Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had to coax two into it because they are not very experienced cook , but I chose them for that very reason , ’ he says . |
| 2 | There were other possibles — mostly underworld figures — but I discounted them as red herrings . |
| 3 | The gears were tricky and elaborate , but she managed them after one or two mistakes , and by the time she had been round once she felt very proud of herself . |
| 4 | But we called them in Welsh do you see . |
| 5 | But they had them like this and they were square and oblong . |
| 6 | People always will want horses but they want them in different forms at different times . |
| 7 | Yeah/ Which is highly improbable but he bought them for three pounds |
| 8 | His first plan of revenge fails but he follows them to ancient Egypt , where they are joined by the Daleks and Mavic Chen , who know their Core was a fake . |
| 9 | The government did indeed make new judicial arrangements for the peasantry , but it made them in 1861 . |
| 10 | This does not , like a divorce , enable the parties to marry again , but it releases them in other respects from the duties of married life . |
| 11 | The administration may not own the means of production but it controls them through bureaucratic direction . |