Example sentences of "but they [vb base] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they miss one in six . ’ |
| 2 | So where he is now , they really stretch them but they unwind them in the afternoons by games and and |
| 3 | The process may sound wasteful , but they conduct it with great economy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But they put me in mind of trees in November . |
| 7 | It not only conflicts with their self-conscious professionalism but they regard it as an increasing anachronism in the agriculture of the 1970s . |
| 8 | We continue taking the French ships , but they take none of ours . |
| 9 | Yes but they take it from the book . |
| 10 | The young mouth the old words but they mean nothing by them . |
| 11 | But they sell them without an import licence — which is illegal , In practice , the licences are monopolised by the brands ' parent companies , who can afford the extensive clinical trials on the drugs that are necessary for licensing . |
| 12 | Its early days but they expect him to be in hospital for about two months . |
| 13 | They discuss how information is processed to achieve a particular end ( storage and retrieval in memory , for example ) , but they say nothing about the borderline to be drawn between the conscious and unconscious parts of these procedures . |
| 14 | As with the stereotypes we refer to in the business of everyday life , we know they are not , and can not be , comprehensively true or correct , but they provide us with an indispensable framework within which we can interpret particular instances . |
| 15 | Yeah but they treat you as a skivvy . |
| 16 | But they want them to be more explicit , a survey by Channel 4 's Check Out show reveals today . |
| 17 | People always will want horses but they want them in different forms at different times . |
| 18 | Because they want to sell that , but they want it to be sort of like half private |
| 19 | Our high-rise flats were based on Scandinavian flats , but they build them to a much higher standard . |
| 20 | The Riders , one may say , have a sense of awe or of the supernatural ; but they do nothing about it . |
| 21 | Right , now , well they do n't do , but they do them at , now what do you want , do you want to have a look at the erm , green |
| 22 | But they do it in Canada ! |
| 23 | But they accuse me of lying in my book . |
| 24 | The 30 New Zealand supermen — they are only human actually , but they have something like divine status in their own land — fly into Heathrow at lunchtime today for a 13-match tour which next month moves on to Ireland . |
| 25 | These two views of the early medieval economy are irreconcilable , but they have something in common . |
| 26 | It is , of course , a good thing that Extreme dislike war and racism , print addresses for Greenpeace and Amnesty on the sleeve and so forth , but they have nothing of interest to say on the topics ( Nuno wishes that ‘ we were all colourblind , so we could live together peacefully ’ , which is bad news for traffic light designers ) and blow up their tiny philosophical points and questions to elephant size , but in the end , orchestras , big productions and songs in three parts can not disguise lame tunes and lack of anything to say . |
| 27 | Mind you do n't your tongue with that I tell you what they had in er Woolies market as well , I do n't know whether you 've seen them and I do n't , I 've not got you know an old Argos catalogue to compare prices , cos they 've not got it in the summer one , but they have them in the winter ones , it 's like a , a tool box , but it 's on wheels and you make it up , you , you know all the screws and the wheels come out and you 're not , it 's all plastic , I think it must be from age three , because of the little bits , and it 's like erm , I 've seen it somewhere , where I 've been , it has little figures sat in this erm , what would you , it 's like erm , a bit like a truck , yeah , and it 's got the , the figures in it |
| 28 | Women are responsible for family finances but they have none of the power that goes with possession . |
| 29 | but they leave nothing to chance they 've even brought their own satellite to plot the weather … |
| 30 | They do n't tell you what it 's all about , but they pay you for it . ’ |