Example sentences of "but they [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These Odonata may never have been on Earth before , but they circled the Nuria II in an assured way and then set off northwards towards Australia with leisurely beats of their wings . |
| 2 | The tiny protection parties for these three squads were down to 10 men through casualties before landing , but they led the way , stifling small arms fire from near the burning Forge de l'Ouest , then clearing an enemy trench in a skirmish round a dockside crane . |
| 3 | .. made its way below , a hole would burst in the ship ; not that they feared the ship taking fire , but they thought the light was the work of evil spirits ... ’ |
| 4 | Again , they could have gone into the supermarket , but they thought the police had had a good look at them , so they sprinted through the crowds who took as little notice as they expected , and across the street just after the lights had changed 50 that the traffic beginning to move , hooted . |
| 5 | The Polish presence in the city may have been small , but they made the most of it . |
| 6 | They could see no enemy in the long-shadowed landscape , but they knew the ambushers had to be close . |
| 7 | You could also find some letters that were confused , they did n't share common features but they sounded the same and they tended to be confused as well There was a lot of enthusiasm from the work of the neuro-psychologist th with the discovery of cells which appeared to be sensitive to particular features . |
| 8 | The immediate cause of the split was the constitutional changes taking place in the Labour Party ; it was not that the Gang of Four and their sympathizers objected to reforms which improved internal party democracy , but they opposed the particular type of reform which was designed to strengthen the position of Left-wing elements in the Labour movement . |
| 9 | They were hot and prickly to wear , and impossible to keep clean , but they charmed the child so thoroughly that she was content to sit as still and silent as a doll eyeing the dazzling frills and listening to the faint crackle of the underskirts . |
| 10 | But they recognised the ambiguities , and based their paper on wider evidence , and were prompted by concern for conservation . |
| 11 | There was nobody who remembered the days of churches where people assembled for religious ceremonies , but they resented the idea of a TOM replacing the function of the antique building set aside for sacred ceremonies . |
| 12 | These shiny , silver-coloured tins may be an unusual choice , but they fitted the scheme perfectly . |
| 13 | Neither of them had much appetite but they finished the wine . |
| 14 | still there , but they finished the main building |
| 15 | ‘ My family did not see it but they heard the noise of the explosions . |
| 16 | Antony rose , but they heard the door being opened before he left the room . |
| 17 | The Americans must have felt as if he was taking revenge on them for what had happened , but they had the final laugh since most of Rank 's films were n't very good . |
| 18 | Sweden 's Maria Gretzer , on Marcopille , was one but they had the next fence down and were among 10 sharing third place with four faults . |
| 19 | Bath had felt it the week before but they had the experience and strength to overcome it . |
| 20 | But they had the foresight to prepare themselves financially in case one ever did . |
| 21 | The wages for guards was very low , a mere 16 shillings ( 80p ) a week , but they had the advantage of making as much again in tips . |
| 22 | Clients in Ipswich were a little older than in Newham , but they had the same mean OBS score ( see Table 2.3 ) . |
| 23 | We could have been 20 points up in the opening 10 minutes , but they had the pace and the organisation to shut us out . |
| 24 | to do erm wallpaper and we , we loved and wallpaper and you , is there , you could n't see the book anywhere , er probably in London you could , but erm round here you could n't , but they had the book down here . |
| 25 | I knew what they were doing , but they had the authority . |
| 26 | These ideas failed to allow for Austrian objections to Russian gains in the Balkans and grossly exaggerated the inclination of the Balkan Slavs to fight for their freedom , but they had the virtue of giving the tsar time to negotiate . |
| 27 | But they illustrated the difficulty of purging language of all causal terminology . |
| 28 | As the figure shows , the subjects came to respond only when the tone was on , but they formed the discrimination less rapidly than control subjects that had not received pre-exposure . |
| 29 | They argued that the dysgenic effects were not as great as this figure , since the difference in intelligence between social classes was not that great , but they accepted the logic of an argument based on differential fertility by social class . |
| 30 | But they served the basic purpose well enough to give the investigators a continuous record of the flight parameters , albeit on a rather small scale . |