Example sentences of "but they [vb base] [verb] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , but they 've got to have a , you , you 've got to have a , you 've got |
| 2 | Germans were billeted here , but they seem to have treated the place with considerably more decency than they did the people . ’ |
| 3 | But they seem to have spent the day together on Sunday . |
| 4 | Creamy cleansers are most effective at removing makeup , regardless of your skin type ( always use two applications for a thorough cleanse ) , but they do tend to leave a greasy residue . |
| 5 | But they do enjoy provoking a reaction from adults and being the centre of attention . |
| 6 | I mean you ca n't do that there is no correlation between you ca n't say that all the activists are extroverts cos are actually quite about the way they but they do like to have a go and it does n't say all the reflectors cos they 're sitting back and thinking and they 're actually quiet reflectors . |
| 7 | Pilots do n't have to spend their waking hours obsessed with danger , but they do have to spend a lot of time rolling the word safety around their minds . |
| 8 | I do not mean by this that they have had to invent new beliefs , but they do have to adopt the voluntary camaraderie of the sects . |
| 9 | ‘ But they appear to have got a bit lax on ( a ) . ’ |
| 10 | The improvements made in the machines to date do not seem as though they ought to have added up to much , but they appear to have allowed the crossing of a psychological threshold , after which a rich harvest of human error becomes accessible . |
| 11 | Electric fish have , at least twice independently , hit upon this ingenious method of navigation , but they have had to pay a price : they have had to give up the normal , highly efficient , fish method of swimming , throwing the whole body into serpentine waves . |
| 12 | But they have had to overcome a surprising amount of resistance to the idea that nurses should be involved in research , chiefly from within the nursing profession itself . |
| 13 | The courts have not gone so far as to give a cause of action in damages for the breach of such a promise , but they have refused to allow the party making it to act inconsistently with it . |
| 14 | But they have helped to preserve the class system in Britain . |