Example sentences of "but they [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they immediately ran into criticism from the NRPB about how thorough the survey should be . |
| 2 | The five million crimes recorded in Britain last year suggest serious social disorder , but they scarcely figured in the election . |
| 3 | A world-wide protest movement tried to prevent their execution , but they eventually went to the electric chair in 1927 . |
| 4 | The series was tight and there were many close matches which could have gone either way but they eventually went in the American 's favour . |
| 5 | The fledgling Twist were a lot more lightweight and bubblegum in style , recruiting Martin Fry 's brother , Jamie , on vocals but they eventually returned to Manchester where they dawdled around in their own faffing style and managed to emerge after all the Mancs fuss was over . |
| 6 | The fledgling Twist were a lot more lightweight and bubblegum in style , recruiting Martin Fry 's brother , Jamie , on vocals but they eventually returned to Manchester where they dawdled around in their own faffing style and managed to emerge after all the Mancs fuss was over . |
| 7 | He knew precisely what she was doing and made a face at her , but they both listened with real interest to what Suvarov had to say . |
| 8 | Women , erm from men 's departments , cos they just , like she said they , I do n't know why , but they just seemed to sort of |
| 9 | Not only did they raise more than £1,000 but they also succeeded in helping to recruit men for a battalion of the Green Howards that was being formed at Northallerton . |
| 10 | In London Whigs and Dissenters not only organised counter-demonstrations , where they burnt effigies of the Pope , the Pretender and Tory defectors , but they also engaged in vigilante activity , as they sought to suppress the activities of the Jacobite crowds . |
| 11 | Port Talbot had a large and vital steelworks , and moonlit nights almost always brought the Luftwaffe , but they also came in daylight . |
| 12 | So they , they welcomed the idea of a separation of powers but they also insisted on another principle , probably the most important principle of American government , and that is the principle of federalism . |
| 13 | Some of them were closely connected with those already in existence but they also sprang from advances in science and technology . |
| 14 | But they also brought with them European innovations ; and already , in the winter of 1888 , the bazaars were stocked with articles never before seen : porcelain , lamps , glasses , mirrors , brushes , writing materials , coffee , preserves , biscuits . |
| 15 | Not only did they guard the bridge crossing the Tyne , but they also stood at the junction of the Stanegate , running west towards Carlisle , and Dere Street , one of the two main arterial routes from York into central southern Scotland . |
| 16 | Children with previous experience not only did the shows at the Pavilion at 2 pm and 7 pm but they also appeared at the Ballroom in between , thoroughly enjoying the mad rush . |
| 17 | After 1950 the newer electronics offerings appeared in double form — they had close ties to defence and public service , but they also appeared in Europe as forceful standard-bearers for the free market approach . |
| 18 | Next in was Ocean Quest on 11 December , with a time of 16 days , 10 hr , 9 min and 22 sec , but they also motored for many hours . |
| 19 | but they probably played with themselves before they fucking tied the string round , no |
| 20 | As with Gabby , we had n't known them long — almost unbelievably less than two years , but they already seemed to be old friends . |
| 21 | Sadly , the beautiful old yacht Honey Bee was only going to Cruibh Haven but they keenly solicited around the basin on my behalf . |
| 22 | Industrialists often made that sort of threat , but they rarely seemed to be carried out . |
| 23 | Initially many of the associated yards remained relatively open , but they gradually filled with furnaces , kilns and clay dumps , clearly reflecting increasing pressure on land . |
| 24 | I was quite interested in flashers and their psychology , and often wished they would ‘ flash ’ me ; but they always looked at me with the utmost contempt as I stood waiting hopefully for a revelation . |
| 25 | I sometimes used to help him out with double dates , but they always ended with both girls squabbling over yours truly and Stuart sulking in the corner and displaying all the charisma of a limpet . |
| 26 | The NIBA too had to battle all the way against the PBA , but they only failed on one rink — that skipped by Rathfriland 's Gary McIlroy was beaten 26–14 by Eamon McCann . |
| 27 | But they only asked for Eva to be found , not brought home . |
| 28 | Then in the 18th century , either the choir was awful or the weather was awful , er nobody 's too sure which , but they then settled for just seeing the one thing they knew by memory which was this Eucharistic hymn : Todaym Parchym that they sang in the hall every night as a grace , and that 's how it 's gone on . |
| 29 | The Derry republicans had organised a Release the Prisoners Committee in 1962 , but they then retired into obscurity until 1966 , when six members were arrested for taking part in an illegal Easter Rising commemoration . |
| 30 | But they never thought in those terms . |