Example sentences of "but it [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Granted , Vitor continued to blame her , but it represented some kind of progress . |
| 2 | The bus held about twenty people , but it carried all manner of other things . |
| 3 | This was a return to the test of outrage , with all its faults , but it met little outrage in Standing Committee and fell only because of the dissolution of Parliament for the 1987 General Election . |
| 4 | All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably . |
| 5 | She screamed , but it had little effect , just added to the confusion that reigned in the room . |
| 6 | All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably . |
| 7 | The famous Marx Brothers ' contract scene in A Night at the Opera ( " The party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the party of the first part " ) exaggerated the worst excesses of legal drafting , but it had some basis in fact . |
| 8 | But it had another trick up its sleeves . |
| 9 | We need to understand the position of the Sanhedrin , Jesus is really representing great changes in their tradition great a great revolution really and we know that what he was doing was was sort of getting Christianity to grow out of Judaism , but it meant that Judaism had to move to one side . |
| 10 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
| 11 | It took her longer than she had thought , but it served another purpose . |
| 12 | Throughout the first two weeks of the campaign almost twothirds of our panel cited unemployment as the ‘ main issue ’ that should be discussed but it got little coverage on television news . |
| 13 | But it omitted any reference to the dangers of ‘ Leftism ’ , despite the fact that Deng had stressed this , and that it was at the heart of a party politburo statement . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 17 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 18 | That 's right , yeah so I eventually managed it , but it took some negotiating . |
| 19 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
| 20 | And then again I tell you you could use the enema , and that er but er mostly it would you know you would get right again , but it took some doing , not easy . |
| 21 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 22 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |
| 23 | Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision . |
| 24 | But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be . |
| 25 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 26 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 27 | Engaged as consultants , Alec Issigonis and Alex Moulton half solved the problem by changing the rear suspension , but it took another outsider to put BRM on the right track . |
| 28 | They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out . |
| 29 | The organist spiritedly played Art Garfunkel 's Bright Eyes , the theme of Watership Down — her favourite book , but it brought little comfort . |
| 30 | But it stipulated that cabinet decisions should be taken by majority vote , rather than by consensus as the National Party wanted . |