Example sentences of "but [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Changes of stream course can sometimes be inferred where a meandering parish boundary leaves the present stream it is following but rejoins it further along its course . |
| 2 | He granted an injunction restraining the defendant from using and/or disclosing confidential information but qualified it so that it did not apply to communications made by the defendant either to FIMBRA or the Inland Revenue in respect of the matters identified in the defence . |
| 3 | He really scents the difficulty but thinks it too hard for discussion and so conveniently pretends that he has not seen it . |
| 4 | Then he had to wait an hour for a taxi , but made it just in time to introduce Phil Collins . |
| 5 | Nails calmed down enough to stop it hurting , but made it quite plain that he was agreeing to nothing . |
| 6 | However , even if the L.G.U. was left wondering if it should n't have kept the public better informed , it must have been greatly heartened by the number of spectators who not only came to this out-of-the-way championship but made it abundantly clear that they were greatly taken with the high standard of play . |
| 7 | While the European Community quarrels over subsidies with America and other farm exporters in the Uruguay round of world trade talks , New Zealand 's farmers are showing that eliminating subsidies completely will not wipe out farming , but make it far more efficient instead . |
| 8 | You will probably want to continue adding a pinch of salt to your cooking water for potatoes , pasta and rice , but make it as little as possible . |
| 9 | When faced with a document , gobbet , quotation , exercise or problem , do not accept it passively , but interrogate it thoroughly . |
| 10 | They took Rye and then attacked Winchelsea , but found it heavily defended by the Abbot of Battle . |
| 11 | He was developing self-control in the classroom , but found it harder on the playground where it seemed that he was easily influenced by other children to behave badly . |
| 12 | While Danzigers remained unimpressed by Polish historical claims , Germany , too , longed to deny sovereignty , but found it more convenient in practice to encourage notions of the Free City 's independence , since this discomfited the Poles without direct confrontation . |
| 13 | The facilities start with a remote switch socket for connecting the optional FC6 foot controller , offering remote switching without tying up the MIDI in socket ( I tried the FC6 but found it more suited to a keyboard player , so would recommend a standard MIDI switching pedal ) . |
| 14 | He had qualified at university in geology and geography , had tried teaching in Hull but found it too confining and when one of the old guard told him he should be spending more time with children who had some potential rather than those to whom he felt committed , he resigned on the same day . |
| 15 | They twice tried owning houses but found it too expensive so they gave them away , and Charles refused to accept any of his estranged father 's estate . |
| 16 | Jane contemplated designing a jumper based on her favourite sport of canoeing , but found it too ambitious . |
| 17 | I glanced quickly at it but found it too difficult to understand , so I gave it back . |
| 18 | Last year Hopper trained down to heavyweight , but found it too draining and lost heavily . |
| 19 | He accomplished the most difficult of all sporting tasks : not just taking his team to the top but keeping it there . |
| 20 | But owes it chiefly to her Tea ? |
| 21 | The Hardys left Swanage early in 1876 but visited it again in 1892 , when they attended a meeting of the Dorset Field Club and ‘ were introduced to old Mr B(urt) , ‘ the King of Swanage ’ ’ . |
| 22 | Elevate the status of your audience through assuming they know more than they do but explaining it anyway . |
| 23 | The excavators at Silchester and Caerwent had found great quantities , but regarded it as merely so commonplace and ordinary , that they hardly bothered even to mention it , thus ignoring the important principle laid down earlier by the great Pitt-Rivers , who attempted to record everything he found ‘ however small and however common … common things are of more importance than particular things , because they are more prevalent ’ ( 1898 , 27 ) . |
| 24 | But has it really been tougher than before ? |
| 25 | They are chewing a drug plant and drinking their quite disgusting beer or spirit — I had only one sip and did not stay to analyse the taste but rejected it instantly — the dancers — wearing headdresses feathered like exotic birds and daubed all over with signs and scribbles — messages to their gods , I assumed — then begin to pound the earth in a movement which matches the drumming perfectly and , like the drumming , is powerfully affecting . ’ |
| 26 | For a moment , however , she imagined escaping from her present hard life by marrying Alec , but rejected it immediately . |
| 27 | Liquids on the other hand flow if subjected to a stress ; they do not store the energy but dissipate it almost entirely as heat and thus possess high damping characteristics . |
| 28 | Robert wanted to go over to him , but judged it best to stay where he was . |
| 29 | A closer look at this challenge will be afforded in Chapter 5 but suffice it here to say that the military 's vested interest in the established planning system , long a fixed point on the compass , may be changing . |
| 30 | Kubota has at least half a dozen Alpha chips in the labs , but says it still has a long way to go before there is sufficient software support to bring out the Titan 2.0 . |