Example sentences of "but they [vb past] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Midfielder Jamie Pollock scored his first League goal in superb style for Boro , but they suffered their first League defeat since mid-January . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | But they knew their role well and they delivered . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They had their happy times , of course , but they had their dark , desperate ones too . |
| 7 | But they had their own ideas about what a nomadic lifestyle means . |
| 8 | they failed , but they failed their eleven plus twice |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | But they told their grand father that they had seen the god , and that he had taken them to the mountain-top . |
| 11 | But they brought their arrangements forward after deciding to make the journey by ferry and coach . |
| 12 | They were always too busy to come but they sent their children . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But they met their match in Ryde School from the Isle of Wight , who pipped them for victory . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But they got their fingers burned and lost a lot of money . |
| 19 | But they changed their mind . |
| 20 | After all these years , has the Labour party not learnt that people pay their taxes in sorrow , but they paid their rates in anger ? |
| 21 | Alliance partisans admitted that they read anti-Alliance papers but they claimed their papers were less pro-Conservative than Conservative partisans ' papers and less pro-Labour than Labour partisans ' papers ( Table 6.6 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ But they showed their ankles ! ’ |
| 23 | Hereford 's away day to the seaside started promisingly , but they missed their chances and ended up at all at sea . |
| 24 | Pitt had been a critic of both the principle of deduction at source and the rescheduling , but they proved their worth and he retained them when it was his turn to present a budget in 1805 . |
| 25 | AN ICY reception awaited the Soviet Union touring side at Aspatria last night , but they did their reputation no harm by providing a stern test . |
| 26 | None was as close as Ewan had been , but they did their best , bringing him the gossip , chattering , urging him to rise , to dress , to come out , come down and eat his dinner with the other folk . |
| 27 | But they sweetened their reign of fear with occasional favours and a glaze of authority that went a long way in communities accustomed to neither . |
| 28 | These tribes had been conquered by the Franks and forced into Christianity , but they retained their own kingship or leaders , and were not tightly bound to the Frankish throne in terms of direct government . |
| 29 | The Aborigines had suffered at the hands of the sealers — many of the women were kidnapped and put to work plucking birds for the feather trade — but they retained their custom of a spontaneous welcome for anyone who put into port on the island . |
| 30 | Colonial merchants might not like the English monopoly of trade , but they wanted their markets in England , so there was unlikely to be opposition to the general principles of the Acts of Trade . |