Example sentences of "but [subord] they [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | but if they get the upper hand , and if they think they can start er dictating , then they will , alright ? |
2 | But if they challenge the bureaucratic-military oligarchy for dominance , they are likely to be confronted by a coup d'état . |
3 | Perhaps such interpretations are intriguing not so much because of their rather desperate commitment to the metaphysical primacy of heterosexual genital intercourse — that is merely banal — but because they reveal the tortured cultural and psychic logic which that commitment entails . |
4 | Our own genes cooperate with one another , not because they are our own but because they share the same outlet — sperm or egg — into the future . |
5 | But since they put the token meter in , I 've just found they 're charging me nine pound for token meter as well as the meter ! |
6 | But before they reached the other side , Caesar cried out to Cassius for help , so Cassius had to carry him to safety . |
7 | Father had the job , but when they built the new outfall on the other side of town we stayed on here . |
8 | But as they cuddled the dead baby they realised that it was n't their child . |