Example sentences of "but [adv] they [modal v] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Singly , the leopard would defeat them , but together they can drive it away . |
| 2 | Yes that used to but sometimes they used to bring it up the river and they use a lot the ballast we er did dredge for erm , for the first part of Cliff Quay , used it when they built that . |
| 3 | But then they may take it and do nothing . ’ |
| 4 | but then they could hit you on the head if they saw you 've got it with you . |
| 5 | ‘ But afterwards they 'll think it was a mouse . |
| 6 | What I 'd like to do is to help them to see that they do n't need to give up on the computer , that they can actually be the master of it , although of course I do n't I 'm not suggesting that they become programmers — that would be to abdicate their function in another way — but certainly they can understand it , and I think of course it keeps coming back to this issue over and over again , an issue about education . |