Example sentences of "but [adv] they [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | E. People have some choice of where to shop , but normally they go to the nearest place which has the type of goods they want . |
| 2 | Her eyelids flipped open , and the world was hard-edged , dull and ugly , and so big , so big it squashed the tiny meanings out of sight but still they hovered on the borders of her mental vision and she would have dreamt her way back into that fae¨rie ether but a harsh voice slurred a saw of sound at her . |
| 3 | The police were slow to realize that there was trouble , but now they moved into the crowd , attempting to find the troublemakers . |
| 4 | These Q branches are often distinct , but sometimes they merge into the rest of the band . |
| 5 | But then they talked about the North , of Stockton and Teesside , and Macmillan enquired with a warmth of feeling which Ramsey found impressive . |
| 6 | Leaving Mongolia aside , the leaders of each country are the linear descendants of ‘ Muscovite ’ Communists , sheltered in the USSR during the Second World War and brought to power in the van of the Red Army : in times of friction , it takes little to remind Eastern Europe 's leaders not only how their bread is buttered , but how they got into the larder in the first place . |
| 7 | Most have interesting things to say , but why they appear in the order they do is explicable only on some deep theory of random numbers : the editors provide no justification for the selection or their order — or useful introductory remarks or guidelines . |