Example sentences of "but [prep] [noun] they " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The T'ang 's words were a harmless play on the name of the Longjing ch'a , but for Ben they seemed to hold a special meaning . |
| 2 | To some they 're simply an engaging fantasy , but for others they create a secret world that can last a lifetime . |
| 3 | It 's ideal for birds with the high frequency voice , but for people they the speech is a bit lower in frequency and does n't work quite so well . |
| 4 | It is recognised that there is no rigid division between these categories ( the library and photographic services are used both internally and externally , for example ) , but for convenience they have been dealt with separately in this Report . |
| 5 | Baku 's military commanders had closed the city to all non-residents from Sept. 26 to Oct. 2 , but during polling they had kept troops out of sight . |
| 6 | But after October they rapidly became disillusioned with their erstwhile allies . |
| 7 | In the morning Ballesteros and Olazabal could have been cast as villains but after lunch they were to produce some irrepressible form . |
| 8 | The Americans could take this a little further , but after Schweinfurt they had to stop and lick their wounds ; and so this leads on to the inevitable topic when I am confronted with the audiences I meet in all those places . |
| 9 | ‘ They do n't cost British industry or taxpayers a thing , but of course they take all their expertise abroad . |
| 10 | Bob went on from there , season in , season out , to the end of 1931–32 , by which time he had made 293 League appearances for Crystal Palace ( a club record at the time , but of course they did not make much of such things in those days ) and even today , almost 60 years later , there are fewer than only half a dozen Palace men who have played more times for us than that . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , that 's a good start ! ’ she thought , looking around in the hope that someone had witnessed so successful a landing , but of course they had n't . |
| 12 | But of course they each depend upon the existence of individuals who carry out the tasks necessary for the survival and perpetuation of society . |
| 13 | But of course they are quite different by their very nature . |
| 14 | But of course they did not circulate beyond the commuter belt , so they failed to qualify as nationals on that ground . |
| 15 | Reductions in factor prices do not then engender changing factor proportions , but of course they do reduce costs . |
| 16 | She said she liked to think that the younger women looked on her as a mother , but of course they did n't : they found her faintly ridiculous , old-fashioned , gullible , naive . |
| 17 | But of course they had n't found me anywhere to live . |
| 18 | Fish Sparks , who 's been a bit down in the mouth since we rumbled his story , thought it was terrifically funny to start calling the Indians things like Sitting Bull and Tonto , but of course they did n't understand and anyway the rest of us sort of froze him out . |
| 19 | But of course they were quoting at the very top of Leamington 's rate , and since then it 's gone right down . |
| 20 | In Example 71 the two lower voices have ‘ clanging ’ motifs which evoke the atmosphere of the blacksmith 's forge : Here the ostinatos are unchanging pedal notes , but of course they could be recurring musical designs with changing harmonic potential to give them both a structural and an emotional purpose . |
| 21 | Chords based on whole-tones can occur in many other systems , even in diatonic harmony ( e.g. the ninth chord G , B , F , A ) , but of course they sound perfectly in place and not as if they have merely been temporarily extracted from the whole-tone system . |
| 22 | The present book does not pretend to do more than help students to lay some of the foundations of scoring methods , but of course they should be encouraged to keep abreast of all fruitful developments that take place . |
| 23 | Erm but of course they did other work you know , which was of a general character . |
| 24 | No well we used to kill them with a stick but of course they used to lay the rabbits out at that time to see how many they caught cos that was a little bit of perks for the farm labourers they used to buy a rabbit for sixpence , then they go up to ninepence for a rabbit . |
| 25 | Yes , they had been neighbours in Shrewsbury , but of course they had only seen each other during the school holidays , and of course they had n't made friends over some grotty little terrace-house garden fence ; he 'd first noticed her from the tree house in his parents ' garden while she was learning to ride her new pony in her parents ' ten acres of mature woodland and well-kept pasture . |
| 26 | But of course they could n't have just left a possible murder weapon on the altar with their fingerprints all over it . |
| 27 | But of course they 'll both emerge somewhere . |
| 28 | I suppose you do n't need to like us old people , ’ and entered into detailed descriptions of the state of their bladders and allied organs , and operations ; and then the jokes and the guffaws and laughter and the pokings and teasing turned to sexual matters , and Philippa felt ashamed for them , these shrivelled old dames , with dazzling movable white teeth , among them some whom surgery permitted to continue without wombs , without breasts , so gloating on the idea of dicks and holes and hairy entrances and moist lips , and cheeks and cracks , and their skinny stiff twisted hands , the thought of them pawing and patting revolted her , but of course they wanted to touch her , her shining hair , her firm face , her lovely arms . |
| 29 | It suggested that they shared some sort of secret , but of course they did n't , and when he rose and drained the last mouthful of his second cup of coffee before placing the delicate china cup back in its saucer she could only follow his lead , feeling certain that the relaxed mood was broken . |
| 30 | After a time the others go off to search for ‘ Smee ’ — but of course they do n't know who they are looking for . |