Example sentences of "but he [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man is very good at making widgets , he makes widgets , but he does n't tell his bank that he 's doing well . |
| 2 | I mean , I do n't want to er , betray my partner here but erm , I mean he does his share but he does n't do his full share . |
| 3 | In the warm-up , Niki is three tenths of a second faster than Prost , but he does n't like his engine and gets it changed . |
| 4 | He keeps his back to me but he does n't cancel his offer . |
| 5 | A discourse analyst may regularly work with extended extracts of conversational speech , for example , but he does not consider his data in isolation from the descriptions and insights provided by sentence-grammarians . |
| 6 | ‘ My dad builds houses but he did n't build my house . |
| 7 | Oh , oh , her lie bounced off him , but he did n't like her arrogance one little bit , she could tell . |
| 8 | You know , Jesus did n't spend his days , he went to the synagogue , it was his custom , but he did n't spend his days and nights in the synagogue , he went to the parties . |
| 9 | But he did n't shut his eyes that time , he was looking at me and I was embarrassed . |
| 10 | They were amused by him for a while but he did n't keep his place . |
| 11 | I wish I 'd not had to lie to my poor Norman , but he did n't question my story about a long-lost godchild and assured me he had no need of my money . |
| 12 | He wondered why Lessingham had described Gledhill 's death as murder but he did n't question his companion further . |
| 13 | So she nodded in agreement , but he did n't release her wrist . |
| 14 | But he did not think her condition critical . |
| 15 | I tried to answer the King as well as I could , but he did not think our system was a good one . |
| 16 | Hoomey , for a moment or two , was tempted to say , ‘ Come back with me and we 'll watch the soccer replay on the box , ’ but he did not think his mother would approve of Nails — not if she knew . |
| 17 | His eyes slid round to look at her , but he did not pursue his earlier tirade . |
| 18 | He did not believe that any such combinations would work , but he did not close his mind on continuing consultation . |
| 19 | ‘ He knew we were watching his mother , but he did not know his wife had told us where he 'd hidden her . ’ |
| 20 | In the cemetery he became aware of Mick Smith walking by his side , but he did not acknowledge his presence in any way . |
| 21 | That some would come with very bad intentions proved the truth and a person under the assumed character of a man of rank deceived and married the unsuspecting Sally but he did not survive his villanies villanies . |
| 22 | He saw her mouth open , but he did not hear her scream . |
| 23 | He looked at Lissa , but he did not need her silent confirmation . |
| 24 | The second specialist who had been called in — a man by the name of Adams — had assured Brian that his wife would recover in time , but he did not share his optimism . |
| 25 | One , Lewis Holt , actually worked in Fleming 's laboratory , and took the purification a stage farther than any of the previous workers , but he did not publish his results and again what was achieved at St. Mary 's had to be rediscovered by later workers . |
| 26 | With such small settlements of difference , Davide could cope ; but he did not like his work . |
| 27 | Someone gets to the entry damn fast , but he do n't stick his head round the corner , since with daylight behind him he 's gon na feel like a bullseye on a firing range . |