Example sentences of "but they [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I nivver said I could read Indian signs , but them 's some make of jeep thing . |
| 2 | Devotees of the films will love playing out all the scenes , but they 're great games in their own right with neat graphics and well-designed , compulsive action . |
| 3 | ‘ But they 're top-job people , you see , and they 're all in family units so they do n't understand , their minds are closed . |
| 4 | Girls , mind you , but they 're regular tearaways and Mrs Henley , she had three last week and they keep runnin' away . |
| 5 | You 'd think they 'd bottle it , make it last over the weeks or months , but they 're simple people , and there 's no holding them back . |
| 6 | All right , I thought ; yes , it 's womanish to go to him , but they 're poor times , and maybe an astrologer 's a rug to put over you when you 're wintering . |
| 7 | somebody is a bit later on in the season but they 're overnight travel by coach I would have thought . |
| 8 | But they 're slippery customers and they 'll probably find a way . |
| 9 | But they 're dotted beats . |
| 10 | But they 're all users , moulders , deceivers . |
| 11 | it is a lot , but they 're all part of the same thing . |
| 12 | but they 're all money , money , money are n't they ? |
| 13 | He 's bringing half-a-dozen bodyguards with him but they 're all amateurs , made up of officers from the Zimbalan army . |
| 14 | yellow pine , but they 're all sizes , I said oh I said you 've got some nice old pine , he said oh there 's two guys come use it for furniture |
| 15 | But they 're strange guitars ; I love the necks , they really suit me , but they never seem to ‘ wear in ’ the way wooden necks do . |
| 16 | But they 're good mates . |
| 17 | But they 're good boys . |
| 18 | They 've each got ideally a circle and a line so they have identical features but they 're different letters so clearly , I mean it 's quite obvious , it 's not only the features present but also their relationship to the other features that 're present that determines what type of letter is recognised So any model of perception would have to take that into account . |
| 19 | They 're the same kind exactly but they 're different colours that 's all . |
| 20 | I mean , Essex only has 3,000 students on a good day , and modern university campuses may be foreign turf to you , but they 're happy hunting grounds to people like me . |
| 21 | But they 're nocturnal birds , therefore they are seen only at night . |
| 22 | But they 're hopeful things will pick up : |
| 23 | Oh yeah you did but you 've got each but they 're deeper ones so |
| 24 | But they 're hellish cold in the winter ! |
| 25 | But they 're big boys |
| 26 | But they 're big boys as well . |
| 27 | Eleven million erm , but they 're some way down the track , they 're not at the top of the hierarchy |
| 28 | six or seven times when I walked down Tesco on a lunch time on my own , they 're always at the end one , so I suppose they could get in and out , but they 're lovely kids some of them |
| 29 | Yeah , but they 're more money are n't they ? |
| 30 | But they are man-made capital rather than environmental capital . |