Example sentences of "[adj] but he [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah now you think about it , I mean there was this question in our maths test and I was chatting to him in the dinner queue about it and I was going yeah it was this and he goes oh you 're probably right and he was agreeing with me and I found out later that I was wrong but he still agreed with me . |
| 2 | Luke may have been popular but he never plucked up courage to get the girl of his dreams . |
| 3 | He does n't , you know , talk about all the hardships she 's had , and it 's been very difficult for all tho , he is absolutely straight but he still deals with her in love and compassion ! |
| 4 | And in a sense , he actually very neatly defined several different points without getting his knickers in a twist , and wearing different hats it would be so easy to come out with a muddled thing which would end up by being him feeling uncomfortable but him also being part of the Government and the Atomic Energy Authority . |
| 5 | Paatelainen had only been introduced as a substitute but he certainly made his presence felt in no uncertain manner with his 56th minute strike . |
| 6 | Mike 's style was somewhat ungainly but he always gave one hundred per cent and his 23 goals in Division Four ( from just 34 appearances ) in 1958–59 established a post-war scoring record , only improved upon at our club by Johnny Byrne and Roy Summersby in the promotion season of 1960–61 , Mark Bright in 1987–88 and Ian Wright in 1988–89 . |
| 7 | His knowledge of the Bible was minimal but he soon made up for it . |
| 8 | Ian , who comes from Darlington , intended to take things steady with his Honda CBR 600 but he still ended up challenging the leaders . |
| 9 | Although Peter my friend 's he , he did that but er it did n't come to much , they 'd 've saved it or something , one job , cos he was made redundant about three times and er one , one place he was at they 're supposed to have kept it and paying him it now but I do n't know how they came about that bu because actually they we played him a dirty trick , they persuaded him to leave his job and then about nine years or probably less than that later you know and he was out again , redundant and , you know , I think they felt a bit guilty but he only gets about five pounds a week from , off that one , which is |
| 10 | and he said you know , he said they have n't been turning up at that chapel for them , when they 've preaching but you did n't crack on they knew anything about that but he just sort of said said no you know remain non-committal . |
| 11 | I do n't know though I mean he , he 's , he 's allowed that , he allowed that the fact that they could of been unarmed men and all that but he also condemned three of them on the evidence of this lead which he really should n't of done , he should of left an open verdict on those few cos lead could be transferred to . |
| 12 | Peter Alliss might have given up competitive golf in the early 1970s but he still a formidable force out on the course . |
| 13 | I do n't know I 'm sure but he never mentioned it anyway . |
| 14 | He declared that his large diamond rings were his investment ; they probably were as after his ‘ crash ’ some disappeared but he still maintained his two houses . |
| 15 | When he first wrote about this , Poulantzas rather disarmingly remarked that there was no theoretical homogeneity between these two notions ; ii but he later took pains to explain that structures and class practices are not ‘ ontologically distinct domains ’ . |
| 16 | The photograph he wanted was all crushed and curled but he soon healed it with a squeeze of his fist … |
| 17 | He went to work for the Gas Light & Coke Company at Beckton in 1908 but he soon chafed at not being given the free rein to which he had become accustomed at Davis Bros . |
| 18 | His once trim body has fallen victim to one fundraising lunch too many but he still looks very much the explorer with his classic square jaw and steely blue eyes . |
| 19 | He 's starving but he just does n't seem to know it . |
| 20 | She was afraid Major Harper would be angry but he only smiled , blue eyes twinkling . |
| 21 | No he 's not small but he just does n't look the type that would fight . |
| 22 | ‘ Everyone started laughing and I was concerned that ‘ Jacki ’ might feel alienated but he immediately started laughing himself and I knew I 'd signed a character who 'd get on fine in Scotland . ’ |
| 23 | It was strange for him at first but he soon came to enjoy it and did his best to improve the sporting standards and attitudes . |
| 24 | He was careful at first but he soon started to leap about and dash off in all directions . |
| 25 | Well the the idea of farming was much the same but he certainly was not very much of a farmer . |
| 26 | He claimed he had n't any but he jolly well had ! |
| 27 | He might be young but he still had a highly developed sense of humour . |
| 28 | Gedge found the experience of sacking Shaun Charman very traumatic but he still had the resolution to see it through . |
| 29 | The people at the farm he was hired to were very sympathetic but he still had all his work to do before he could get away . |
| 30 | The Marquess married his wife Becky in 1990 but he now lives apart from her and their son . |