Example sentences of "but they have [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But they had built a pyre for Scathach , and in so honouring the man they had indicated their recognition of him . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She had confidently expected to convalesce with her brother and his wife , but they had made no offer , indeed nothing but excuses . |
| 8 | But they had made a pleasant enough scene , one with which she felt she ought to be able to identify . |
| 9 | But they had saved the train . |
| 10 | But they had done no harm to Timothy Gedge , and if they seemed ridiculous they could n't really help it . |
| 11 | It was n't their fault , usually , that the firm was doing badly , but they had to carry the can . |
| 12 | But they had had no indication . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The feminists thought the whole structure was rotten , but they had taken a particular dislike to Pilger . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | ‘ But they 've done a great job . |
| 20 | But they 've done a tabloid internally and they 've asked me to come to take a look at it . |
| 21 | Teague 's career looked all over after the world cup final … but he 's beaten off a shoulder injury and is back at his best … so too is Oxfordshire jockey Richard Dunwoody he rode five winners on saturday … today he won again on the Nicholson trained Now Your Talkin … he 's the top jockey with 40 winners … now he 's talkin … the Williams team from Didcot do n't do a lot of talking apart from Nigel of course but they 've swept the board in formula one this season … |
| 22 | Yes I think that probably this had been er very wise in this er in so I 'm not saying that they 've helped us or anything but they 've kept the middle of the line and erm In the beginning when things were beginning to whatsit er the inspector sent two policemen down here and asked me would I ask the lads not to do any damage to property and all this , and that and said , Right there 's a lodge tonight and I shall ask them I shall tell them to do that . |
| 23 | What we 've got now is , it 's directly proportional , but they 've got a fraction in . |
| 24 | They still have a , a kind of thing within , I do n't think they 've got football but they 've got a golfing thing going . |
| 25 | Brian Horton says they 're really looking forward to it … it 's going to be a tough season … but they 've got a good team and are going to play adventerous football |
| 26 | But they 've got a lovely lot of dance records . |
| 27 | But they 've got a picture of sunlight , cloud and all things like that . |
| 28 | But they 've got a digger and erm a couple of lorries , cos I , I looked and wondered what they were doing . |
| 29 | erm but they 've got a sticky bit on them |
| 30 | No my friend 's in the trade I said they 're basically working but they 've got a halt on somewhere because they 've come back you 'll have to sort out the you 've got but er they 're only one ten |