Example sentences of "but they [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They felt entitled to , and duly received , the customary genuflections that were accorded to their rank , but they belonged to the local ‘ house ’ rather than to the village . |
| 2 | But they belonged to my brother . |
| 3 | He had held out his arms , but they fell to his side , because she stood still in the doorway . |
| 4 | He tried to knock some aside but they clung to his fingers and a spider danced across his knuckles and disappeared up his sleeve . |
| 5 | Lyn was up 7–1 ( ! ) to Brann away and looked to have saved themselves with three minutes to go — but they relaxed to early and got two late , late goals against them and thus won 7–3 , a goal to little and was relegated . |
| 6 | A different one every week but they had to be believable . |
| 7 | Life was hell for unsuccessful acts ; not only did the performers have to put up with heckling and catcalls but they had to be agile enough to duck the rotten eggs and fruit thrown by a disgruntled audience . |
| 8 | The various houses hid as much Champagne as they dared by sealing up some of their cellars , but they had to be very careful not to attract attention . |
| 9 | The three cars on the Crystal Palace route were sold to Cohen 's at Thornton Heath depôt on 12 October 1935 and were to be broken up at Hampstead depôt , but they had to be held back until Crystal Palace route closed belatedly on 8 February 1936 , when presumably they were broken up in Penge depôt with the South Metropolitan cars . |
| 10 | But they had to be cheap . |
| 11 | It 's the only time there were ever arguments over scripts , but they had to be said . |
| 12 | But they had to be humoured before they could be diverted from the unobtainable to the treasure that was actually for sale . |
| 13 | But they had to be , she knew , or the relationship would destroy them . |
| 14 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
| 15 | wh I remember that when I was at home it was a mixed sort of meeting in which some of the people from the village were coming who you did n't really know but they had to be asked |
| 16 | The crows avoided the central green eggs , but they shifted to nearby wheatfields rather than travelling to the white eggs . |
| 17 | Other cottagers the teacher from Glasgow visited gave him a proof of their kindness ; they presented him with a large basin of milk : he took a drink of it , and would have left the remainder , but they signalled to him to drink it all , and the old man stood opposite the door to prevent his getting away till he was obliged , in answer to Gaelic gesticulations , to drink all the milk that was in the basin . |
| 18 | The old man said they were love songs he had written when young , but they seemed to be by Robert Burns as far as Nigel could remember . |
| 19 | But they seemed to be working normally — quite normally . |
| 20 | Probably were n't I do n't know but they seemed to us I may be looking at it from a child 's eyes but er that 's how they seemed to be to me . |
| 21 | Erm but they seemed to be there for a specific purpose , but the normal day to day |
| 22 | The three bassets were already in residence , draped snoring on the fireside rug , but they seemed to be used to Debbie because two of them sniffed her in a bored manner and the third merely cocked a sleepy eye at her before flopping back on the rich pile . |
| 23 | Those dark eyes had softened considerably , but they seemed to be boring into her and she had a ridiculous urge to duck her head . |
| 24 | Nevil was holding the passenger door open for Jo but they seemed to be arguing . |
| 25 | There are loads of Leed supporters in Goole but they seemed to be more i interested in the young kids chucking themselves in the water jump on the running track which was right by the pitch ! |
| 26 | but they seemed to , yes they went better than I |
| 27 | But they lied to me and I had to do it in English . |
| 28 | They never did ring it but they meant to . |
| 29 | But they said to us on that night ‘ unless we have the full £150,000 for the seven performances we 've done and the eighth which we are about to do we wo n't go on . ’ |
| 30 | Under ordinary circumstances he might have got the second but they responded to his aggression with speed and efficiency , bottling him up again with a hail of bullets — bullets fired from very close range . |