Example sentences of "but they [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they made it to the boat , which sailed in the early hours of 1 September , two days before war was declared . |
| 2 | When you walked into the well what I would call a cupboard but they classed it as the bathroom . |
| 3 | It not only conflicts with their self-conscious professionalism but they regard it as an increasing anachronism in the agriculture of the 1970s . |
| 4 | ‘ When I vacated the office I asked the Rates Agency to send me an adjusted bill , but they sent it to the office and I did not get it , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Yes but they take it from the book . |
| 6 | It was fully half an hour before the farmer and the farmhands beat out all the flames , but they managed it in the end . |
| 7 | Of course the Scandinavians have been skiing for about 4,500 years , but they used it as a means of travelling across country , not as an activity in itself , that has only happened in the last hundred years . |
| 8 | Both leaders admitted that several issues remained unresolved by the treaty , but they described it as a good basis for the development of future bilateral relations . |