Example sentences of "but they [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they wasted a good position at to two to lose the next eight for runs , the North Down bowlers sharing the wickets evenly . |
| 2 | But they speak a language far removed from the home , the street , and the playground . |
| 3 | But they paused a moment outside and Lizzie said quietly , ‘ Does he always take his bath with her ? ’ |
| 4 | In the Devonian period the nautiloids were still abundant and varied , but they suffered a slow eclipse coincident with the rise of the ammonoids . |
| 5 | In themselves they were by no means new — they were indeed centuries old — but they constituted a direct challenge to the rather abstract and clear-cut penal theory which was much subscribed to on both sides of the Atlantic , and to this extent also reflected something of the atmosphere of the new age . |
| 6 | Her favourite partner was her father ; neither of them could serve to save their lives and most of the balls ended up scattered on the lawn , but they made a handsome couple on the court . |
| 7 | you know , there 's no vow there , but all we do is join hands together , share blessings to both of us , and no vow , we never make any vow but they made a blessing for us . |
| 8 | But they made a good offer . |
| 9 | But they made a great thing with the salt fish . |
| 10 | But they made a costly mistake in teaching their language to the hoipolloi . |
| 11 | Great chart success has eluded the band , but they made a dent on the charts two years ago with Nothing Ever Happens . |
| 12 | Now I ca n't remember which English player it was , either Bobby Moore or Norman Hunter , I think it was Norman Hunter because he played for Leeds , but they made a mistake and they scored a breakaway goal . |
| 13 | SYDNEY WOODERSON and Zola Budd did not have much in common but they knew a special achievement and a peculiar failure . |
| 14 | But they knew a little bit more than to put the together . |
| 15 | Special anti-condensation and anti-fungicide paints are available , but they contain a range of harmful chemicals and are best avoided . |
| 16 | The oldest pieces of amber we have date from a hundred million years ago , a very long time after the conifers and the flying insects first appeared , but they contain a huge range of creatures , including representatives of all the major insect groups that we know today . |
| 17 | All these are very much in the comic-book idiom that dominates the film throughout — including the dialogue — but they require a degree of realism and detail unnecessary in the freer graphic comic medium . |
| 18 | But they commanded a stronger sense of political direction and greater willingness to take an active part in the zemstvos than the more conservative majority . |
| 19 | I do n't know whether other oldies have the same sort of dreams , but they bring a very great compensation ; and you wake up feeling very excited having met your old friends again . ’ |
| 20 | But they heard a footstep on the stairs and Jenny rose swiftly , smoothing down her dress . |
| 21 | But they had a tiring game on Sunday , energy reserves began to run low and the tourists hit back with tries from Taewa ( 2 ) , Leota and Kuiti . |
| 22 | That lunchtime they had told him their research was complete , but they had a day spare and were enjoying themselves . |
| 23 | There were those who promoted the idea much earlier , but they had a limited following . |
| 24 | They were also mainly peasant economies , but they had a significant number of industrial enterprises ( many of which were the ancestors of today 's ‘ organizations of associated labour ’ ) . |
| 25 | But they had a joint bank mortgage on the bungalow . |
| 26 | ‘ But they had a letter explaining why . |
| 27 | Villains they might be , but they had a certain code of practice and the rule was that you looked after your own kind . |
| 28 | Erm but er when the war finished , when the war finished and the Home Guard stood down , I ca n't remember who was the mayor of Walsall at the time , but they had a reception in the town hall for the Home Guard and everyone that was in the Home Guard was invited before we hand before we st handed our uniforms in , was invited to attend and I must say with great pride that I was can still remember it now , that the wife and I went to the reception and I was in the uniform and it 'd be the mace bearer I presume that was at the door and he asked your name and er rank and he shouted out your name and rank when you went in and you was greeted by the mayor and mayoress inside the ves the hall of the town hall , and erm I mean er quite proud to be Corporal and Mrs you know and it I mean everyone that went , I mean their rank and name and who was with them , you know , was it was quite quite a er er quite a something of to look back to of interest that was , you know , when we stood down . |
| 29 | But they had a lively fear that enclosure might rob them of their valuable rights — rights which made a real difference to their standard and their mode of living — in the interests of the large freeholders and a corporation known to be corrupt . |
| 30 | But they had a Tsarist treasure hidden there — that desk set . |