Example sentences of "of [pron] but they " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were usually billed as the star attraction so John obviously made a good profit out of them but they were still paid at the same rate as all his juveniles , five shillings a week . |
| 2 | There were not many of them but they made an impact on the Congress that was quite out of proportion to their small numbers . |
| 3 | I am not myself wholeheartedly committed to any of them but they deserve our attention . |
| 4 | Okay so they , they know what 's expected of them but they would without having had the practice or the experience |
| 5 | Only five of them but they were brilliant ! |
| 6 | In fact I 'll give my neighbours who live opposite , I do n't see a lot of them but they they are my opposite neighbours and of course the 's really I 'm on good terms with I ought to give them I 'll get them a tin of biscuits as well . |
| 7 | Um , as we know from studies of re story telling , as we know from studies of memories for story structure and recall , memories for everyday events mm there 's er a substantial way in which memories are scripted , which memories um seem to fit a schemer , which memories ah are n't stored as a literal description of something but they 're something that we re-construct as we tell them . |
| 8 | They 're ashamed of themselves but they 're afraid to admit it . |
| 9 | These things mean something different to each one of us but they are central to the culture as a whole and central to our knowledge and fantasies about our own bodies . |