Example sentences of "but [conj] they [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not that such people are necessarily ‘ inadequate ’ , but that they feel themselves to be inadequate . |
| 2 | The point about studies on non-human animals is not that they replace studies on humans but that they provide us with pointers to what we should study in people and how we should study it . |
| 3 | But if they suspected you of double-crossing them , that could be a different story . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not going to worry about it now , ’ said Pam , resolutely , ‘ but if they leave it like last time , I 'll kill them . ’ |
| 5 | Stories are recorded not simply because they happened , but because they reveal something of God and his activity in the world . |
| 6 | But my strongest surviving impression is of a large team of teachers , several of them coming specifically to Banbury to undertake this work and now scattered in headships across the country , determined to carry change through — not because it was imposed by politicians or bureaucrats , but because they believed it to be right and wanted it to work well . |
| 7 | Hincmar puts in a significant phrase when he says that the minores who " confirmed " assembly-decisions did so " not because they were forced to do so , but because they understood them in their own minds and agreed with them " . |
| 8 | But whether they do it on a Saturday I do n't know . |
| 9 | I mean I could choose not to do an album , but when they asked me to an album that was exciting to say yes . |
| 10 | But when they teach it at school that 's wrong . |
| 11 | Young albatrosses on the Leeward Islands spend many days flapping their wings to exercise their muscles and develop their strength , but when they launch themselves into the air , they have to get it right first time . |
| 12 | But when they turned him over there was a sound like a fart and all his insides had sicked out , bits that were n't meant to be seen and which God accordingly had n't bothered to finish off like the rest . |
| 13 | The New Party made some members when they started , but when they turned themselves into the Fascist Party er they they rid of themselves of many of these er New Party peop , was in the New Party you know . |
| 14 | Painting was to become intellectual , and the painters would depict the world not as they saw it , but as they knew it to be . |
| 15 | But as they seized her by the mantle , she shook it from her shoulders , folded two of her children in her arms and floated away through a window , never more to be seen by her husband and the two children she had left behind . |