Example sentences of "but it [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house had not the vistas or the parkland of Auckland Castle , and its chapel could hardly compete with the chapel at Auckland , but it had good walks along the Ouse . |
| 2 | that no other government was fitted to the war effort , but it had significant undertones : coalition was especially useful in providing the party with allies more able to secure the cooperation of the working class . |
| 3 | But it had obvious difficulties for many students who found they could not manage both love affairs and study . |
| 4 | But it had 22 frets , big frets , and really loud humbuckers and that was why I liked it . |
| 5 | That was all very well , but it left big questions of detail in how the mixed economy was to be run . |
| 6 | The Second World War added no territory to the Empire , but it left British troops in occupation of the Italian empire in Africa , and the Dutch and French empires in the Far East . |
| 7 | But it attracted anti-war campaigners who say the book is trying to sanitise the real cost of the war ; thousands of lives lost . |
| 8 | The Committee even considered the possibility that the occupant of the Chair be given a cut-off button or that other devices be employed to override demonstrations or disturbance in the galleries or on the floor of the House , but it rejected such innovations . |
| 9 | Duales System Deutschland ( DSD ) , the organization set up by industry to comply with a law requiring manufacturers to recycle packaging , has succeeded in dealing with paper , aliminium and glass , but it collected four times more plastic rubbish than it could cope with . |
| 10 | And he said er ten pound were n't it , but it made four joints , yeah |
| 11 | So when Fleischmann and Pons announced test-tube fusion as a source of energy — which was the ‘ angle ’ that the media took up and portrayed it as a clean source — the news that they apparently saw tritium as a fusion product was lost on most media , but it made many scientists concerned and others excited . |
| 12 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
| 13 | But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed . |
| 14 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
| 15 | The stripes were hardly noticeable , as the cut was left longer here , but it took slight bumps in the ground in its stride , and cut well up to edges . |
| 16 | At Lord 's , Fowler and Lloyd and Gower again made some runs , but it took thirty Extras to help their total to 196 . |
| 17 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 18 | But it took 5 months to find them accomodation after she was told to … |
| 19 | A wizened butler opened the door to Topaz , but it took five minutes of heated argument before she was allowed to step over the threshold of Stone Towers . |
| 20 | but it took five years |
| 21 | The incident last weekend happened just a few hundred yards from Bishop Auckland ambulance station , but it took 25 minutes for a vehicle to arrive from Durham City 12 miles away . |
| 22 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |
| 23 | They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out . |
| 24 | To a large degree this was centred , although not confined , to the newer , suburban churches , but it affected all aspects of Nonconformist church-life . |
| 25 | In many ways the movement was a distant bogey but it worried many landowners whose rent rolls were hit by the heavy load of poor rates , now a quarterly impost almost everywhere . |
| 26 | The church was not in permanent use and had no resident vicar but it held occasional services and now at Christmas an elderly cleric in retirement had volunteered to conduct a sung Eucharist at nine-thirty with the help of a volunteer choir assembled from the Women 's Institute . |
| 27 | erm , but it cost seven pounds for me and mum |
| 28 | It also printed the term as ‘ war ’ rather than war , but it gave close observers a full and accurate description of the weapons on both sides . |
| 29 | The equivalent of selling snow to eskimos must be the British selling ski slopes to the Swedish , but it happened two months ago at Ullna outside Stockholm . |
| 30 | But it included two innovations : condoms were to be distributed to those adolescents who requested them , and homosexuals were to be included in the list of cultural minorities to be studied and appreciated . |