Example sentences of "but they [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But they wasted a good position at to two to lose the next eight for runs , the North Down bowlers sharing the wickets evenly .
2 In the Devonian period the nautiloids were still abundant and varied , but they suffered a slow eclipse coincident with the rise of the ammonoids .
3 In themselves they were by no means new — they were indeed centuries old — but they constituted a direct challenge to the rather abstract and clear-cut penal theory which was much subscribed to on both sides of the Atlantic , and to this extent also reflected something of the atmosphere of the new age .
4 But they made a good offer .
5 But they made a great thing with the salt fish .
6 But they made a costly mistake in teaching their language to the hoipolloi .
7 Her favourite partner was her father ; neither of them could serve to save their lives and most of the balls ended up scattered on the lawn , but they made a handsome couple on the court .
8 SYDNEY WOODERSON and Zola Budd did not have much in common but they knew a special achievement and a peculiar failure .
9 The oldest pieces of amber we have date from a hundred million years ago , a very long time after the conifers and the flying insects first appeared , but they contain a huge range of creatures , including representatives of all the major insect groups that we know today .
10 But they commanded a stronger sense of political direction and greater willingness to take an active part in the zemstvos than the more conservative majority .
11 They had a good night 's sleep but they had a tremendous job waking up this morning .
12 But they had a Tsarist treasure hidden there — that desk set .
13 But they had a new headmaster oh he 's just retired , he 's been there been there since Lynn was there when since she was since the er she 's twice that age so I mean he must have been there eighteen years but when he went there he 's er totally the school from the word go
14 But they had a tiring game on Sunday , energy reserves began to run low and the tourists hit back with tries from Taewa ( 2 ) , Leota and Kuiti .
15 But they had a joint bank mortgage on the bungalow .
16 There were those who promoted the idea much earlier , but they had a limited following .
17 Villains they might be , but they had a certain code of practice and the rule was that you looked after your own kind .
18 They were also mainly peasant economies , but they had a significant number of industrial enterprises ( many of which were the ancestors of today 's ‘ organizations of associated labour ’ ) .
19 But they had a lively fear that enclosure might rob them of their valuable rights — rights which made a real difference to their standard and their mode of living — in the interests of the large freeholders and a corporation known to be corrupt .
20 The political allies of the Popular Television Association were initially limited to a handful of young Conservative backbenchers like John Profumo and Selwyn Lloyd , but they ran a public-relations campaign on a scale , and of a sophistication , which had not been seen before in Britain .
21 The sisters had no money for food and medicines , but they received a continuous stream of charitable donations .
22 Bere Forest also had a tough match against Meridian B and , once again , they found themselves a goal down at half time but they took a 2–1 lead in the second half before Meridian B equalized to take the game into extra time .
23 But they said a hundred quid but it was about eighteen ninety was n't it ?
24 Emotional bruises did n't show , but they left a painful vulnerability which she hated .
25 But they follow a positive assertion : " I am the Lord your God … "
26 They look quite dull and uninteresting when lying on the beaches around Whitby and Scarborough , but they take a brilliant polish and look wonderful when mounted as jewellery .
27 Beans , pulses and grains feature increasingly in a healthy diet , but they take a long time to cook , even using a microwave .
28 Dogs , too , prey on the marine iguanas , but they eat a wide range of other animals including the rare Galapagos penguin .
29 Incisor digestion is almost always greater than molar digestion , so that most points fall above the equal proportion line ( Fig. 3.25 ) , but they show a high level of correlation ( r = 0.848 ) .
30 The Celtic player Davie Hay and the late Hibernian full back Erich Schaedler made the first brave attempt , but they chose a defective boat and capsized almost immediately .
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