Example sentences of "but they " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's head over heels in love — but them so am I … ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd have preferred it pink , that 's more feminine like , but them dull colours , that 's just like the Princesses used to wear . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But them 's enemy ! ’ |
| 4 | And old man Verne-Smith and his wife , he knew , lived no more than a mile away , but them he avoided out of simple antipathy . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sorry but them things hurt like hell , whereas giving birth … it 's nothing . |
| 6 | But them boys ! ’ |
| 7 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 8 | ‘ Nay , I know lasses do all that lads do nowadays , but them boxes weigh heavy . |
| 9 | ‘ Because I 'm b aadd , ’ he clowns , but them holds up his shaking hand , spreads his fingers and says : ‘ It 's because of this . |
| 10 | But them I have seen , and they do say that this third man was called back into the church by one of the brothers , at the end of the evening , for some last purpose , after which the brother came out with him to thank them all , and bid them goodnight . |
| 11 | I must say that street , er they were a little busy at the time with Newbury and Christchurch and who can blame but them that they were very successful . |
| 12 | They were very short muzzle things , but them old things there like that , they were jumping when you were firing them you know . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I nivver said I could read Indian signs , but them 's some make of jeep thing . |
| 14 | Clarke/Gray/Bremner … ( ok so Bremner got semi-finals FA & play-off final in same year … but them almost relegation to D3 ! ! ) |
| 15 | I think that , and I know that members from the D S O board , many members excuse me , er agreed that there seems a need to be a more positive approach taken to save the schools and other organisations within the county council network , when considering erm , the uses of the D S O , the advantages that that has not only on the county council , but them as an individual school , college or whatever . |
| 16 | But them Cocodamol things what I take |
| 17 | Perhaps it er you do n't know where the stairs and what kind of stairs it is but them kind of units usually come to bits ours does . |
| 18 | But them I 'm lucky to have have a job really . |
| 19 | But them , them old blankets we had some because we need them when they come , I fold 'em |
| 20 | but them lib |
| 21 | Th that should carry on but them , them batteries is n't any good . |
| 22 | But them ones Bob erm Pam bought me last year was it last year or the year before ? |
| 23 | Oh I know but them who are , are really bad |
| 24 | But like I said if it if you , if you do that then it 's for them and for yourself but them being up your arse is irritating if you just fucking carry on as if nothing had happened , but you 're aware of the th them doing that then I think it 's a fucking I 've that 's a psychological edge over them anyway it 's just the personalities obviously , but er |
| 25 | We 've found everybody but them . |
| 26 | Everyone but them . |
| 27 | Westminster Hospital , say that Andrew , on of their patients , needs to be admitted but they are unable to find transport as no ambulance is available . |
| 28 | For many a stay in hospital is in appropriate but they are often too weak or ill to care for themselves properly . |
| 29 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 30 | These qualities have always been present in the metaphors and similes of poetry but they have been less frequent in painting , which in the past was largely concerned with reproducing external reality , with decoration , or , as in the more advanced movements of recent years , with the composition of color and line into formal design . |