Example sentences of "but they [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some distance behind them her ladies walked ; they were kind , but they oppressed her with their insistence on her royalty , and it was hard to live up to them . |
| 2 | So right away you had Hawaiian choirs singing church music , but they tinged it with this Hawaiian melodic sense , which is like a different way of resolving a melody . |
| 3 | Many aspects of his analysis were similar to those advanced by Blauner , but they led him to an opposite conclusion . |
| 4 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 5 | But they made it to the boat , which sailed in the early hours of 1 September , two days before war was declared . |
| 6 | But they miss one in six . ’ |
| 7 | It is true that on their horses and with their arms they looked well at a review ; but they knew nothing of war . ’ |
| 8 | So where he is now , they really stretch them but they unwind them in the afternoons by games and and |
| 9 | When you walked into the well what I would call a cupboard but they classed it as the bathroom . |
| 10 | But they greeted her as an old friend . |
| 11 | But they had them like this and they were square and oblong . |
| 12 | In Acts we have two vivid descriptions of what has come to be called the communism of the early Church : ‘ All who believed were together and had all things in common ; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all , as any had need ’ ( Acts 2:44–5 ) ; and ‘ No one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own , but they had everything in common … |
| 13 | ‘ He told us how he loved Leanne , but they had nothing in common . |
| 14 | But they had one in the corner you see and I could see the back leg was gone said to Margaret an said I might as well do something of that , you know , to do up it 's the only one that they had there that wanted really wanted repairing , so the feller said ooh I do n't know he said hang on , I 'll look in the book . |
| 15 | But they took them into the castle at Montgomery , prisoners . ’ |
| 16 | But yet I was suspended , right , for a long time and she after she came back all she had is a little scratch there but they took 'er to 'ospital just to make it seem serious and she come back in school the next day . |
| 17 | God knows what happened to the family they found us with , but they took us to a place called Fresnes gaol , Paris . |
| 18 | Mark puzzled over the words , but they meant nothing to him . |
| 19 | I read the appeal in the newspapers for Madame V to come forward , but they said nothing about abduction or ransom . |
| 20 | Sarah had told Anne that her grandmother 's lodger Josh Adamson had died of a heart attack at the start of the raid , but they said nothing of this to Julia nor of the casualty lists which were posted up containing many names of people they knew . |
| 21 | The process may sound wasteful , but they conduct it with great economy . |
| 22 | It was their job to get results , but they left it to others to act on the research findings . |
| 23 | I do shut them up at night because of the stoats and the foxes , but they put themselves to bed , I only have to shut the door . |
| 24 | And erm I did n't get the actual job I went for but they put me on the , on the relief register so that I go round to different people 's homes or different big hospitals and different Mencap homes relieving people when they 're on holiday or if they 're short of staff or something like that . |
| 25 | But they put me in mind of trees in November . |
| 26 | It not only conflicts with their self-conscious professionalism but they regard it as an increasing anachronism in the agriculture of the 1970s . |
| 27 | The Fabians inherited both the positive scientific spirit and a conception that progress follows natural laws from the evolutionists , but they adapted it to French sociological positivism based on the principle of social solidarity . |
| 28 | ‘ When I vacated the office I asked the Rates Agency to send me an adjusted bill , but they sent it to the office and I did not get it , ’ he said . |
| 29 | We continue taking the French ships , but they take none of ours . |
| 30 | Yes but they take it from the book . |