Example sentences of "but they [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they had lost ten yards in the manoeuvre , and the Zodiac was almost back into the surf . |
| 2 | They were only eating what remained of the summer 's grass , but they had struck some chord in Mrs Monro . |
| 3 | But they had had this conversation so often and to such little purpose that he had long ago abandoned his part of the dialogue . |
| 4 | These doors were now firmly closed , but they had opened several times since Zen 's arrival , admitting a succession of visitors who had forced their way through the mass of bodies and expectant faces in the corridor outside , sweltering under television lights and waving microphones in front of anyone who appeared . |
| 5 | We had booked up for the ordinary ship and , and rail you know , to go over by ship and rail but er during the months awaiting the , I think we were going in July and er we had booked up maybe about April , but they had put these planes on and Polytechnic wrote to us and said , if we paid two pounds ten extra , we could go by air and we did it and the full tour for a week in Paris , going by air , was twelve pounds ten . |
| 6 | Pauline was a few years older than Chris , who was 31 , but they had found mutual support and love , and together created the opportunity to live on their own . |
| 7 | She did n't see Simone very often , but they had known each other from their schooldays and could pick up their friendship without the slightest difficulty . |
| 8 | The baby was put through extensive tests during a 10-day stay but they failed to find any signs of the fits complained of . |
| 9 | But they chose to implement these cuts by destroying the primary health care programme while devoting almost 90 per cent of the health budget to just one high-tech teaching hospital in the capital . |
| 10 | Two of these halves on a turtle design erm er the door had two halves but they managed to put one part like that , cut |
| 11 | but they 'd got some people coming and were very relieved when he said he 'd get a minicab to Reading . |
| 12 | And they 'd got some funny things but they 'd got foreign names and I thought well |
| 13 | They did n't preach to her , but they did love each other . |
| 14 | The fee for performing at Yeovilton was not high but they did offer free fuel . |
| 15 | v. Ratcliffe the plaintiffs refused to admit coloured persons to their ballroom but they did allow coloured musicians to play in the orchestra . |
| 16 | Moreover , the vast majority of the peasantry were already semi-socialist : they were not yet persuaded of the need for collective farming , but they did reject private landownership and depended upon the labour of their own hands . |
| 17 | Taxes on wealth at death have declined in effectiveness , but they did have some impact ; just as important were crashes in land prices in the 1930s and liquidation of foreign investment to finance war . |
| 18 | Differences in wealth were not easily transmuted into self-conscious social distinctions , but they did require certain forms of expenditure . |
| 19 | The great industrial changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries did not alter the traditional family structure of previous generations , but they did provide economic opportunities for earlier marriages and thus for more children . |
| 20 | But they wanted to do 65 programmes ! |