Example sentences of "but [conj] they [verb] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stand outside , fidgeting and fighting but once they get it they 're okay . |
| 2 | They stand outside , fidgeting and fighting but once they get it they 're okay . |
| 3 | ‘ But if they take 'er I swear I 'll not lose sight of 'er . |
| 4 | But if they tell us it is ‘ better ’ to be tall , or British , or artistic , or shop at Harrods , we just might take them seriously — yet such ideas are just as meaningless . |
| 5 | Rats will initially sample , in small quantities , almost anything ; but if they find what they have taken makes them sick , they avoid eating anything like it again . |
| 6 | It has to though because if in the pa if they 've had this long-term sort of culture for all this time they need to be given ideas but essentially if their traditional values were so strong they would have rejected what the Communist Party was trying to say , but because they accepted it it meant they ha they did actually have the potential to be revolutionary . |
| 7 | But when they took me they also took my bicycle , and I ca n't live without it . |
| 8 | But when they arrived what they got was far from a welcome home . |
| 9 | But as they said it I felt something being pulled round my neck . |
| 10 | But as they analyse what he has said to different people , they begin to see that the question is not really pertinent . |