Example sentences of "but it make [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth never felt that she was good at it , but it made a change , and she enjoyed listening to her mistress 's accounts of her days . |
| 2 | This proved nothing in itself , but it made a mockery of the Commission 's repeated claims to be particularly scientific in its approach . |
| 3 | It would n't have made any difference to my daughter 's well being , but it made a hell of a difference to her erm her social standing . |
| 4 | Fortunately it did n't go off , but it made a hell of a mess , and I came down in a shell-hole just outside our wire . ’ |
| 5 | In 1812 a model of this was sent to the Society of Arts by Hugh , Earl Percy ( later third Duke of Northumberland , q.v. ) , but it made no award of its reaping-machine premium as the invention was ‘ incomplete ’ without proper trials . |
| 6 | We hid but it made no difference , they still found us . |
| 7 | Now White was fit — but it made no difference . |
| 8 | Knee-high to a gnat but it made no difference . |
| 9 | Rain caused delays at Lord 's so that the match had to be carried over till Sunday , but it made no difference to Richards . |
| 10 | Well , I did find that , and the love of bad men , too , but it made no difference . |
| 11 | But it made no difference . |
| 12 | But it made no difference . |
| 13 | But it made no difference . |
| 14 | Some members of the of the committee did not approve , but it made no difference to Stuart ; obstinacy was part of his character . |
| 15 | Eventually Ryan appeased Neath by choosing more of their players but it made no difference : whatever kind of front five was chosen , static or mobile , Wales were beaten , and then when rugby league lucre had begun to attract an increasing number of his better players Ryan gave up the unequal struggle after the devastating defeat at Twickenham in 1990 . |
| 16 | My dealer suggested I treat them for gill flukes , so I did this on two occasions but it made no difference . |
| 17 | I was given a good hiding , which I deserved , but it made no difference . |
| 18 | Completely innocent they were , too , but it made no difference . |
| 19 | They could see their pals being shot down in front of them but it made no difference . |
| 20 | ‘ Hey , Gary , ’ she said , but it made no difference . |
| 21 | I had even made up a 19 foot rod with an astronomical test curve and weighing a ton but it made no difference ! |
| 22 | But it made no difference . |
| 23 | She was calling herself all the names under the sun , but it made no difference . |
| 24 | She made a valiant bid to shrug away from him , but it made no difference . |
| 25 | But it made no mention of a halt to the mainland bombing campaign . |
| 26 | The new electoral law was passed but it made no mention of the role of opposition groups , merely stating that elections would take place within the framework of socialism , thus effectively barring non-socialist candidates . |
| 27 | He stopped speaking for a moment , like a man walking who comes to a brink ; perhaps it was an artful pause , but it made the stars , the night , seem to wait , as if story , narration , history , lay imbricated in the nature of things ; and the cosmos was for the story , not the story for the cosmos . |
| 28 | But it made the patients very sick , and the remissions did not last . |
| 29 | But it made the mystery even deeper . |
| 30 | But it made the situation no easier because Churchill distrusted Temple as a sort of Socialist and as too outspoken a politician . |