Example sentences of "but [adj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | they take more petrol , but servicing-wise they do n't require as much |
| 2 | We may hold them again at a price a hundred times their worth to us , for a few months , a few years at a pinch , but French they will still be , and in the end we must leave go of them . |
| 3 | They wanted the horses most , we saw but three they already had with them , the rest forced to go afoot , and the wagon was welcome , too , they had one , I think , already wounded . |
| 4 | But these they 've erm the religious parties you 've got build there , you know we 've got to expand Israel this is our homeland and if you do n't do this we 're not going to support you . |
| 5 | No doubt they see themselves as devoted middlewomen , bringing the truly important work of the time to the avid masses , but all they are really doing , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is fucking up the lives of both sets of people . |
| 6 | I did go down to my local Citizens ' Advice Bureau to see if they had any ideas , but all they could do was pass on the news that there was a squeeze on the social fund ( the emergency payments fund ) , so I was well advised not to expect too much if I did decide to try the social security people . |
| 7 | Siberia for me , but all they did was put me on a plane heading for Berlin . |
| 8 | Chemists had attempted to synthesize quinine for the previous hundred years ( see Chapter 2 ) but all they had achieved was to discover the extreme complexity of the problem . |
| 9 | Sergeant Davidson and his colleagues made a thorough search of Ballytreabhair Farm , but all they found that night was the sleeping form of Old Den snoring contentedly in his own bed . |
| 10 | Every other farm in the dale was blessed with children able to share the work but all they had was elderly folk who did their level best to help but were just too old and infirm . |
| 11 | She went to a dance alone with hope and a new set of clothes , but all they saw was a fat woman and no-one asked her to dance . |
| 12 | They set out to make sweeping historical epics but all they can come up with are mini-series with no ad breaks . |
| 13 | But all they could show for their efforts were two second half tries for Barry McDermott and Richard Russell . |
| 14 | But all they could show for their efforts were two second half tries for Barry McDermott and Richard Russell . |
| 15 | They both loved deeply , but all they would ever be able to talk about were small , unimportant things . |
| 16 | But all they could see was a big brown eye staring anxiously back at them . |
| 17 | Bangor dominated the entire 40 minutes , pegging Collegians back in their own 22 , but all they had to show for their pressure was a Terry McMaster penalty on the half hour . |
| 18 | but all they cry |
| 19 | Have a nice weekend , keep on taking the pills yeah well you know what it 's like y'know there 'll be so many people dying for this to fail well they do n't know what 's going on but but all they 'll get is one call interception which says I ca n't get through I ca n't get through , or I 've tried this number and it does n't work and blah you know usual thing but right I must keep on taking the Buffalo Bills . |
| 20 | No , but all they do , they leave the orange in the skin . |
| 21 | Yeah , but all they were interested in that shop in |
| 22 | Any one of them would love to take away the £1,000 winner 's cheque , won last year by Bristol Amalgamation , but first they 'll have to beat the other hopefuls on what could be a bumper match . |
| 23 | But first they have to solve the Irish problem , see off the Dutch , and remember how Egypt looked to an Englishman before Suez . |
| 24 | These two pieces will be wedged firmly under the strengthening struts , hiding the two filters and providing natural decoration , but first they should be drilled to allow water flow through them . |
| 25 | In early retirement older workers have a socially acceptable alternative to the stigma of unemployment , that is not available to younger people ( Bruche and Casey 1982 : 112 ) ; but first they must get close to pension age . |
| 26 | But first they must catch you , digger , listener , runner , prince with the swift warning . |
| 27 | But first they had had a late tea in the smaller of the drawing-rooms . |
| 28 | They wanted to surprise their mother and get the breakfast ready , but first they went to look outside . |
| 29 | But first they had to play a series of odd games , working out the rules for each one in turn , playing each one to a conclusion , without cheating or colluding . |
| 30 | But first they had to look for a camp site so Mr was the chief engineer I was employed by him , to have a look round and we discovered Lyness farm to be a suitable place . |