a toy instrument but it sounded clear and forceful in his hands . |
| 2 | in Southampton and he said we can give you next day this , they wo n't , they wo n't enter into it , we can give you next day delivery but it takes ten or twenty days . |
| 3 | ‘ But it went berserk and , you 'll not believe us , but the car brought us here . ’ |
| 4 | To reduce the nitrate , we bought lots of Caulerpa , but it went white and died . |
| 5 | Teenage pregnancy is not a new phenomenon but it remains controversial and attracts disproportionate and misleading media attention . |
| 6 | ‘ But it got louder and louder until I recognised it as Benny Hill 's voice . |
| 7 | Her head did not precisely ache , but it felt hollow and somehow precarious ; and she found it hard to make her muscles work so that she felt as though she might trip over her own feet or walk into the furniture . |
| 8 | But it felt safe and familiar as it always did , with the sounds of chewing and the smell of sweat and cow-dung and half-eaten hay . |
| 9 | It was an illusion , he knew that , but it looked real and solid . |
| 10 | I did n't personally think having a piano on the back of a truck was much use either , but it looked good and gave the band somewhere to balance their beer cans . |
| 11 | He could n't tell if it was leather or canvas webbing , but it looked broad and strong . |
| 12 | We did use black paper , but it looked terrible and attracted graffiti , so then we thought of fine art . |
| 13 | want to marry her , but it gets funnier and funnier . |
| 14 | As early as 1872 , he was proposing the formation of a national body for deaf people , but it took long and persistent efforts on his part before the National Deaf and Dumb Society was founded in 1879 . |
| 15 | The restaging generally has less bite and less fluency than Hall 's original — Susanna 's humour is more truly peasant-like — but it feels warmer and more sympathetic . |
| 16 | But it stayed alight and soon began to burn merrily . |
| 17 | Now its skin is soft and it must hide , but it grows fast and swells its body by absorbing water and stretching out the wrinkles of its new carapace . |
| 18 | But it stops short and the other one overlaps it . |
| 19 | As the companies grew they came to regard exporting as being essential , but it proved difficult and expensive to unwind hastily entered-into agency agreements . |
| 20 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 21 | But it remained unpublished and is as yet unfinished . |
| 22 | Normally , you could have filmed a sequence where he was running , then stopped to speak , in one go , but it involved six or seven ‘ cuts ’ . |
| 23 | A tan acquired slowly not only looks nicer and more natural , but it lasts longer and rarely peels . |