Example sentences of "but they [adv] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took several minutes but they finally boarded the train , fought their way down the corridor and collapsed into the relative calm of a first-class carriage . |
| 2 | It was not only the trade figures that have reversed this view , but they clearly affected the markets most . |
| 3 | She did not confirm for them that she had been meeting an escaped prisoner and she did not explain the significance of the print-out , but they clearly knew the first and it would be only a short time before they worked out the second . |
| 4 | There were modest alternatives available to an antislavery readership but they either propounded the outlook of a minority tendency as did the Anti-Slavery Advocate , edited by the Irish Garrisonian Richard Webb in the 1850s , or had a predominantly local circulation as was likely with the short-lived Anti-Slavery Watchman of Manchester produced by the Garrisonian group around George Thompson and his son-in-law F. W. Chesson , or propounded a particular remedy for slavery in the case of the Quaker Richardson family in Newcastle through the Slave 's stress on the free produce movement . |
| 5 | They did n't go to playgroup sessions , but they just went the mums and toddler session . |
| 6 | The French , like the Austrians and the Russians , were quite ready to consider the exclusion of the Turks from Serbia and , indeed , from all their European provinces , if they could see an advantage for themselves , but they also saw the danger of a disastrous confrontation if any of them moved before the time was ripe . |
| 7 | But they also offered a sense of the new . |
| 8 | But they also had an unenviable reputation for drunkenness , particularly on the Trans-Siberian , no doubt as a result of the privations of climate and loneliness they had to endure there . |
| 9 | But they also said the Jews would have a homeland in Palestine and agreed that when the war ended the French would control Syria and what was then called Mount Lebanon . |
| 10 | ‘ They did , Michael , but they also liked the fact that our cellars connected with next door , which connected with next door to that , which I believe led out to the East River . ’ |
| 11 | The 1970 treaties with Russia and Poland included the mutual renunciation of force but they also marked an acceptance of the status quo in Europe ( including Germany 's division ) and of the Oder-Neisse border . |
| 12 | By the 1920s , the zaibatsu had come to dominate the newer manufacturing sectors like steel , machinery or shipbuilding but they also dominated the financial sector , owning two-thirds of banking and insurance institutions . |
| 13 | But they also used the opportunity to make a desperate plea in the columns of this newspaper for information about the murder . |
| 14 | But they also wanted a lift into town and we agreed to go to the Hard Rock Café in Honolulu together that night . |
| 15 | Lindsey argued that the tax cuts were not only incentive creating but they also increased the cost of tax avoidance . |
| 16 | In the Greek Church , the mystical writings of the fifth century author who wrote under the pseudonym of Dionysius the Areopagite achieved near-canonical status : not only did they inform the devotional and liturgical life of the people , but they also influenced the development of Orthodox theology which became hostile to any rationalistic or naturalistic ways of interpreting the reality of God and religious truth . |
| 17 | Most of the songs originated with the Serbs , but they also influenced the other Slav peoples of the Balkans , including the cultivated literati of Ragusa and the Dalmatian cities . |
| 18 | These are all justified by the dramatic context Orpheus 's happiness as he sings to the shepherds , his effort to impress Charon , his triumph as he marches off to fetch Eurydice — but they also gave the audience music to remember . |
| 19 | Those who supported the document accepted that economic reform could not be realized without an integrated market , but they also urged the strengthening of the state role in fiscal , monetary , tax and foreign relations policy ; while they were not against private ownership they favoured state ownership in industries which were of " economic interest " . |
| 20 | They are more powerful actors on the stage than the human ones , but they neither built the set nor determine the play . |
| 21 | They did not screw up Niki 's car deliberately , but they probably thought the wind had gone out of his sails . |
| 22 | In the Stour Valley of West Suffolk these were thick on the ground in the heyday of the clothing trade , but they probably lacked a truly urban ethos , and consequently fell easy prey to the winds of economic change . |
| 23 | But they probably paid a few million more for Alan Bond 's Irises . |
| 24 | Er , there may be one there may have been one that failed , I 'm not sure but they probably did a resit and got through in September . |
| 25 | They still ( like Citrine himself ) lacked the threshold level of knowledge necessary to make serious contributions to the more technical decisions , but they soon acquired the expertise to translate known needs into appropriate Whitehall language , according to the changing fashions dictated by public opinion or cabinet preoccupations . |
| 26 | The Macrory proposals also received ‘ a rough ride ’ ( Arthur 1980:98 ) but they nevertheless formed the basis of the Local Government ( NI ) Act 1972 . |
| 27 | Non-transferable votes at 695 were the lowest in any constituency in the province but they nevertheless covered the difference , 66 , between the last candidate elected Burns ( DUP ) , and the runner up , Magee ( UPNI ) , more than ten times . |
| 28 | A number of attempts to sue experts reached the law reports in the years before 1975 , but they invariably met the answer that the experts were " quasi-arbitrators " and therefore could not be sued . |
| 29 | But they simply kept the thing in check and had the side-effect of enlarging the dopamine system . |
| 30 | They remained so throughout their existence — the force of history and tradition was too strong to be resisted — but they gradually lost the sympathy of the world , which placed a higher value on convenience and common sense than on permanence and impossible loyalties . |