Example sentences of "they but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after the point at which the recital ends , sand was to cover some more helicopters — those sent by President Carter to liberate the American hostages seized in Teheran , where Kapuscinski catches a glimpse not of them but of their place of confinement . |
| 2 | Spectacles are not allowed , so if you ca n't see well enough without them but want to compete anyway you should either get a pair of soft contact lenses or see how you manage without glasses . |
| 3 | His dreams had come back after many nights which had seemed as empty as death , dreams of walking between high hedges , it was daylight on the other side of them but gloaming where he was and thick earth rose up to his knees , to his waist , stopping him , he tried to open his mouth but his jaw-bones jammed , he was choking … |
| 4 | I could understand them but Daddy could n't . |
| 5 | I slept on the bed with them but they kept falling out , so they bought another bed , for themselves . |
| 6 | For myself , middle-aged and of a generally conservative disposition , I regret these changes , in particular the depreciation of the Anglo-Welsh occasions : not only because there are fewer of them but also because the clubs now tend to field their second XVs . |
| 7 | Flaubert , who visited the island in 1847 , got lost in these deserted , deceptively placid fields , of which he wrote : ‘ One would have said that all those who owned them profited from them but did not like them . ’ |
| 8 | I rehearse these arguments not in an attempt to settle them but for the purpose of casting doubt upon the thesis that the performance of the economy is at the crux of the Government 's difficulties . |
| 9 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 10 | The nonconformists noted that he did not unchurch them but were not happy with his plea that they recognize bishops to be essential to the Church . |
| 11 | Everyone laughs , not at them but with them . |
| 12 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 13 | He really does want to fill the universe with a lot of loathsome little replicas of Himself — creatures whose life , on its miniature scale , will be qualitatively like His own , not because He has absorbed them but because their wills freely conform to His . |
| 14 | The British commander who has to bring his team through the desert in Ice Cold in Alex ( 1958 ) seems hysterical and incompetent by comparison with the Dutch South African who accompanies them but is working for the Germans ; and the message of Ealing 's Dunkirk ( 1958 ) is summarized in one character 's closing statement , ‘ Somebody 's made a muck of it but I do n't think it 's the army . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I did write to them but I was just snubbed . ’ |
| 16 | There will be moves to tighten up this part of the bill in the Commons to try to stop some of the waste imports from countries which can dispose of them but find it politically expedient to export them . |
| 17 | Asked whether he is now used to confrontations , he said : ‘ I hate them but they seem to come my way . |
| 18 | Lee did n't take them but he closed his mouth and there was no sound . |
| 19 | He agreed to pay them but told Gina she must give some Italian lessons or something in future if she wanted to treat herself to things like that . |
| 20 | ‘ Councils are supposed to provide sites for them but they do n't , ’ I protested , feeling a sudden sympathy for an oppressed minority . |
| 21 | As this wall faces north the sun seldom shines on any of these , a dismal fact for gardeners working in them but usual for old kitchen gardens where every inch of warm south-facing ground was wanted for crops . |
| 22 | Cold , as a rule , does n't bother them but they will not tolerate prolonged wetness , particularly during the winter . |
| 23 | I would like green eyes if I could have them but it 's just a passing thought , not a real obsession . |
| 24 | Officials were trying to move them but after a word with our security people , we allowed them to stay . |
| 25 | I can not be 100 per cent sure the girls did not manipulate them but you have to be 100 per cent sure that they did it before you can ban a person for four years . |
| 26 | He knows that the real purpose of these television interviews is not to enlighten the people who actually watch them but to supply short quotes and sound-bites for the news programmes and the tabloids . |
| 27 | Discriminatory and punitive rates , like Mr Smith 's 59 per cent , not only put many of the most agile brains in the country to work to find ways of avoiding them but create a profound disinclination to work harder or take risks when you have to give nearly 60 per cent of it to the Government . |
| 28 | Financial Times publisher Pearson was among them but snubbed the downward trend with the help of continuing good feelings in the market about BSkyB , in which it has a stake . |
| 29 | There are a lot of people looking at potential deals and analysing them but not necessarily announcing them . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We will not examine all of them but we will take random samples and check to see if anyone who has registered for gross interest also has a file at one of our tax offices — which they should not normally have as only non-taxpayers should be registered for gross interest . |