Example sentences of "but he [be] [adv] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ryland Davies is a fluent and musically amiable Jenik , but he is plainly not at home in the long and crucial stretches of middle-to-low register that Smetana throws at him ; and the same is true of David Owen 's otherwise rather stylish Vasek . |
| 2 | Patrick 's a nice man , you 're right there , but he is also just on the verge of being a criminal . ’ |
| 3 | Turnell has entered Country Member for the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup but he is well out of the handicap and extremely unlikely to run . |
| 4 | Mr Belcher said the only member of the Prime Minister 's household to regularly patronise them was son James , but he is now away at school . |
| 5 | Powerful New Zealand Test forward George Mann has hardly had the best of luck with injury , but he is now back in action and ready to challenge for a regular first team place again . |
| 6 | But he 's slightly ahead of some of the others because he had three weeks with me last summer and I saw a lot of him . ’ |
| 7 | Listen , I love him , but he 's just not to be trusted . ’ |
| 8 | But he 's certainly not in his seventies ! |
| 9 | But he was already out of the car , ignoring her faltering explanation . |
| 10 | She turned to express some of her thanks to him , but he was already out of the car and round by the passenger door opening it for her . |
| 11 | It 's not that he did n't say it , but he was somewhere else at the time , and he just heard the bit of it , he heard the back end of it . |
| 12 | Cagney 's class credentials were as impeccable as those of Bickford and Beery but he was never really to be a worker ; he was a city man and it was the pace , wit , style , and electricity of the city that Cagney now seized on as his hallmark . |
| 13 | Productivity he achieved — by 1925 a third of the films made in Britain came from Stoll 's studios at Cricklewood — but he was never anywhere near achieving his intention to ‘ leave American buyers convinced of England 's ability to deliver the goods . ’ |
| 14 | He was never good enough to make the team , but he was always there on the sidelines cheering and managing . |
| 15 | The sun and Steve 's gorge had risen together , but he was now back in bed . |
| 16 | She went off on a determined search for Penry , but he was still nowhere to be seen . |
| 17 | But he was still there at the bell to collect a tight decision ( 58–58 ) . |
| 18 | He just missed selection for boat race crew named earlier this week , but he was still in with a chance of a late place . |