Example sentences of "but they [vb past] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't their fault , usually , that the firm was doing badly , but they had to carry the can . |
| 2 | When the storm broke they were literally in the front line , but they continued to stock The Satanic Verses and in many cases display it prominently . |
| 3 | It took about nine days for them completely to stop eating green eggs , but they continued to enjoy the ordinary white egg . |
| 4 | But they continued to build the duomo and the many lovely churches and monasteries of the city ; , for in the eleventh and twelfth centuries , and especially in Italy , a deep religious sentiment and an active anticlericalism often lived side by side , sometimes within the same human breast . |
| 5 | Astronomers at JTL , afraid of being scooped by the amateurs , put out a press release claiming IRAS discovered it first — but they failed to mention the British team that found it for them . |
| 6 | But they failed to stop the accident because staff were poorly trained . |
| 7 | But they failed to place a swimmer in the final of the 100m backstroke whereas rivals Barnet Copthall , fourth in the 1500m thanks to a 16min 25.87sec swim by Malcolm McCallum , have a competitor in every final at the half-way stage . |
| 8 | But they failed to reduce the size sufficiently and ended up with a prototype that could n't record anything — so the engineers used it to play their favourite music cassettes while they worked . |
| 9 | At least two notable cantata composers , the Roman Giovanni Felice Sances ( c. 1600–1679 ) and Pietro ( Antonio ) Cesti ( 1623–69 ) , far more famous for his operas , ended their careers in the Imperial Chapel at Vienna , but they failed to transplant the chamber cantata there . |
| 10 | 100m from the line Block/Burgess were lying 4th but they seemed to find a reserve of energy from somewhere and crossed the line 1st , followed by Estevez/Marcheco of Cuba and Bobreshov/Kalesnik of the USSR in 0.8 secs . |
| 11 | And now he 's , they 've got one and I think it was about five hundred pounds , they bought this one s but they managed to sell the other one for about a hundred and fifty they say . |
| 12 | The final stage between Cresswell and Burslem gave us a few anxious moments when Dave and Richard became ensnared in City Centre traffic but they managed to complete the 24 hour Tour de Matthey with 5 minutes to spare ! |
| 13 | They lived a long way away , but they decided to take a weeks holiday in Cornwall and decided to see Daryl in the middle of it . |
| 14 | But they decided to establish a study committee in Brussels to look at both a common market and the possibilities for ‘ sector ’ co-operation . |
| 15 | We argued , but they refused to let the others go to the toilet . |
| 16 | In a communiqué they said that difficulties still remained , over differing perceptions of the future state structure , but they undertook to adopt a treaty on its principles by the end of November . |
| 17 | Some of them were politer than others , but they tended to ask the same questions as they trampled through the house . |
| 18 | A number of documentary collections , some of them drawing on Soviet publications , were compiled by western scholars , but they tended to bear the strong imprint of liberal editorship and to concentrate on political rather than socio-economic material . |
| 19 | Her comments on interest rates had little impact on financial markets but they appeared to underscore the Government 's commitment to holding up the pound . |
| 20 | For the most part they were nominally Muslims now but they appeared to have an idea of torturable classes . |
| 21 | ‘ It was n't very well illustrated , ’ says Sendak , ‘ but they wanted to keep the smallness and the charm . |
| 22 | But they stayed to erase every vestige of paganism . |
| 23 | But they arrived to discover the house had been set on fire by attempts to burn large quantities of ‘ literature ’ . |