Example sentences of "but they [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discount houses agreed to abandon their collectively agreed price for the weekly Treasury bill issue , but they would continue to apply for a quantity of bills sufficient to cover the tender . |
| 2 | We 've had some discussion with the College to seek to resolve this , and the proposals erm , are set out in paragraph four , three , er , in that it would mean that the College would not take over the ownership of the site , er , and it , but , but they would continue to occupy their part of the site er , effectively rent free from the County Council , but if , at any time , they decided they , the College wanted to move away from the site , it would revert to the County Council , it would n't actually become a College asset . |
| 3 | Many Christians would admit freely that , at times , the Church does give this impression , but they would stress that it is a false impression and has little to do with what Christianity is all about . |
| 4 | But they would kick your head in if you spilt their pint just the same . |
| 5 | If a manager had indifferent or poor leadership qualities his subordinates would still do their job , but they would do it ineffectually or perhaps in a confused manner . |
| 6 | They 're not perfect but they would do . |
| 7 | But they would do cleaning just cleaning , the County Council will , though it has n't got the people to do it . |
| 8 | She could have , Lucinda realized , but they would think her a little mad if she did . |
| 9 | But they would fetch 'em and pay for them , and I even today , you can not buy love . |
| 10 | Not only do the Opposition always seek to make the worst of the figures , but they would make the figures very much worse if they ever had the opportunity to put their disastrous policies into effect . |
| 11 | They might not avail to get Harry out of his prison , but they would make it extremely awkward for Isambard to remove him quietly from the world afterwards . |
| 12 | But they would involve considerable changes for taxpayers , tax advisers and the Inland Revenue . |
| 13 | When they had sort it out they just did n't know but they would go you know prancing around saying to one another saying then . |
| 14 | Er and if if they would work they did n't want money for it but they would stay a while with you so that they would get their bed for the night and they would get their grub . |
| 15 | They were trying to wear him down , but they would fail ; he would find the Key , he would find the Way Out and escape from this joke , this awful solitary confinement for Heroes ; he would leave them all behind and take his rightful place in the greater reality again . |
| 16 | But they would tell you all the time that oh I do n't need to advertise |
| 17 | The snaps these machines took never portrayed her at her best , but they would give the general impression . |
| 18 | Whether the Bedford health authorities did not like this , I shall not know , but they would give me no help at all . |
| 19 | Part of the LEATGS grant might for example , be delegated for schools to administer , but they would have to spend it for the specified purpose of in-service training . |
| 20 | A more practical idea would be to fix filters to car exhausts , but they would have to be changed fairly frequently . |
| 21 | Yes , but they would have failed anyway . |
| 22 | There , I would be just as much a stranger , but they would have to define themselves against me as natives against incomers , or in terms of social classification . |
| 23 | A British official said : ‘ These all may seem very petty , but they would have very adverse consequences for voluntary bodies . ’ |
| 24 | Her family survived the war in the occupied Dutch city of Arnhem , but they would have gone hungry as the Nazis retreated without the help of international aid groups . |
| 25 | Previously , my close relationships would have been with people where we would perhaps be living together or just lovers , but they would have been quite explicit that they would have been non-monogamous . |
| 26 | Before the war at a luncheon party like this people would have said precisely the same things but they would have sounded different , because in those days they were accompanied by a sort of humming noise , not articulate , but musical , exciting , which changed the value of the words themselves … |
| 27 | Should have worn gloves because they would have protected his hands , but they would have denied him the freedom of movement that he now needed . |
| 28 | The British theatrical Establishment who thought he aspired to be their new idol would be puzzled over ‘ All I wanted to do was to live ’ — but they would have let it pass as a Welsh eccentricity ; ‘ to act at the Old Vic ’ would have drawn beams of approval . |
| 29 | But they would have had to pass through all those last months with me . |
| 30 | But they would have met when both the Tallentire brothers became ill and died and some thing had to be done about the farming land that went with Aunt Bessie 's house at Low Fields . |