Example sentences of "but they [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some distance behind them her ladies walked ; they were kind , but they oppressed her with their insistence on her royalty , and it was hard to live up to them . |
| 2 | So right away you had Hawaiian choirs singing church music , but they tinged it with this Hawaiian melodic sense , which is like a different way of resolving a melody . |
| 3 | But they hold it is witchcraft which singled out this particular victim for attack and made him the target of the animal 's assault . |
| 4 | Many aspects of his analysis were similar to those advanced by Blauner , but they led him to an opposite conclusion . |
| 5 | ‘ They stole it from us , ’ said Dorset captain Doug Pratt , who added generously : ‘ but they deserved it . ’ |
| 6 | Yeah but they pegged it back afterwards . |
| 7 | But they speared him , and she fainted , just that once . |
| 8 | We 're hoping he wo n't be there long but they thought he might n't be able to manage in big classes . |
| 9 | No but they thought he was far too good for him , put him on as trainee manager then they sacked him ! |
| 10 | Some of the neighbours knew about my interest in birds , but they thought I kept them in cages . |
| 11 | ( This meant borrowing money and suffering a lot of hardships ; but they thought it would be worth it , because it would mean they could not be so easily discriminated against . ) |
| 12 | It was a painful decision to leave it behind but they thought it would be safest in one of the tin trunks in the box-room at The Tamarisks . |
| 13 | But they thought it might be in Dortmund — about 90 miles away . |
| 14 | We told them she was losing the baby , but they thought it was just a scam for her to get out of the cell . |
| 15 | Well , not automatically , but they thought it would be a good idea to have him in . |
| 16 | But they thought it were Wendy 's daughter ! |
| 17 | But it was n't , it was n't slippery see , but they thought it would be . |
| 18 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 19 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 20 | But they made him realize that he was getting across what he wanted to get across , and not a holy-sounding fog of words . |
| 21 | Sometimes I took speed — ‘ blues ’ , little blue tablets — to keep me awake , but they made me depressed , they made my testicles shrivel up and I kept thinking I was getting a heart attack . |
| 22 | Those sessions nearly wrecked my hearing for life , but they made me laugh so much and took up so much of my off-duty that , as time went by , sometimes , just sometimes , I was able to laugh at my one-time passion for Bill . |
| 23 | But they made me feel great , I told them , " I want to live here . " |
| 24 | During a run in a Neil Simon play , I struggled with soft lenses but they made me cry constantly — which was unfortunate , as Neil tends to expect laughs . |
| 25 | They did not threaten me personally , but they made it clear that they could kill us all . |
| 26 | But they made it , and beached the ships , made fires and tended the wounded . |
| 27 | But they made it to the boat , which sailed in the early hours of 1 September , two days before war was declared . |
| 28 | But they made it grow , did n't they ? |
| 29 | But they made it — it 's been made — more complicated . |
| 30 | But they made it clear they hoped he would soon be on his way to the United States . |