Example sentences of "but he [vb past] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes gleamed , but he imagined it was still to do with the vistas shown to the merchant by the Genius of Riches . |
| 2 | He said he wanted to establish that countries deal with their own waste but he felt it was too early to impose a complete ban on imports . |
| 3 | but he said it 's too much money cos they 're |
| 4 | Sally tried to persuade him to stop but he said it was n't doing him any harm , even though he looked pale and drawn . |
| 5 | But he said it was only when Dr Philip Owen , a Home Office toxicologist , told him on Jan 16 that he learned Mr Threlfall had taken a fatal dose of 90 dextropropoxyphene tablets . |
| 6 | A National Grid spokesman yesterday confirmed negotiations had been going on with landowners but he said it was perfectly normal procedure . |
| 7 | He was wary of it , thinking it might be living , but he saw it was just another machine . |
| 8 | Delia Sutherland closed her fingers around the inside of his elbow with a pressure that could have been the overture to an embrace but he knew it was not . |
| 9 | Some would say none at all , but he knew it was not so . |
| 10 | He had not visited the place he was seeking before , but he knew it was there , and had heard tales of it from numerous acquaintances . |
| 11 | But he knew it was more likely that alien golden eagles would have taken it over and it might not be easy to win it back for his own . |
| 12 | According to Buried Alive , the 1973 biography of the singer by Myra Friedman , Joplin pleaded with Seth to force her to stop taking heroin , but he thought it was simply a play for more attention . |
| 13 | Duncan phoned me on Friday about something else and said oh have we had this tape , so I said yes , and he said have you seen it and I said no not yet , and he said , erm but he thought it was quite good erm |
| 14 | Columbus knew that the world was round but he thought it was much smaller than it really is . |
| 15 | It was a hard philosophy , but he claimed it was both immutable and universal , as true in the fifth Dominion , called Earth , as it was in the Second . |