Example sentences of "but they [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | God knows what happened to the family they found us with , but they took us to a place called Fresnes gaol , Paris . |
| 2 | But they saw nothing except a field-mouse , which came out of its hole and began furricking in a patch of seeded grasses . |
| 3 | But they started him on a new course of treatment yesterday and he 's begun to respond . ’ |
| 4 | Yeah but they treat you as a skivvy . |
| 5 | Of course the Scandinavians have been skiing for about 4,500 years , but they used it as a means of travelling across country , not as an activity in itself , that has only happened in the last hundred years . |
| 6 | Our high-rise flats were based on Scandinavian flats , but they build them to a much higher standard . |
| 7 | Both leaders admitted that several issues remained unresolved by the treaty , but they described it as a good basis for the development of future bilateral relations . |