Example sentences of "but they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The footsteps went down , past the kitchen , into the shop ; she thought they might vanish altogether but they shortly returned , accompanied by a padding , clicking sound , paws on linoleum . |
| 2 | This was charming , no doubt : but they shortly found out |
| 3 | But they immediately ran into criticism from the NRPB about how thorough the survey should be . |
| 4 | For the last six days they had clung to hope , but they finally felt it pulling away from them — the miracle they wanted just did not happen . |
| 5 | They 'd had a a lot of trouble er difficulty in getting hold of him and but they finally got him today and |
| 6 | It took several minutes but they finally boarded the train , fought their way down the corridor and collapsed into the relative calm of a first-class carriage . |
| 7 | Some of the theories would have made Balzac blush , but they finally decided I 'd been sleeping with Laura , her husband had beaten me up in a dark alley , and now I was on my way to kill him . |
| 8 | Animals also have tensions when they are in activity , but they instinctively know how to relax . |
| 9 | The five million crimes recorded in Britain last year suggest serious social disorder , but they scarcely figured in the election . |
| 10 | But they scarcely constitute a full toolkit for the 21st century . |
| 11 | A world-wide protest movement tried to prevent their execution , but they eventually went to the electric chair in 1927 . |
| 12 | The series was tight and there were many close matches which could have gone either way but they eventually went in the American 's favour . |
| 13 | A couple survived and went on up my leg , but they eventually fizzled out . |
| 14 | The fledgling Twist were a lot more lightweight and bubblegum in style , recruiting Martin Fry 's brother , Jamie , on vocals but they eventually returned to Manchester where they dawdled around in their own faffing style and managed to emerge after all the Mancs fuss was over . |
| 15 | The fledgling Twist were a lot more lightweight and bubblegum in style , recruiting Martin Fry 's brother , Jamie , on vocals but they eventually returned to Manchester where they dawdled around in their own faffing style and managed to emerge after all the Mancs fuss was over . |
| 16 | But they vehemently oppose the kind of expenditure that helps the underclass . |
| 17 | This controversy could in principle have been resolved if the Electricity Boards had had effective knowledge of their own costs in meeting specific loads , but they conspicuously failed to develop and use the research necessary to establish this . |
| 18 | which I asked if they would stay , but they altogether refused , and seeing that they refused I did not hinder them to go , for I will press no man . |
| 19 | ‘ But they not see him go out , ’ interrupts Jancey . |
| 20 | But they not see Darius because he not been in since five o'clock . |
| 21 | But they flatly refused to relinquish their grip on power . |
| 22 | But they flatly refused to relinquish their grip on power . |
| 23 | Maud and Enid were the obvious people to ask but they flatly refused . |
| 24 | Of course , these statistics are crude , but they strongly suggest a world in which war may often have seemed prohibitively expensive , especially once it came to be realised that Æthelred 's military operations tended to be unsuccessful . |
| 25 | But they completely accepted that human history is purposeful or ‘ teleological ’ ( Lowith , 1949 ) , moving dialectically but ineluctably towards an end-point where social conflicts are completely eradicated by the arrival in power of a universal class . |
| 26 | Well yeah , alright yeah but they normally get out do n't they ? |
| 27 | Erm yes but they normally receive their erm |
| 28 | The proportion of these trace elements in the fertiliser pellets will vary significantly from one wine region to another , but they normally include one or more of the following : iron , indispensable for photosynthesis ( plants lacking sufficient iron salts suffer from chlorosis ) ; magnesium , the only mineral constituent of the chlorophyll molecule ( lack of magnesium also causes chlorosis ) ; and copper , zinc and boron , which are important for the overall metabolism of the vine . |
| 29 | It surprised him that he was not drawn into conversation with the two at his table , but they evidently spoke only to their own . |
| 30 | None of Gould 's answers has survived , but they clearly fell well short of Lear 's hopes . |