Example sentences of "but they [verb] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Libyan police forces were of various kinds ( municipal , traffic , frontier , uniformed public security , plainclothes detective , and secret ) , but they shared one characteristic : the policemen usually lived in their own homes , in the towns and oases in which they had rights to land . |
| 2 | They belonged to they were ships you know , but they had one sailing ship , the herself , They made a road into quarry you see . |
| 3 | But they went one stage further : Soviet socialism adopted a stance of militant atheism . |
| 4 | Most of these are not of great quality , but they include one master , the Pan Painter , who plays the old conventions against the new spirit with exquisite skill . |
| 5 | The large number of astronomy books published may be varied in their presentation , topics , standards of difficulty and reader orientation , but they have one thing in common : the author 's open enthusiasm for the subject and desire to put it across . |