Example sentences of "but it [vb past] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't even know she was there , but it seemed wiser to hide . |
| 2 | ‘ I never finished it , but it seemed better just as an idea to sum up the album . |
| 3 | I mean I actually voted for this contract , erm , rather reluctantly , but it seemed better than not , doing so at the time , but we were given assurances , and it was very well understood by absolutely everybody , that vigorous management would be needed in order to achieve the targetising and that was the only way that the savings were going to be made , and it does seem that , that , erm that has not been going on . |
| 4 | Less than a few seconds , but it seemed longer than time . |
| 5 | The view that the East Ropery Banks site might be considered for ‘ high value ’ housing in order to provide potential consumers for the shopping centre had first been expressed in the Poulson Report of 1965 , but it had greater saliency by 1971 because the authority was already dealing with its second property company ( Town and City ) and it was clear that market conditions made the redevelopment of North Shields centre a highly marginal project . |
| 6 | ‘ But it got louder and louder until I recognised it as Benny Hill 's voice . |
| 7 | ‘ She did , but it got worse for her . |
| 8 | It started off badly — in April 1940 Norman Birkett spoke of ‘ gross mistakes and pathological stupidities in connexion with its internment policy ( p. 39 ) — but it got better . |
| 9 | Towards the end it got better and they worked , it was a bad start , but it got better towards the end . |
| 10 | This would at best have been a major irritant for an embattled leader of the opposition But it became worse than that . |
| 11 | Political anti-semitism attracted mass support for the BUF in a limited geographical area , but it engendered greater hostility within those same localities and had appalling consequences elsewhere . |
| 12 | It looks alright , but it looked better when it was long . |
| 13 | It did n't hurt , honestly , but it looked worse than it was and Lisabeth sort of saw red . ’ |
| 14 | The change in v 1 was , on average , relatively greater than the change in P immediately after the tetanus , but it showed greater decrement over time . |