Example sentences of "but they [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually they are turned to stone , but they retain not only the outward shape that they had in life , albeit sometimes distorted , but on occasion even their detailed cellular structure is preserved so that you can look at sections of them through the microscope and plot the shape of the blood vessels and the nerves that once surrounded them . |
| 2 | But they made not the least reply . |
| 3 | But they win not because they can play chess , which they can not , but because they can beat humans . |
| 4 | But they had n't done any harm . |
| 5 | The clerk behind the hatch asked for their empties before she 'd hand over the new bottles but they had n't got them . |
| 6 | I had seen newspaper photos of him since his release from the psikhushka , but they had n't prepared me for his gauntness , pallor , baldness . |
| 7 | M. B. The Federation helped us but they had n't any teeth . |
| 8 | He had already put out feelers with local employers but they had n't been too keen on employing a well-known agitator ; even those who seemed sympathetic to the anti-nuclear cause did n't actually have work on offer . |
| 9 | So I turned on the TV to find the news , but they had n't found out who had been on board yet |
| 10 | He paled for an instant , thinking perhaps that his socks had slid down , but they had n't . |
| 11 | Benny heard from Patsy that the Healys had been up to Dublin to look for a child to adopt but they had n't got one because Mr Healy had a weak chest . |
| 12 | But they had n't known that then , and if they had could not have known how much one day such postcards would have supported the story Adam was beginning to think he would tell . |
| 13 | There were the initials GWE/BW typed at the top of the letter but they had n't helped . |
| 14 | Marseille 's foreign stars , Croat Alen Boksic and German international Rudi Voeller had earlier fired the Frenchmen into what looked an unassailable lead , but they had n't counted on Rangers ' indomitable spirit . |
| 15 | But they had n't considered the rest of the poem , which was the ultimate feminist statement . |
| 16 | St Matthew 's had liaised with the Refuge about Harry but they had n't known what to suggest . |
| 17 | They 'd stretched him , but they had n't snapped him . |
| 18 | But they had n't conceived him as a duty , merely to increase the number of Imperials on the planet . |
| 19 | In interview , the head of science offered these illuminating insights into the way the library project had stimulated book awareness and book selection among staff in his department : A lot of the time teachers did n't know what was available and said " The science shelf is over there " , but they had n't actually looked at the titles of the books before … they were quite pleasantly surprised . |
| 20 | But they had n't been near enough . |
| 21 | But they had n't . |
| 22 | It was old news , but they had n't seen each other to talk of it . |
| 23 | But they had n't been made at Fords , they 'd been made in a subsidiary , taken up the road on long trailers , taken off the trailer onto the assembly conveyor , which er crawls round the assembly line and fitted like that . |
| 24 | The line of islanders was entrenched behind burning shrubs on the bank of the stream , at the point where the stockade was indeed vulnerable , but they had n't penetrated beyond it , though they had inflicted damage on the settlement 's defenders . |
| 25 | Oh , they 'd been polite , made him welcome , but they had n't trusted him . |
| 26 | Do you er did but they had n't built a ship in Porthmadog since nineteen thirteen . |
| 27 | Cos there were a lot of losses of course o in after the convoys had been introduced for the ocean thing but they had n't introduced convoys for inshore . |
| 28 | But they had n't finished . ’ |
| 29 | But they had n't got the backup of erm like th the regulator appointed . |
| 30 | But they had n't been born then . ’ |