Example sentences of "but they [verb] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither picture is particularly rigorous but they serve to emphasize the fact that the LCST is an entropically controlled phenomenon . |
| 2 | A few corpses swayed in the breeze at the end of a rope but they had built a wall so when the bodies decayed and fell , their sight , if not their stink , was hidden from passersby . |
| 3 | But they had built a pyre for Scathach , and in so honouring the man they had indicated their recognition of him . |
| 4 | King John , they said , had granted them by charter the right to pasture their animals and to take housebote and firebote in Lonsdale Forest without payment , but they had lost the charter during the disturbances at the end of his reign . |
| 5 | Neither had been able to get home for her funeral , but they had telegraphed a big wreath and paid their fair share of the undertaker 's bill , after which the letters and dollars stopped and Vi and Mary had grown even closer . |
| 6 | But they had received a further ‘ hammer blow ’ with a demand yesterday ‘ for thousands of pounds from the Inland Revenue for taxation which they had been told by Barlow Clowes had been deducted at source . |
| 7 | There was another story about a blind mother , whose son did not return after the battle ; she wept when he did not return , and asked the survivors if they had seen a young and lovely boy lying slain , dressed in delicately embroidered garments of fine silk , and the survivors said No , they had seen no boy , but they had seen a great bearded man dead , and he had worn tied about his waist strange garments , torn and faded and old , which had once been embroidered with flowers . |
| 8 | She had confidently expected to convalesce with her brother and his wife , but they had made no offer , indeed nothing but excuses . |
| 9 | But they had made a pleasant enough scene , one with which she felt she ought to be able to identify . |
| 10 | But they had saved the train . |
| 11 | But they had done no harm to Timothy Gedge , and if they seemed ridiculous they could n't really help it . |
| 12 | It was n't their fault , usually , that the firm was doing badly , but they had to carry the can . |
| 13 | But they had had no indication . |
| 14 | He had toyed with the idea of taking her to Dublin anyway , but they had had a rocky road enough already and perhaps she would be better at home . |
| 15 | It was ridiculous to have let the tank get so low but they had had an argument only three days earlier on whose turn it was to call at the garage and pay for the petrol . |
| 16 | In America , where they often performed , the trains struck them as poignant chiefly because uncared for , but they had found a friend with a long New England face who was a fireman on the run to Boston , and his professionalism and high interest in the topic of transport were entirely cheering . |
| 17 | Penelope wished now that she had worn a dress or suit instead of the elegant tartan trews , but they had seemed the only way to make Rupert Stonebird notice her . |
| 18 | The feminists thought the whole structure was rotten , but they had taken a particular dislike to Pilger . |
| 19 | Neither he nor Charlotte had intended to stay there long , But they continued renting the house for fourteen years , and after the First World War they bought it — after which it became known as Shaw 's Corner . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It took about nine days for them completely to stop eating green eggs , but they continued to enjoy the ordinary white egg . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But they failed to stop the accident because staff were poorly trained . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But they claim to have the support of hundreds of local residents , who they say do n't want the complex sited on common land . |
| 30 | and they just say it totally randomly and the last one just the first pers person who says Mornington Crescent is the winner but they 've made a great big sort of fiction as to how why , when it is suitable to say Mornington Crescent |