Example sentences of "but [conj] they [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not mean that the person needs necessarily to go faster , but that they organize their time more effectively . |
| 2 | A spokesman for the club said yesterday that the players realised the serious nature of their action , but that they wanted their fate in their own hands . |
| 3 | that 's true but and they like their cup of tea they 've never had a cup of tea |
| 4 | But if they follow their usual form they will do nothing , because they are prepared to accept medieval barbarity rather than strain trade relations . ’ |
| 5 | But if they changed their portfolio balance , they would have lost out on this upturn , ’ said . |
| 6 | Visits by RCM workers were liable to be resented by foster parents — not necessarily because they had anything to hide , but because they felt their housekeeping and parental capabilities were being questioned . |
| 7 | And I did build their amps virtually identically , but because they use their own types of guitar and their own different effects , the amps all sounded different . |
| 8 | These are regarded as ‘ transitional substances ’ that could help wean the world off its dependence on CFCs , but since they have their ozone-depleting potential ( albeit low ) the protocol will probably be extended to ban them early next century . |
| 9 | They 're all overjoyed about it , but before they make their plans and get the sales force excited , they want to be … quite sure … that you are … completely fit . ’ |
| 10 | But when they take their first flight into the outside world , their losses begin . |
| 11 | But when they booked their new car into Tristar Motors for its first service , they found their old model waiting for them . |
| 12 | The Chagga of Kilimanjaro were perhaps the group most fiercely opposed to the increased use of Swahili , but when they elected their paramount chief in the early 1950s they were unable to agree on which of the Chagga dialects to adopt as their common language , and they , too , adopted Swahili . |
| 13 | But as they made their way towards the camp he had spoken only to point out signs of bird and animal life that he thought might interest her ; in the mud at the riverside , he showed her the pug mark of a tiger that had drunk there the previous evening and at another point on the trail he drew her attention to torn-up grasses and leafless trees that marked the passing of a herd of elephant . |
| 14 | But as they made their getaway the gang crashed into a lorry , and then panicked hijacking four cars at gunpoint , and opening fire on police . |
| 15 | But as they checked their tiny forces — a hundred or so ashore — the first German Stosstruppen , Thrust Troops , were moving into the docks over the bridges of the submarines ' basin 's southern lock ( 'D' ) at 0150 hours . |