Example sentences of "but [conj] he [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was no longer that he had been a member of the murder gang , but that he had presided over a meeting of UDA officers in order to plan it . |
| 2 | In sentencing him , Justice Kemal Bokhary said that the offences committed by Li had been " very serious indeed " but that he had taken into account the accused 's good record and his " contributions to the community in the past years " . |
| 3 | The writer remarked that he had ‘ never doubted but that he had succeeded in his place by a commission from the Treasury untill of late that I discovered that he only officiated by orders and an interim warrand from the Commissioners of Customs ’ . |
| 4 | He says the ball is now in their court , but that he hopes to return to science with the company . |
| 5 | When I asked him once whether his FI career had really mattered to him that much , he answered characteristically that of course it had , but that he enjoyed racing in any form , and of all the forms of racing he enjoyed winning best : ‘ I win more over here , ’ he said , adding with a characteristic grin , ‘ and it 's easier . ’ |
| 6 | So deviation is a matter of degree , and at some indefinite point it becomes significant not that a writer has chosen x rather than y or z , but that he has chosen x at all . |
| 7 | His ‘ devils ’ prepare for him notes of his material but once he has gone into court he has to take entire responsibility on his own shoulders . ’ |
| 8 | Sjahrir later acquired the reputation of a resistance leader , but although he refused to collaborate with the Japanese all he really did was to monitor the declining fortunes of Japan on his illegal radio . |
| 9 | He played a prominent part in the society 's business in the late 1660s and early 1670s , but although he remained associated with practical optics his only communication was a ‘ Discourse on Cider ’ which was printed by John Evelyn [ q.v. ] in his Sylva of 1664 . |
| 10 | ‘ But if he 'd known of this outrage , ’ said Philip , looking from one to the other of them with searching eyes , ‘ the boy would have told me in Isambard 's presence . |
| 11 | If the plaintiff unreasonably refuses a medical examination his action is not struck out , it is stayed ; but if he continues to refuse to be examined the stay continues and , of course , he runs the risk of dismissal for want of prosecution and , additionally , in the county court , of an automatic strike out under Ord 17 , r11(9) . |
| 12 | He was not rebuked because he refused to believe without enough reasons but because he refused to believe with more than enough reasons . |
| 13 | And if Jesus was around today he would be going to the places that you and I would think twice about going to , not because he wanted to have a good time , but because he wanted to relate to the people who were there . |
| 14 | ‘ But since he has lied to me about marrying me , I will no longer keep his secrets . ’ |
| 15 | In equal isolation at the Intercontinental Hotel , 16 miles away , Lebanese journalists found themselves restricted to the parliament 's two opening statements and a diet of gentle assurances from Prince Saud al-Feisel , the Saudi Foreign Minister , that optimism was the order of the day , but while he had heard of some disputes in the parliamentary chamber , he had every reason to believe the Lebanese would accept the Arab League peace plan . |
| 16 | But whereas he had come to the conclusion by the beginning of 1936 that Mussolini was probably not the man to play this game , he remained cautiously optimistic that Hitler might be . |
| 17 | The question was not whether the judge had made a wrong decision but whether he had inquired into and decided a matter which he had no right to consider . |
| 18 | One night Major , Deekie as he was known , came down to inspect and the young chappy who was on guard , he challenged him properly er before he allowed him to advance towards him but after he 'd advanced toward him and he 'd been recognized Major says is the rifle alright ? |
| 19 | But though he continued to broadcast for the Nazis throughout the war , he was never to match the growth in fame of the new arrival at Charlottenburg . |
| 20 | But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake . |
| 21 | He blamed political bias , but when he had stood as a Labour candidate in the 1945 elections in which the socialists swept to post-war victory , Hugo had not won his seat . |
| 22 | But when he had leapt off his horse to approach it the chest had sprouted legs and had gone trotting off into the forest , stopping again a few hundred yards away . |
| 23 | Maurice , in the way of business , knew too many , rather than too few , people , but when he imagined living without friends , he sat down with the whisky in the dark . |
| 24 | He did n't mind at first but when he kept bumping into sculptures of boats , animals or castles he became more and more frustrated . |
| 25 | He was so overwhelmed and flattered that he could not argue , but when he started working on the ballet he found that the music ( an orchestrated version of Schubert 's four-handed piano pieces ) ‘ said nothing to me ’ . |
| 26 | But when he tried to get into the maternity wing he found the doors were locked . |
| 27 | But when he did speak at last , his words were a chilling disappointment . |
| 28 | But as he prepared to switch from the more austere environs of the Treasury , where he saw out the final 16 months of the last Tory Government , Mr Mellor spoke of the importance he and the Prime Minister attached to encouraging artistic excellence and preserving the national heritage . |
| 29 | Carson had only just put the phone down after trying to get Alison 's number from Enquiries , but as he 'd waited for his call to be taken he 'd thought of her , perhaps contemptuous of his anxiety and annoyed by his persistence , and he 'd hung up without even making his request . |
| 30 | But as he tried to think of his work ( Charles had long since ceased to grace it with the name of ‘ his career ’ ) , his thoughts kept returning to the Steen situation . |