Example sentences of "but [adj] time they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been there three times , but each time they say I must go back to the Home Office and try to get my daughter a visa for longer than a six months ' stay in Britain ; otherwise she can not be admitted to school . |
| 2 | We have been in Britain more than a year now , so the Home Office has extended her visa , but each time they extend it it is only by three months or six months so that she is never eligible for school . |
| 3 | Several times they set out to make their way across by what seemed to be a path but each time they were forced to stop . |
| 4 | But each time they were pegged back by United substitute Ward , who had not scored in 21 previous outings this season . |
| 5 | Not on the odd occasion , but each time they took this fit . |
| 6 | Wayne Thomas , 19 , appeared before magistrates on four occasions — but each time they agreed to defence applications to allow him bail . |
| 7 | I asked them who this mythical creature was , but each time they just said , " You 'll see when you meet him . " |
| 8 | Every few minutes Jacques Devraux sent his trackers up the taller trees to scan the plain on the other side of the river , but each time they descended shaking their heads . |
| 9 | They had quite successfully avoided talking about those two lately but some time they would have to — that was if Fernando 's intentions were serious . |
| 10 | But this time they were wrong . |
| 11 | Moses and Aaron bravely do not do as they are told , but this time they can not save the body of the people from disaster . |
| 12 | Always there have been unembarrassed silences between us , but this time they are filled with their exhaustion . |
| 13 | Indeed , the changes were very like the effects of irradiation with X- or ultra-violet rays , but this time they were being produced by a chemical instead of a physical agent . |
| 14 | But this time they were chemicals . |
| 15 | For younger children , play the same game but this time they can hit the ball with their hands to keep it in the air . |
| 16 | And , well , I was n't doing anything , so I just started writing songs again — but this time they were guitar-based songs and I was working on a Portastudio . |
| 17 | ‘ We 'll be doing more long songs , but this time they 'll be long because there 's more to them , not because they 're jammed out … |
| 18 | But this time they will be of no avail . |
| 19 | The civil servants ( not often wrong , but this time they gave bad advice ) wanted to remove this long example from the body of the Report , and relegate it to an appendix , or , better still , cut it out completely . |
| 20 | The next day they tried again but this time they added ten per cent of heavy water to the liquid , thereby increasing the amount of deuterium — the fusion fuel . |
| 21 | Before , they had produced some good samples but this time they were able to show me some fine quality knitwear including knitted underwear . |
| 22 | Indefatigably the Lionisers prowled their way along Albion Street and surged up the narrow Fort Road , but this time they stopped before they got to Fort House . |
| 23 | But this time they did turn in between the lion-surmounted gateposts . |
| 24 | The organisers are now raising the money to help re-create their own version of a Bridge Too Far … but this time they 're confident of a happy ending . |
| 25 | Usually police find out in advance about the location of such events — but this time they were caught out . |
| 26 | But this time they suffered their heaviest casualties since the battle began . |
| 27 | Yeah but this time they 're saying it 's a suicide |
| 28 | Yeah but this time they 're saying it 's a suicide |
| 29 | But next time they will be on to you . |