Example sentences of "but they [vb base] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than twenty four hours after the incident , firemen are still making the building safe , but they 've denied suggestions that the chemicals involved were a serious potential hazard.Julie Dolphin reports . |
| 2 | Glenn Hoddle says its been frustrating and annoying not to have had a game , but they 've played Spurs in a friendly and are in good shape . |
| 3 | But they 've cleared roof bolts as a cause . |
| 4 | but , but , but they 've got protection . |
| 5 | No , I 've got , there is goldfish in there , but they 've got Koi , I 've got three Koi in now I think |
| 6 | ‘ But they 've got finger-prints all over them ! ’ |
| 7 | Had a er not the best of starts but they 've taken control of the game for my money o over the last period . |
| 8 | Driver-only buses have become the norm , and may have increased privatised profitability , but they 've decreased traffic flow . |
| 9 | I 've tried to explain that anybody in a white coat looks like a hospital attendant , but they keep demanding results . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm sure there are lots of responsible Rottweiler owners , but they tend to put dogs before children . |
| 11 | They have become a bit more open-minded now but they like to make changes slowly . |
| 12 | Once outside , affected characters have no urge to return , but they continue to feel despair for the duration of this magical effect . |
| 13 | Very young children understand how a desire can direct a person 's actions , but they seem to see desire as an inherent property of an object , rather than as one individual 's subjective evaluation of the object . |
| 14 | But they seem to get things done at Edingley at site meetings . |
| 15 | So but they want to do cooking trials as well , actual cooking trials |
| 16 | But they advise sparing use of such melodramatic tactics ‘ unless you think you can consistently use your reputation as a high-strung hysteric to your advantage ’ . |
| 17 | These claims may be inflated for Crockett and Tubbs , but they do suggest strengths in Mann 's latest project , The Last Of The Mohicans , an American adventure story set in the 18th Century , written in the 19th and now given an energy forgotten by all but a few '90s action directors . |
| 18 | But they do make choices . |
| 19 | Counselling skills can be learned but they do require practice and Burnard warns that counselling techniques should not be overused or they may indeed impede listening and communication . |
| 20 | The gross statistics of variation do not , of course , tell us exactly when ( or why ) these changes of footing happened , but they do provide evidence that they took place . |
| 21 | The first four counts are of limited use to the historian for they do not list individual households , but they do provide population figures on a township basis . |
| 22 | Deixis is a fundamental element of human discourse ( as Lyons 1977 notes , not all languages have tense , but they do have deixis ) , and I intend to investigate its behaviour in one particular kind of text . |
| 23 | It would be unkind to talk of the pollsters making excuses , but they do have explanations . |
| 24 | ‘ In fact , children do not need systems of punishment and reward to keep them in line , but they do need discipline . |
| 25 | But they do publish things . |
| 26 | Retrospective conversions and new resources offer opportunities for scholars , but they do pose problems for librarians . |
| 27 | These courses do not lead to qualifications awarded by the University , but they do help candidates for professional qualifications , such as the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians ( MRCPEd ) and for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons ( FRCSEd ) . |
| 28 | It was announced in 1985 that the 450 were destined for the United States , but they have fallen victim to the moratorium operating in the USA . |
| 29 | Erm the economic development unit of the borough , Mr Allenby , should know more about it than me , but they have done studies of the firms in Harrogate that can be expected to seek relocation within the borough as they sort themselves out over the next five years , and erm their own calculations for the next five years is more than the county 's whole calculation for the next fifteen years , which suggested to us again that there was a problem about the understanding that the county had on the matter of relocations within Harrogate compared with what was going on locally . |
| 30 | Not only that , but they have fixed wheels , so can not be freewheeled along . |