Example sentences of "but [adv] they [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But eventually they managed to get hold of some pieces to suit the new look : two Bauhaus chairs , a bent-arm chair in black by Mario Botta , a halogen light by VeArt from Italy and a huge black refrigerator by Zanussi , designed in Italy by Pezzatta . |
| 2 | But eventually they come to accept the situation and seem able to live each day more perfectly and more beautifully than the rest of us are able to do . |
| 3 | They 'd dived , you see , but eventually they had to surface — the air must 've been getting bad — and up they came , drew nearly alongside a German destroyer the pack had left behind when they called off the hunt , waiting there , just in case Taureg surfaced . |
| 4 | But slowly they began to reminisce . |
| 5 | They thought it was broken , then they said it was just a bad sprain , but apparently they want to do another X-ray , so I simply do n't know what 's happening . |
| 6 | But obviously they had to find out what it was all about . |
| 7 | But house er erm what is that that 's the footpath people is n't it , they always come and repair things if they 're told , at least they sh , but obviously they have to work in collaboration with the farmers , er concerned . |
| 8 | In part they seem to be societal — you score no points if you ditch your spouse — but largely they seem to concern the very basic matter of pair-bonding . |
| 9 | Since the approach was fairly new to all interviewed ( none had been operating it for more than nine months ) the responses may have more to do with expectations than experience , but nevertheless they serve to sketch out the potential of the care programme approach to affect every aspect of mental health care , for good or ill . |
| 10 | But tonight they refused to comment on the court 's decision . |
| 11 | But somehow they managed to look happy , gay and bright . ’ |
| 12 | But yesterday they had to accept a report by officials calling for commercial waste collection charges which could result in bills of up to £2,000 a year for some users . |
| 13 | But now they had to wait until , as the advertising put it , ‘ The Bay Calls the Day ’ . |
| 14 | But now they threatened to desecrate the temple . |
| 15 | Hitherto such bodies had been under the sway of the main committee chairman , but now they began to acquire a life of their own . |
| 16 | And there was his behaviour since their father 's death : odd little things she had scarcely noticed at the time but now they began to acquire significance in her mind . |
| 17 | For years , he and Hank had exchanged only a few words , but now they began to talk , drawn together by the magic of money ; and Hank was surprised and flattered to find that the elder man was entranced by his sudden success . |
| 18 | Other products are bought on the commodity exchanges , like to a large extent tea cocoa and a few other things like Rowntrees buying cocoa from Ghana but now they seem to buy it anywhere that they can get it cheaply . |
| 19 | But now they have to wait weeks or even months to claim back the money — forced to produce an exam certificate for each trainee before the TEC pays up . |
| 20 | Steve White … says he did n't expect to be going back to Wembley but now they plan to make the most of it |
| 21 | But frequently they appear to have taken leave of their senses when it comes to choosing the right sort of women . |
| 22 | Slowly but surely they began to fill my every thought , until it reached the stage where I could no longer cope with daily life . |
| 23 | You can imagine that some drivers er went the wrong way , and it was just that they , they just did n't concentrate on the run but nowadays they seem to run all over the town . |
| 24 | The plight of the rural poor does not tend to loom large in the minds of businessmen , but even they need to pay attention to Thailand 's educational shortcomings . |
| 25 | Mr Brown 's supporters reel off a list of bills that the Speaker has influenced ; but even they have to admit that many of his greatest victories have been stopping ‘ evil ’ Republican laws rather than creating good Democratic ones . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ When we played last time we did n't have any problem , but here they tried to unsettle us because they were really frustrated . |
| 27 | The Belgium federation offered players considerably more than Belfast to take part in an exhibition game on June 7 , but fortunately they prefer to compete in the prestigious inter-continental event . |
| 28 | ‘ The police were searching the whole area but then they seemed to realise that it must be the van . ’ |
| 29 | But then they began to climb up a narrow , spiral staircase , and she saw no more . |
| 30 | But then they tend to get promoted and move on to other things . |