Example sentences of "but they [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only were the sites of their cancer much more significant compared to their ‘ matched ’ counterparts , but they had also arrived at Bristol when their disease was already worse and therefore more likely to lead to an earlier death . |
| 2 | But they had merely asked for it — petitioned — begged — like ‘ humble servants ’ — if your Grace would graciously grant … |
| 3 | They remained , therefore , on the outskirts of the town , until , terrified of being crushed by the mob , they decided to seek refuge in the open fields , but they had hardly agreed on this when fresh ash clouds , denser than ever , overwhelmed them and brought total darkness . |
| 4 | ‘ My parents thought a schoolmaster 's salary was riches , but they had always lived in very humble circumstances . |
| 5 | But they had always kept in touch , by letter and occasionally by telephone , though recently Caro 's calls had come either from work or from a public kiosk . |
| 6 | At the time Rachel herself had still been doing her training but they had all worked at the same hospital — David as a senior house officer and Jennifer as a staff nurse on Orthopaedics . |
| 7 | Occasionally they gave a perfunctory look up and down the carriage , but they had obviously wilted with the tedium of the journey and the foul air . |
| 8 | There were the papers produced by the political groups , but they seemed fatally restricted to the obsessions of other times , and to backbiting amongst themselves . |
| 9 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |
| 10 | You know that 's all right he may , might , alright there may of been a soldier there , but they 've just come from that direction |
| 11 | Jock , no-one can be bothered to work , but they 've just got ta do it . |
| 12 | I mean you go to other towns , they they might not know Nottingham , but they 've usually heard of . |
| 13 | No , a Sierra , a Sierra the whole lot comes up , yes , but they 've now changed to a Sapphire and the Sapphire is just the boot , yeah ? |
| 14 | I seemed to have a separate brain for each limb , but they 'd all broken off diplomatic relations . |
| 15 | Such transmitted signals have little or no effect on lights , motors and electrical equipment but they arc easily detected by an electronic circuit . |
| 16 | Not only are beer taxes still with us , but they have just gone through their biggest shake-up for many years . |
| 17 | But they have also rallied to a call to save their privileged world — as women they must protect their children , their families , their religion and , above all , their enormous wealth . |
| 18 | We half expected them to come back a few days later , but they have never returned to the barn we prepared so painstakingly for them , although they are still sometimes seen in the vicinity . |
| 19 | DOWN may or may not have meant it but they have certainly succeeded in providing Derry with an extra incentive to triumph in next Sunday 's Ulster championship glamour tie . |