Example sentences of "but they [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were only eating what remained of the summer 's grass , but they had struck some chord in Mrs Monro . |
| 2 | But they had had this conversation so often and to such little purpose that he had long ago abandoned his part of the dialogue . |
| 3 | She tried to tell Maud and Enid , but they had had enough of frog stories , particularly as Mildred had actually admitted to them , at the time , that the story she had told Sybil was not true . |
| 4 | These doors were now firmly closed , but they had opened several times since Zen 's arrival , admitting a succession of visitors who had forced their way through the mass of bodies and expectant faces in the corridor outside , sweltering under television lights and waving microphones in front of anyone who appeared . |
| 5 | We had booked up for the ordinary ship and , and rail you know , to go over by ship and rail but er during the months awaiting the , I think we were going in July and er we had booked up maybe about April , but they had put these planes on and Polytechnic wrote to us and said , if we paid two pounds ten extra , we could go by air and we did it and the full tour for a week in Paris , going by air , was twelve pounds ten . |
| 6 | She did n't see Simone very often , but they had known each other from their schooldays and could pick up their friendship without the slightest difficulty . |
| 7 | True , neither the mews house nor any stick of furniture in it had been his by law , but they had chosen many of the items together — she relying upon his artist 's eye , he upon her money to purchase whatever his gaze admired . |
| 8 | The baby was put through extensive tests during a 10-day stay but they failed to find any signs of the fits complained of . |
| 9 | But they seemed to have less , do n't misunderstand me , I 'm not class conscious , but it was a different class of person . |
| 10 | But they chose to implement these cuts by destroying the primary health care programme while devoting almost 90 per cent of the health budget to just one high-tech teaching hospital in the capital . |
| 11 | Then he 'd spied troopies and had trailed ‘ em , but they 'd sussed that . |
| 12 | but they 'd got some people coming and were very relieved when he said he 'd get a minicab to Reading . |
| 13 | But they stopped doing that last year . ’ |
| 14 | They did n't preach to her , but they did love each other . |
| 15 | Taxes on wealth at death have declined in effectiveness , but they did have some impact ; just as important were crashes in land prices in the 1930s and liquidation of foreign investment to finance war . |
| 16 | Kelso were guilty of missing far too many tackles , but they did lose all their back row through injury during the game , and Eric Paxton had to come out of retirement as a replacement . |
| 17 | There was no sign of any sheep , but they did notice some strange-looking footprints in the earth by the house . |