Example sentences of "but [adv] they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did n't go into details , but apparently they have medical records from their own GP and a letter from their local hospital . ’ |
| 2 | Like Tamas , most draft dodgers are barely in their twenties , but already they exhibit classic symptoms of exile 's syndrome : relief at getting out , guilt at leaving their family and friends behind and an unbreakable addiction to the news about the wars in former Yugoslavia . |
| 3 | ‘ People are coming here drunk , worried or tired of the chores of the world , but always they leave this place refreshed . ’ |
| 4 | They practise their swing , but often they pay little attention to the situation at hand . |
| 5 | By day the alleys that ran into a scruffy hinterland were rat-hole rubbish traps but now they seemed romantic lanes where lovers might meet under the bracket lamps and as the sun departed , watch the moon ride over a Grimms ' fairy tale huddle of pinnacled rooftops . |
| 6 | The several sects of Dissenters are glad to be rid of Popery also ; but now they expect glorious days for themselves " . |
| 7 | But today they asked regular shoppers to think back exactly one week , and some replies have been helpful . |
| 8 | For not only are they bad for women — who find it difficult to be canonized unless they are nuns , queens or martyrs — but equally they form another monolith . |
| 9 | Koels also live in Australia but here they parasitise other species , and the young do not mimic the host . |
| 10 | And erm but then they 'd all Margaret and erm everybody had jumped on the bandwagon and said , . |
| 11 | But then they said this Casey was a cop . ’ |
| 12 | One called shock horror and the tabloids in action and one called power without responsibility because I think you could perhaps make in fact the , the taste that in terms of circulation the tabloids actually have the power to influence significantly to in int influence public attitudes so but how they exercise that power is without responsibility . |
| 13 | His argument is that newspapers may be inhibited about discussing the commercial interests of their proprietors but otherwise they exercise independent judgement . |
| 14 | But seriously they want ten times whatever ! |
| 15 | Many people in a management position maybe using P Cs on their desk , I mean those move more and more into the organization as people work with spreadsheet people work with electronic mail and so on and so forth , and the ability to use the P C as their terminal , their window into the accounting application , but secondly they have these tools such as spreadsheets which again are able to directly access the database and the accounting data maintained within it . |