Example sentences of "but they have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they had built a pyre for Scathach , and in so honouring the man they had indicated their recognition of him . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She had confidently expected to convalesce with her brother and his wife , but they had made no offer , indeed nothing but excuses . |
| 5 | But they had saved the train . |
| 6 | But they had done no harm to Timothy Gedge , and if they seemed ridiculous they could n't really help it . |
| 7 | It was n't their fault , usually , that the firm was doing badly , but they had to carry the can . |
| 8 | But they had had no indication . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But they 've done a tabloid internally and they 've asked me to come to take a look at it . |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | What we 've got now is , it 's directly proportional , but they 've got a fraction in . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But they 've got a picture of sunlight , cloud and all things like that . |
| 18 | But they 've got a digger and erm a couple of lorries , cos I , I looked and wondered what they were doing . |
| 19 | I need the loo but they 've got no toilet paper so I ca n't go . |
| 20 | They take on the whole world , but they 've got no patterns with which to deal with all that experience. , |
| 21 | It 's a bit corny , but they 've got the language down pat . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | Well , not that bad really , but they 'd laden a van in London bound for Torquay , and managed to overfill it somewhat , so that when membership services executive Kevin Ramage ( driver ) and conference executive Meryl Halls ( navigator ) were stopped on the road to Torquay and instructed by the police to proceed to the nearest weighbridge , they were found to be in contravention of the law . |
| 24 | I should have been kitted out a week earlier but they 'd got no shoes to fit me . |
| 25 | But they 'd had a pre-meeting when they 'd tried to drop it out . |
| 26 | Yeah I went and got it yesterday but they 'd had a break in and you should 've seen it they 'd smashed the front door , it were all smashed in . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , but they have barred the door . ’ |
| 28 | In the United Kingdom courts have refused to adjudicate upon the validity of Acts of Parliament , but they have developed the doctrine of judicial review by which the exercise of power by other authorities may be reviewed in the courts . |
| 29 | Not only have they continued vigilantly to oppose the many external threats to the countryside , but they have developed an awareness that the rural environment is also being subverted from within — by farmers and landowners , and the demands of modern agricultural practice . |
| 30 | They may talk an alien language of picas and points , separations and screens but they have accumulated the knowledge of several centuries . |