Example sentences of "but he [verb] [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to grasp what he had been rehearsing but he seemed to have lost it . |
| 2 | Merrill stared at his back , but he seemed to have forgotten her presence . |
| 3 | She had n't been keeping track of the conversation , but he seemed to have pulled himself together over the past few minutes . |
| 4 | But he seemed to want to explain something . |
| 5 | But he had cut do you see , all on the inside , and left along the roadside . |
| 6 | But he had stopped trusting his thoughts . |
| 7 | Long 's health had been deteriorating for years , but he had kept open his channels of communication ; like Law his influence was based on years of devotion to the interests of the party , and like Law 's that influence had been used to argue the case for coalition . |
| 8 | It might have been better at Vladimir for Holly than for the zeks herded into the communal cell blocks , but he had learned to eat what food was provided . |
| 9 | It would have been better to cover them with a tarpaulin , but he had forgotten to bring one , perhaps . |
| 10 | With agitated fingers , his father felt in his shirt pocket for a cigarette , but he had forgotten to bring them from the kitchen . |
| 11 | But he had demanded to know what it was , and finally poor Louise had been obliged to explain what had happened . |
| 12 | ‘ The reasons for this decision have not become apparent at this trial ’ ( they had but he had chosen to ignore them ) and he then attacked the Secretary of State for what he called ‘ usurping the functions of the judiciary ’ , apparently ignorant that recommendations for free pardons have always been vested in the executive . |
| 13 | But he had chosen to serve his womenfolk with constancy . |
| 14 | This was her second-time marriage to Burton , and he had promised her he 'd give up drinking , but he had failed to keep his word , so she left . |
| 15 | I did n't know it at the time , but he had come to prepare us for the move to England . |
| 16 | He told the jury yesterday that he had never threatened her with his truncheon , but he had offered to use it as a sexual aid . |
| 17 | But he 'd risked losing everything else too . |
| 18 | But he does want to get something sorted before the end of January . |
| 19 | * So I 've been a bad boy at times but they reckon I ca n't walk out on a job if I 'm in the Jungle and Matt 's temperamental which means he does n't normally work unless they give him a hamper full of white powder but he seems to have kicked it and there are n't too many dealers swinging through the trees like Tarzan out here . |
| 20 | There 's a lot of very good stuff here but he seems to have gathered it up in armfuls and just bundled it in anywhere . |
| 21 | He is separated from his wife but he has tried to abduct his daughter . |
| 22 | Not only is it believed that God , through creation and revelation , has made known His will for humankind , a will revealed to us supremely through the words and actions of Jesus Christ , but He has continued to guide His church . |
| 23 | He could n't recall his exact words — he suspected they were cutting — but he did remember holding his fingers against one nostril to blot out the stench of her Cologne . |
| 24 | Now that 's not what President Eisenhower wanted , I 've just read out this quotation , it 's the last thing I want to do he says but he 's driven to do it because the state governor refused to accept the arguments that , that Eisenhower put to him . |
| 25 | But he 's got to do it on Access because there 's no money in the bank to write a cheque out and pay for the suit . |