Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | but nothing stirred their animosity more than the treatment of General Dyer after the massacre at Amritsar . |
| 2 | As a Class 2 Port Operator , Driver Oliver had already played a full part in the discharge of many of the vessels , but everyone took their turn at sentry duty in the trenches protecting the squadron location . |
| 3 | Aged from eighteen to eighty , some had n't rung a bell for almost fifty years , but everyone pulled their weight on this historic occasion . |
| 4 | But I made their locks for H M S Gothic . |
| 5 | Marius jerked his head at them in disapproval but I liked their Romany appeal . |
| 6 | But I loved their products and was dying to work for them . ’ |
| 7 | I simply was n't used to all the attention , but I answered their questions as best I could . |
| 8 | But I found their approach to the Beethoven far too earnest and heavy-handed for music of such freshness and charm . |
| 9 | Now they managed to get along together reasonably well , but she knew their relationship was a million miles from what it had once been , and it was an enduring sadness in her life . |
| 10 | She did n't like the Nazis , but she liked their money . |
| 11 | I saw people who came in pretty straight but who changed their attitudes and opinions drastically . |
| 12 | Midfielder Jamie Pollock scored his first League goal in superb style for Boro , but they suffered their first League defeat since mid-January . |
| 13 | For the third time this season Cheadle were put on the rack but they mustered their strength in the final quarter to open up a 14–10 lead . |
| 14 | Group varied discriminated effectively between L+ and L- , but they directed their search at L+ itself and not to the F+ place nearby ( Fig. 3 b ) . |
| 15 | But they knew their role well and they delivered . |
| 16 | The selectors did know the gender of the artists but they stressed their aim to choose a show that would appeal to a cross section of visitors . |
| 17 | They had their happy times , of course , but they had their dark , desperate ones too . |
| 18 | But they had their own ideas about what a nomadic lifestyle means . |
| 19 | they failed , but they failed their eleven plus twice |
| 20 | ‘ We were asking them to play the main role in caring for their children , but they felt their authority was being undermined by the assessments . |
| 21 | But they told their grand father that they had seen the god , and that he had taken them to the mountain-top . |
| 22 | But they brought their arrangements forward after deciding to make the journey by ferry and coach . |
| 23 | They were always too busy to come but they sent their children . |
| 24 | By the time Alice 's Adventures In Wonderland was released , Crawford and wife Gabrielle had split up , but they kept their parting quiet from the press for eighteen months . |
| 25 | The pressure was all on Pippa Nolan then … she could n't afford to make one slip … one fence down would have lost it … her heart must have stopped when they rattled one but they kept their nerve and the lead to win Blenheim 's International Horse Trials |
| 26 | They crowded the path , uneasy on their uneasy mounts , looking from tree to tree in search of their assailants ; but they kept their hands from their swords . |
| 27 | But they met their match in Ryde School from the Isle of Wight , who pipped them for victory . |
| 28 | Not only did the Tories win more votes than seemed possible when the election was announced , but they improved their position relative to Labour on 13 of the 14 issues that Gallup monitored during the campaign . |
| 29 | But they got their fingers burned and lost a lot of money . |
| 30 | But they changed their mind . |