Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] they [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But back Northampton went and though they held the first Nottingham surge they could not stop the second and scrum-half Hughes dived over on the left to score a try which earned a standing ovation . |
| 32 | but if they get the upper hand , and if they think they can start er dictating , then they will , alright ? |
| 33 | But if they challenge the bureaucratic-military oligarchy for dominance , they are likely to be confronted by a coup d'état . |
| 34 | Perhaps such interpretations are intriguing not so much because of their rather desperate commitment to the metaphysical primacy of heterosexual genital intercourse — that is merely banal — but because they reveal the tortured cultural and psychic logic which that commitment entails . |
| 35 | Our own genes cooperate with one another , not because they are our own but because they share the same outlet — sperm or egg — into the future . |
| 36 | But since they put the token meter in , I 've just found they 're charging me nine pound for token meter as well as the meter ! |
| 37 | But before they reached the other side , Caesar cried out to Cassius for help , so Cassius had to carry him to safety . |
| 38 | Father had the job , but when they built the new outfall on the other side of town we stayed on here . |
| 39 | But as they cuddled the dead baby they realised that it was n't their child . |
| 40 | but whether that meets what the government expects of us I 'm not exactly sure because whether they want the written report at the sa |
| 41 | I 've got a a a well I got a new cooker had a have a new cooker because when they took the old one out it was already in seven separate pieces ! |
| 42 | I 'm very pleased that not a single motorist follows his advice , since if they did the old Hebridean tradition of driving on to the moors would spread to the mainland . |
| 43 | The work of Hume , Kant and Lessing was to be of especial significance for theology ; for while they undermined the earlier kind of rationalism by restricting the claims and powers of reason and pointing to the sheer variety and diversity of history , they raised equally sharp questions for theologians . |
| 44 | Often , too , the paths rose and fell over undulating ground and writhed among the trees with little reason as though they followed the casual waywardness of game tracks . |
| 45 | A frequent fault is to read out passages from textbooks as though they represented the last word on the law . |