Example sentences of "but they [verb] [not/n't] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | M. B. The Federation helped us but they had n't any teeth . |
2 | If such treatments could eradicate the symptoms in a large proportion of patients it would be a different matter , but they do not-in most patients , they simply reduce the symptoms to a more manageable level . |
3 | More precisely , lots of people have ideas , but they do not all agree . |
4 | But they do not all offer equal value for money . |
5 | All languages have systems but they do not all use them for the same purposes ; what is an essential distinction in one language may be quite disregarded in another . |
6 | Academic councils , professional resource centres and curriculum " clusters " all acknowledge the need to diminish isolation , but they do not all look forward with the same clear-sightedness further into any young person 's life . |
7 | But they do n't all work . |
8 | If you look carefully at the pictures , you will see each of the four children more than once , but they do n't all appear in all the pictures . |
9 | Said Robert : ‘ I have 36 pigeons at the moment but they do n't all race long distance ’ . |
10 | But they do n't that . |
11 | ‘ But they do n't any more , do they ? ’ said Scarlet . |
12 | They used to but they do n't any more they 've taken all that sort of brilliant stuff away . |
13 | In other words , they ca n't go out themselves , perhaps rock climbing , they may have a lot of other attributes , but they have n't that particular attribute . |