Example sentences of "but they [verb] [verb] [art] [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 | But they had built a pyre for Scathach , and in so honouring the man they had indicated their recognition of him . |
| 3 | A few corpses swayed in the breeze at the end of a rope but they had built a wall so when the bodies decayed and fell , their sight , if not their stink , was hidden from passersby . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She had confidently expected to convalesce with her brother and his wife , but they had made no offer , indeed nothing but excuses . |
| 6 | But they had saved the train . |
| 7 | But they had done no harm to Timothy Gedge , and if they seemed ridiculous they could n't really help it . |
| 8 | It was n't their fault , usually , that the firm was doing badly , but they had to carry the can . |
| 9 | But they had had no indication . |
| 10 | It was ridiculous to have let the tank get so low but they had had an argument only three days earlier on whose turn it was to call at the garage and pay for the petrol . |
| 11 | In America , where they often performed , the trains struck them as poignant chiefly because uncared for , but they had found a friend with a long New England face who was a fireman on the run to Boston , and his professionalism and high interest in the topic of transport were entirely cheering . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But they failed to stop the accident because staff were poorly trained . |
| 15 | But they failed to place a swimmer in the final of the 100m backstroke whereas rivals Barnet Copthall , fourth in the 1500m thanks to a 16min 25.87sec swim by Malcolm McCallum , have a competitor in every final at the half-way stage . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 100m from the line Block/Burgess were lying 4th but they seemed to find a reserve of energy from somewhere and crossed the line 1st , followed by Estevez/Marcheco of Cuba and Bobreshov/Kalesnik of the USSR in 0.8 secs . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But they 've done a tabloid internally and they 've asked me to come to take a look at it . |
| 21 | 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 … |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | What we 've got now is , it 's directly proportional , but they 've got a fraction in . |
| 24 | No my friend 's in the trade I said they 're basically working but they 've got a halt on somewhere because they 've come back you 'll have to sort out the you 've got but er they 're only one ten |
| 25 | They still have a , a kind of thing within , I do n't think they 've got football but they 've got a golfing thing going . |
| 26 | But they 've got a picture of sunlight , cloud and all things like that . |
| 27 | But they 've got a digger and erm a couple of lorries , cos I , I looked and wondered what they were doing . |
| 28 | I need the loo but they 've got no toilet paper so I ca n't go . |
| 29 | They take on the whole world , but they 've got no patterns with which to deal with all that experience. , |
| 30 | It 's a bit corny , but they 've got the language down pat . |