Example sentences of "but they [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither picture is particularly rigorous but they serve to emphasize the fact that the LCST is an entropically controlled phenomenon . |
| 2 | King John , they said , had granted them by charter the right to pasture their animals and to take housebote and firebote in Lonsdale Forest without payment , but they had lost the charter during the disturbances at the end of his reign . |
| 3 | But they had saved the train . |
| 4 | It was n't their fault , usually , that the firm was doing badly , but they had to carry the can . |
| 5 | Neither he nor Charlotte had intended to stay there long , But they continued renting the house for fourteen years , and after the First World War they bought it — after which it became known as Shaw 's Corner . |
| 6 | But they continued to build the duomo and the many lovely churches and monasteries of the city ; , for in the eleventh and twelfth centuries , and especially in Italy , a deep religious sentiment and an active anticlericalism often lived side by side , sometimes within the same human breast . |
| 7 | But they failed to stop the accident because staff were poorly trained . |
| 8 | But they failed to reduce the size sufficiently and ended up with a prototype that could n't record anything — so the engineers used it to play their favourite music cassettes while they worked . |
| 9 | At least two notable cantata composers , the Roman Giovanni Felice Sances ( c. 1600–1679 ) and Pietro ( Antonio ) Cesti ( 1623–69 ) , far more famous for his operas , ended their careers in the Imperial Chapel at Vienna , but they failed to transplant the chamber cantata there . |
| 10 | But they claim to have the support of hundreds of local residents , who they say do n't want the complex sited on common land . |
| 11 | Teague 's career looked all over after the world cup final … but he 's beaten off a shoulder injury and is back at his best … so too is Oxfordshire jockey Richard Dunwoody he rode five winners on saturday … today he won again on the Nicholson trained Now Your Talkin … he 's the top jockey with 40 winners … now he 's talkin … the Williams team from Didcot do n't do a lot of talking apart from Nigel of course but they 've swept the board in formula one this season … |
| 12 | Yes I think that probably this had been er very wise in this er in so I 'm not saying that they 've helped us or anything but they 've kept the middle of the line and erm In the beginning when things were beginning to whatsit er the inspector sent two policemen down here and asked me would I ask the lads not to do any damage to property and all this , and that and said , Right there 's a lodge tonight and I shall ask them I shall tell them to do that . |
| 13 | It 's a bit corny , but they 've got the language down pat . |
| 14 | The Scamps have always been Third or Fourth Division , but they 've spread the work in their time and that 's why old Mrs S is now calling in the favours . ’ |
| 15 | Would n't mind so much but they kept taking the piss out I was wearing my socks . |
| 16 | An example often quoted is that of Bernard Bloch , who defined the style of a text as " the message carried by the frequency distributions and transitional probabilities of its linguistic features , especially as they differ from those of the same features in the language as a whole Such definitions appeal to the empiricist , who would like to reduce a subjectively perceived phenomenon to something objective , but they tend to alarm the student of literature . |
| 17 | point out quite rightly that the matrix clause " expresses the subject 's preference " here but they fail to see the implications of this for the infinitive . |
| 18 | We argued , but they refused to let the others go to the toilet . |
| 19 | But they seem to carry the implication that society exists as a fixed structure , with slots into which school-leavers ( or university-leavers ) must be fitted . |
| 20 | Her comments on interest rates had little impact on financial markets but they appeared to underscore the Government 's commitment to holding up the pound . |
| 21 | But they need to hear the message |
| 22 | Well-known water gardening company Lotus do not sell media separately but they do offer the Bio 500 filter which is loaded with a foam pre-filter and Flocor type media . |
| 23 | They do n't come cheap but they do offer the sort of value , wear , sound and heat insulation and dirt-resistance that you 're going to expect . |
| 24 | But they do blame the Hunt Saboteurs who organised the demonstration in Cambridgeshire and sent a bus to Milton Keynes to pick up young supporters . |
| 25 | ANALYSTS AND THE CASH FLOW STATEMENT Analysts may not view the annual report as the best source of information about a company , but they do prefer the cash flow statement to the funds flow statement |
| 26 | Quantum objects do not act as carriers of classical quantities such as position and momentum ( their wavefunctions are not usually eigenstates of these observables ) but they do carry the potentiality for such quantities ( their wavefunctions are always superpositions of such eigenstates ) . |
| 27 | None of these restrictions inhibit the ability of Commons ' committees to question ministers but they do maintain the curtain surrounding the influence of civil servants . |
| 28 | But they do fear the arsonist will strike again . |
| 29 | Some of the commercially available plastic sunflower-seed feeders look as if they have been designed by someone made redundant from the spaceship industry , but they do keep the seed dry and let you see when to refill . |
| 30 | But they do value the report as a reference document . |