Example sentences of "but it [vb past] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The idea of New Towns has a long pedigree , but it received its twentieth-century fillip through the garden city movement ( Osborn and Whittick , 1963 ) .
2 But it had its positive aspects .
3 And as I said , it , it was er , it , it , it , it was , it was denigrated but it had its own strengths , and the Margaret case er , is , is one of them .
4 This was n't the Dorchester or the Ritz , but it had their ineffable air of serene affluence .
5 It was , she felt sure , a ploy on Dawn 's part , but it left her indifferent .
6 ABSEILING 130ft from maltings at Bury St Edmunds is not everyone 's ideal Saturday afternoon pastime but it suited our daring duo from the maltings , and from Export .
7 But it made her doubtful again .
8 But it made her miserable that they were not open with one another .
9 But it took her such a long while before she would sit in one of these .
10 He had no short-term memory , which made for some strange dishes but it kept her safe from him .
11 It was slow , backbreaking work , but it gave her great satisfaction .
12 But it gave its inner-city policy a new direction by stressing the role of private enterprise in economic regeneration .
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