Example sentences of "but they have [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they had to return because an emergency fund from the Royal Society , which paid their bills , ran out . |
| 2 | Both Rennenkampf and Samsonov had distinguished military records as cavalry commanders in Manchuria , but they had quarrelled and become bitter enemies . |
| 3 | It was crossing their minds that it might be safer to leave him in the car , but they had to consider whether they could trust him not to steal it . |
| 4 | He says that the police were not chasing the car , but they had spotted that it was stolen . |
| 5 | but they 've said that in the end |
| 6 | Sorry , the only one I eh , I eh got this idea was when I first took this up I went into the hut in the town , and I picked up the booklets , you know that they have on the counter , and in one of these booklets it had that the vet 's were now I do n't know what I 'm , I 'm very lost for everything like this , but they 've kept and therefore if your animal needed , your pet needed treatment it would be done by the private vet 's and eh , mon the money would be re would be reclaimed by the vet from the R S P C A , and I think that gave to erm . |
| 7 | They 're not a target of the war-ing factions , but they have to duck and dive to avoid the cross fire . |
| 8 | Most of my guests enjoy their fame , but they have discovered that , enjoyable though the trappings of celebrity may be , there is a price to be paid |
| 9 | But they have realised that there may be no safe national niches in the looming common European capital market , so each sooner rather than later tries to enhance turnover by introducing euro or international contracts . |
| 10 | Proposals have been made to replace the outmoded apprenticeship system by a proper training course , but they have foundered because no one is willing to put up the funds . |
| 11 | The children have to learn footwork , shadow boxing , and sparring and are encouraged to thump every ounce of their energy into punch bags but they have to wait until they are 11-years-old before they are allowed a real fight . |
| 12 | But they have said that the latest drug craze , involving the painkiller ketamine , has yet to reach the North-East . |
| 13 | It 's about a hundred miles from Vitez to Split but they have to cross and recross the front lines in a war that 's unpredictable . |
| 14 | but they have found that in a lot of cases that the bones starts growing so therefore , when you 're in your late teens , twenties , maturing your bottom jaw is growing out from the rest of your jaw bone . |
| 15 | Even some like-minded philosophers ( Mackie , 1974 , Ch. 2 ; Sanford , 1985 ) have been ready enough to take it that if c caused e in an ordinary situation then it is true , as we have it in ( 1 ) , that if c had n't occurred , neither would e , but they have omitted or denied what we now have in ( 3 ) , that it is also true that if or since c occurred , so did e . |
| 16 | But they have agreed that no action is needed because the royals only spend the summer at Balmoral Castle . |
| 17 | permission from the Association of Northern Ireland Car Clubs to opt out of the NI championship for one year only , but they have agreed and so will be running the event for vintage , historic and class cars only , ’ says William Heaney of the TSCC . |
| 18 | But they have proved that with a good plan , persistence and a lot of hard work even a very steep slope can be transformed into a tremendous garden . |
| 19 | Whether the Japanese will eventually be able to use solar energy to obtain metals from the sea remains to be seen , but they have proved that it is possible for copper at least . |
| 20 | ‘ Their target for 1992–93 is six sales but they have proved that to be an underestimate of their potential , having achieved five sales so far , ’ said Anne . |