Example sentences of "but they [adv] [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took several minutes but they finally boarded the train , fought their way down the corridor and collapsed into the relative calm of a first-class carriage . |
| 2 | There were modest alternatives available to an antislavery readership but they either propounded the outlook of a minority tendency as did the Anti-Slavery Advocate , edited by the Irish Garrisonian Richard Webb in the 1850s , or had a predominantly local circulation as was likely with the short-lived Anti-Slavery Watchman of Manchester produced by the Garrisonian group around George Thompson and his son-in-law F. W. Chesson , or propounded a particular remedy for slavery in the case of the Quaker Richardson family in Newcastle through the Slave 's stress on the free produce movement . |
| 3 | The French , like the Austrians and the Russians , were quite ready to consider the exclusion of the Turks from Serbia and , indeed , from all their European provinces , if they could see an advantage for themselves , but they also saw the danger of a disastrous confrontation if any of them moved before the time was ripe . |
| 4 | ‘ They did , Michael , but they also liked the fact that our cellars connected with next door , which connected with next door to that , which I believe led out to the East River . ’ |
| 5 | But they also used the opportunity to make a desperate plea in the columns of this newspaper for information about the murder . |
| 6 | Lindsey argued that the tax cuts were not only incentive creating but they also increased the cost of tax avoidance . |
| 7 | In the Greek Church , the mystical writings of the fifth century author who wrote under the pseudonym of Dionysius the Areopagite achieved near-canonical status : not only did they inform the devotional and liturgical life of the people , but they also influenced the development of Orthodox theology which became hostile to any rationalistic or naturalistic ways of interpreting the reality of God and religious truth . |
| 8 | These are all justified by the dramatic context Orpheus 's happiness as he sings to the shepherds , his effort to impress Charon , his triumph as he marches off to fetch Eurydice — but they also gave the audience music to remember . |
| 9 | Those who supported the document accepted that economic reform could not be realized without an integrated market , but they also urged the strengthening of the state role in fiscal , monetary , tax and foreign relations policy ; while they were not against private ownership they favoured state ownership in industries which were of " economic interest " . |
| 10 | They are more powerful actors on the stage than the human ones , but they neither built the set nor determine the play . |
| 11 | They did not screw up Niki 's car deliberately , but they probably thought the wind had gone out of his sails . |
| 12 | They still ( like Citrine himself ) lacked the threshold level of knowledge necessary to make serious contributions to the more technical decisions , but they soon acquired the expertise to translate known needs into appropriate Whitehall language , according to the changing fashions dictated by public opinion or cabinet preoccupations . |
| 13 | The Macrory proposals also received ‘ a rough ride ’ ( Arthur 1980:98 ) but they nevertheless formed the basis of the Local Government ( NI ) Act 1972 . |
| 14 | Non-transferable votes at 695 were the lowest in any constituency in the province but they nevertheless covered the difference , 66 , between the last candidate elected Burns ( DUP ) , and the runner up , Magee ( UPNI ) , more than ten times . |
| 15 | A number of attempts to sue experts reached the law reports in the years before 1975 , but they invariably met the answer that the experts were " quasi-arbitrators " and therefore could not be sued . |
| 16 | But they simply kept the thing in check and had the side-effect of enlarging the dopamine system . |
| 17 | They remained so throughout their existence — the force of history and tradition was too strong to be resisted — but they gradually lost the sympathy of the world , which placed a higher value on convenience and common sense than on permanence and impossible loyalties . |
| 18 | Their relationships and marriage alliances did not conduce to peace , but they commonly gave the warfare of the period the appearance of civil war , even though the rank and file of the soldiers can hardly have felt the bond which united the leaders on both sides . |
| 19 | He 's borrowed from the bank to finance the projects , but they wrongly calculated the interest due , charging him nearly £9,000 too much . |
| 20 | The board responsible for the orphans sometimes checked on the health of the children , but they always sent the beadle , a kind of local policeman , to announce their visit the day before . |
| 21 | They admitted they were told on Saturday that Timothy had not returned from a 250-mile trip from Tilbury in Essex — but they only found the lorry on Monday morning . |
| 22 | She said to me , Phil , they ca n't my spirit , but they really took the heart out of me . |
| 23 | The church was therefore prepared to put its money where its mouth was : churchmen in Charles 's reign might complain bitterly of the economic burdens of military service and fiscal exactions borne by their particular churches , but they never questioned the right and duty of kings to impose these on the church at large in order to ensure the well-being of the Christian people . |
| 24 | The tithe barns , the Rectory , the toll bridges no longer controlled daily life , but they still punctuated the landscape . |
| 25 | None of them won but they still considered the day a victory . |
| 26 | But they quickly realised the judge had done them a great disservice and that his report hinged on a massive irony . |
| 27 | In some areas , such as domestic ( especially space heating ) sales ( as we shall see in Chapter 7 ) , the economists ' criticism that the demand could have been more efficiently met by other fuels was generally convincing , but they greatly exaggerated the extent to which electricity investment was dominated by the need to meet this demand . |
| 28 | Having beaten the Royal Navy , who then defeated the RAF , the Army needed only a draw to give them their 29th outright title , but they seldom generated the cohesion necessary to trouble what was a disciplined RAF team . |