Example sentences of "but they [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to marshal her thoughts , but they skittered wildly . |
| 2 | Its criti-cisms could easily be dubbed ‘ elitist ’ ( not in fact a vogue word at that time ) , but they boiled down to the traditional media dilemma about how far people know what they ‘ want ’ until they have been shown choices beyond their existing experience . |
| 3 | The imperial eagle and the personification of Victory are obvious examples of symbols of imperial power , but they turn up with surprising frequency upon ornamental furniture , lamps and , most notably , 15 funerary monuments . |
| 4 | But they turn out to be of Ancient History , so the flies blunder moodily against the parlour window beyond which the June sun ripens tempting dinners at roadsides and down by the strong-smelling beach ; day after day after day . |
| 5 | But they turn out clouded , unwanted |
| 6 | We engage a party of girls in conversation on the subject , but they turn out to have no interest in football ( one is a Tottenham Hotspur supporter ) , and they leave hurriedly . |
| 7 | Eventually they are turned to stone , but they retain not only the outward shape that they had in life , albeit sometimes distorted , but on occasion even their detailed cellular structure is preserved so that you can look at sections of them through the microscope and plot the shape of the blood vessels and the nerves that once surrounded them . |
| 8 | As members of the EEC , Britain and France have common tariff policies , but they retain quite distinct policies regarding non-tariff barriers . |
| 9 | These disbursements do not worry the senior partner in a large firm who makes £40,000 or more a year net , but they fall heavily upon the less successful . |
| 10 | Plainly , the figures are impressive but they fall far short of the early hopes that computing might have a pervasive influence on school education . |
| 11 | But they raise again the issue of how one assesses the importance of different forms of organization within an economy and society , and especially in what sense , and when , it is possible to say that a particular form of organization dominates a system . |
| 12 | But they thought better of it . |
| 13 | Progress was unavoidably slow but they set up and directed most of the subversive organisations . |
| 14 | But they set out for the Town Hall none the less . |
| 15 | But they set off in April — and forgot to tell the town hall . |
| 16 | These tremendous images … are not the whole of Christ 's teaching , but they set forth the supernatural mystery which is the heart of the teaching … . |
| 17 | Creggan took flight into the air but they made straight for him . |
| 18 | But they made not the least reply . |
| 19 | In low-income developing countries , the achievement of a fairly high rate of economic growth and some expansion of the industrial infrastructure are clearly of great importance , but they depend heavily , as I have argued , upon international conditions with respect to trade and aid . |
| 20 | United nearly drew first blood , but they fell apart in the second half . |
| 21 | I used to have some white friends at school but they fell away . |
| 22 | But they fell away and Schmeichel turned a fierce shot from Micky Adams against the outside of a post , and substitute Nicky Banger sent a tremendous shot from long range past the post with the goalkeeper beaten . |
| 23 | City were well in contention when Jon Bland kicked a penalty to make it 6–3 but they fell away badly in the second half . |
| 24 | People embrace him as an all-conquering hero , but they miss out the fact that a lot of native Americans were butchered along the way before old Whitey took over the country . |
| 25 | Some of the old girls drank , but they knew when to keep their mouths shut . |
| 26 | But they knew too little about him and what they knew was bewildering . |
| 27 | Denis made threatening noises , but they knew better than to take him seriously . |
| 28 | We get people on the programme singing and dancing so badly it 's painful , but they come back the next week and tell us that everyone 's stopping them in the streets to congratulate them , not slag them off . ’ |
| 29 | They concede that municipal monopoly of schooling has let down generations but they come back with ideas that seem to me to be sensible and subtle but also politically popular . |
| 30 | ‘ They are not in the same cells , but they come together in the trucks going to court and in the exercise yard where they are often subject to physical and sexual abuse , ’ he said . |