Example sentences of "but they [verb] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever he spoke to the woman he regretted that he had not stamped his authority and demanded that Gwen should be released from Leconfield and transferred with him , but they had said in Century 's personnel that he must have a secretary who knew the ropes of the Service , and he had acquiesced . |
| 2 | The Brigantes had held it once , against the Romans , but they had retreated to the mountains and left it to gorse and the bracken . |
| 3 | The light was fading perceptibly now ; they had set out in the full glare of the midday sun , but they had ridden for several hours and dusk was creeping across the land . |
| 4 | But they had reckoned without Sister Murphy . |
| 5 | The team felt that , despite the scoreline , they were in a good position at this point but they had reckoned without the depth and strength of the Borders batting . |
| 6 | But they had come to the door of her apartment and the moment was here and now , impossible to delay . |
| 7 | She wanted to say it was only a joke , about boiling oil , but they had arrived at a building with several steps leading up and told to get into single file so that their names could be checked at the door . |
| 8 | A US State Department statement at the end of the meeting said that significant differences remained between the two sides , but they had agreed on the importance of ending the war peacefully . |
| 9 | But they had finished with Elise 's death , and now Merrill had come back to the Midlands city where she and Elise had grown up before they went their separate ways . |
| 10 | She had n't mentioned it , but they had talked of other things . |
| 11 | Owen had a badly gashed forearm , Cynan some splinters of his own shaft lodged deep under his ribs , and all of them minor cuts and bruises ; but they had left behind them on the crest several of their enemies wounded by lances and arrows , some probably dead . |
| 12 | They had never been close friends but they had got on well ; lately , however , a gap had opened . |
| 13 | She had offered Dora and Lyddy a holiday , a chance to go back to their families on their inland farms , but they had refused with dignity . |
| 14 | Originally the Pinkertons were detectives but they became known for spying on union organizers and breaking strikes by violent means . |
| 15 | Such excess were no doubt the responsibility of her courtiers or producers rather than of the Queen herself , but they became associated with her . |
| 16 | The police deny leaving any meaasge , but they 've declined to be interviewed . |
| 17 | But they 've gone with time . |
| 18 | ROS : It was a trying episode while it lasted , but they 've done with us now . |
| 19 | Erm , you 've apparent problems of lack of clarity , well that 's absolutely normal erm , but they 've built into the system . |
| 20 | that but they 've left like the kitcheny bits here in the a , what was the old kitchen area |
| 21 | It 's not generally known , but they 've got at least 60,000 tons of grain away like that , ’ he said . |
| 22 | They 've got to see you sign the will or at least acknowledge it and in practice see you sign they do n't need to know what 's in the will they just want to see you sign but they 've got to be there it 's no good up the road as one witness did for not for me to her husband who was working in his shop witnessed the signature afterwards . |
| 23 | slip through the net so far but they 've got to be done . |
| 24 | ‘ No , but they 've got to be done , and Shirley 's making the tea . ’ |
| 25 | He likes them fresh but they 've got to be like virgins — you know , untouched . |
| 26 | but they 've got to , I remember when Rhys played in that , the F A bars quarter final , two seasons ago down here , they got well over a thousand down there then , and you just could n't move , that were brilliant , all the way round the ground there were about four of five people deep |
| 27 | But they 've got to be long enough in the leg for me |
| 28 | It 's been a bit difficult because we are used to doing the things that choirs do , having music and hiding behind it , and of course getting the girls to be uninhibited has been a bit difficult , but they 've taken to it very well actually and having the costumes for today 's rehearsals has been a great help . |
| 29 | They were young but they walked bent in sorrow . |
| 30 | When Insurers settle a partial loss they acquire no proprietary rights in the subject matter insured — but they become subrogated to all the rights and remedies of the Policyholder in so far as the Policyholder has been indemnified under the Policy . |