Example sentences of "but they [verb] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm that would have been much much quicker if they 'd bothered and organized them but they had n't organized anything . |
| 2 | Oh bless their hearts , they 'd always helped , but they had n't realised I think . |
| 3 | He said there were 4 potential wage earners in the household but they had n't made any payment for 17 months . |
| 4 | It was old news , but they had n't seen each other to talk of it . |
| 5 | I had seen newspaper photos of him since his release from the psikhushka , but they had n't prepared me for his gauntness , pallor , baldness . |
| 6 | But they had n't conceived him as a duty , merely to increase the number of Imperials on the planet . |
| 7 | Do you er did but they had n't built a ship in Porthmadog since nineteen thirteen . |
| 8 | But they had n't done any harm . |
| 9 | That they 've done what they 've said they 've done , and made a note on the things they 'd said they 'd done , but they had n't done . |
| 10 | They 'd stretched him , but they had n't snapped him . |
| 11 | Oh , they 'd been polite , made him welcome , but they had n't trusted him . |
| 12 | So I turned on the TV to find the news , but they had n't found out who had been on board yet |
| 13 | But they had n't found the money when the deadline passed a week ago . |
| 14 | The duty sergeant told me that Bert Shorrocks was still in the cells and due up in front of the beak that afternoon , but they had n't set eyes on my old man the whole weekend . |
| 15 | United Airlines and American Airlines I 've been told are n't really all that good to fly with , mate of ours went up to the airport to pick his parents up , they just got back from a holiday in and er they flew and a , on a seven hour journey , where ever it was they come from , they did n't have any food , no food , nothing , what they done is they , they , they 'd taken a container off , but they had n't put a new one on . |
| 16 | The clerk behind the hatch asked for their empties before she 'd hand over the new bottles but they had n't got them . |
| 17 | Benny heard from Patsy that the Healys had been up to Dublin to look for a child to adopt but they had n't got one because Mr Healy had a weak chest . |
| 18 | But they had n't got the backup of erm like th the regulator appointed . |
| 19 | So , you know , but they had n't got the selection that Rackhams had . |
| 20 | She could 've used Switch card but they had n't got one of them neither . |
| 21 | We had delivered it but they had n't taken it from the gate house to you know , normal procedure but they , we delivered it normally but they had n't taken it to the exact part of the hospital it was going to . |
| 22 | We had delivered it but they had n't taken it from the gate house to you know , normal procedure but they , we delivered it normally but they had n't taken it to the exact part of the hospital it was going to . |
| 23 | But they had n't finished . ’ |
| 24 | There were the initials GWE/BW typed at the top of the letter but they had n't helped . |
| 25 | Cos there were a lot of losses of course o in after the convoys had been introduced for the ocean thing but they had n't introduced convoys for inshore . |
| 26 | But they had n't known that then , and if they had could not have known how much one day such postcards would have supported the story Adam was beginning to think he would tell . |
| 27 | St Matthew 's had liaised with the Refuge about Harry but they had n't known what to suggest . |
| 28 | The line of islanders was entrenched behind burning shrubs on the bank of the stream , at the point where the stockade was indeed vulnerable , but they had n't penetrated beyond it , though they had inflicted damage on the settlement 's defenders . |
| 29 | But they had n't considered the rest of the poem , which was the ultimate feminist statement . |
| 30 | Marseille 's foreign stars , Croat Alen Boksic and German international Rudi Voeller had earlier fired the Frenchmen into what looked an unassailable lead , but they had n't counted on Rangers ' indomitable spirit . |