Example sentences of "but he [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked at him and felt his pain , but he had shut her out again . |
| 2 | It had been worse than he had expected , but he had seen it through and without disgrace . |
| 3 | There had been strange lights and incantations , the sacrifice of a black cock at midnight , but he had cleared them out and barred the graveyard , threatening the congregation with the pains of excommunication in this life and Hell fire in the next . |
| 4 | He knew the bad bits existed , but he had edited them out . |
| 5 | There was no particular reason why he should have acted as honest broker in this affair , but he had taken it on , and had been quite pleased with himself when he seemed to have brought things off . |
| 6 | It was a bad cut , but he 'd shrugged it off . |
| 7 | He 'd tried several , imitating his Mum 's signature but he 'd scrumpled them up and put them in the waste paper basket . |
| 8 | He said hardly anything , I knew he really did n't want to be with us ( with Caroline ) but he 'd caught us up ; he ca n't have spotted from behind who we were , he was obviously going the same way . |
| 9 | Chips with them Morrisons ' chips , and they are really lovely but he 'd left them in |
| 10 | Erm and all manner of people have been invited to participate and Aston was and I think got this initially but he 's passed it on to me er so er yeah anyway let's let's see if I can get the thing rolling again . |