Example sentences of "but they have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah told her that her father and John had been discussing the possibility of war with Germany , but they had hastily changed the subject when her mother came in . |
| 2 | But they had n't done any harm . |
| 3 | The clerk behind the hatch asked for their empties before she 'd hand over the new bottles but they had n't got them . |
| 4 | I had seen newspaper photos of him since his release from the psikhushka , but they had n't prepared me for his gauntness , pallor , baldness . |
| 5 | M. B. The Federation helped us but they had n't any teeth . |
| 6 | He had already put out feelers with local employers but they had n't been too keen on employing a well-known agitator ; even those who seemed sympathetic to the anti-nuclear cause did n't actually have work on offer . |
| 7 | So I turned on the TV to find the news , but they had n't found out who had been on board yet |
| 8 | He paled for an instant , thinking perhaps that his socks had slid down , but they had n't . |
| 9 | Benny heard from Patsy that the Healys had been up to Dublin to look for a child to adopt but they had n't got one because Mr Healy had a weak chest . |
| 10 | But they had n't known that then , and if they had could not have known how much one day such postcards would have supported the story Adam was beginning to think he would tell . |
| 11 | There were the initials GWE/BW typed at the top of the letter but they had n't helped . |
| 12 | Marseille 's foreign stars , Croat Alen Boksic and German international Rudi Voeller had earlier fired the Frenchmen into what looked an unassailable lead , but they had n't counted on Rangers ' indomitable spirit . |
| 13 | But they had n't considered the rest of the poem , which was the ultimate feminist statement . |
| 14 | St Matthew 's had liaised with the Refuge about Harry but they had n't known what to suggest . |
| 15 | They 'd stretched him , but they had n't snapped him . |
| 16 | But they had n't conceived him as a duty , merely to increase the number of Imperials on the planet . |
| 17 | In interview , the head of science offered these illuminating insights into the way the library project had stimulated book awareness and book selection among staff in his department : A lot of the time teachers did n't know what was available and said " The science shelf is over there " , but they had n't actually looked at the titles of the books before … they were quite pleasantly surprised . |
| 18 | But they had n't been near enough . |
| 19 | But they had n't . |
| 20 | It was old news , but they had n't seen each other to talk of it . |
| 21 | But they had n't been made at Fords , they 'd been made in a subsidiary , taken up the road on long trailers , taken off the trailer onto the assembly conveyor , which er crawls round the assembly line and fitted like that . |
| 22 | The line of islanders was entrenched behind burning shrubs on the bank of the stream , at the point where the stockade was indeed vulnerable , but they had n't penetrated beyond it , though they had inflicted damage on the settlement 's defenders . |
| 23 | Oh , they 'd been polite , made him welcome , but they had n't trusted him . |
| 24 | Do you er did but they had n't built a ship in Porthmadog since nineteen thirteen . |
| 25 | Cos there were a lot of losses of course o in after the convoys had been introduced for the ocean thing but they had n't introduced convoys for inshore . |
| 26 | But they had n't finished . ’ |
| 27 | But they had n't got the backup of erm like th the regulator appointed . |
| 28 | But they had n't been born then . ’ |
| 29 | He was acting as if they had a settled relationship , but they had n't . |
| 30 | He said there were 4 potential wage earners in the household but they had n't made any payment for 17 months . |