Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [conj] he [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came as some comfort to me when I was about to leave Dowayoland that the chief of my village said that he would gladly accompany me back to my English village but that he feared a country where it was always cold , where there were savage beasts like the European dogs at the mission , and where it was known there were cannibals . ’ |
| 2 | He told me I was turning into a jealous old queen but before he slammed the phone down he agreed not to tell Mother about the death . |
| 3 | A firemen climbed an extension ladder and edged along the wall but when he reached the scene the yellow-topped fledgeling flew away . |
| 4 | On another occasion he gave chase to someone running down the platform but when he reached the platform end whoever it was or was n't had vanished . |
| 5 | When Cliff went to Bangladesh he was already a member of Tear Fund but when he saw the suffering he felt that he had to do more and was ready to give up his singing career and follow his religious instincts to help these people . |
| 6 | There was a spectacular incident at the finish of the race when Jonathan Aiken , in attempting to squeeze past a bunch of riders at the line , clipped a grass verge and bounced across the track but although he took a nasty looking fall he was uninjured . |