Example sentences of "[adv] but he [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 There was only one person inside but he could n't make out who it was .
2 ‘ Not necessarily but he wo n't sell , Mrs Sutherland , and like I say , he 's not here . ’
3 The man got away but he may have left a vital clue .
4 Well he 's gone away but he will be back .
5 He never does normally but he might do it today .
6 you this turtle as an incentive cos you 're giving him the turtle anyway but he wo n't know that unless his mum 's told him .
7 You see you 're , yo , make sure you 're going backwards but he 'll keep going forwards so I would n't listen to him Ian otherwise you 'll end up losing .
8 Rose would call teasingly but he would have gone with a slam of the door .
9 She would recognise him when he made his approach , would know he had been behaving deviously but he would be straight into devious matters anyway .
10 BIG-PUNCHING Robin Reid faces five rivals at Crayford tonight but he wo n't be landing a glove on them !
11 Not only is he going to see the WWF fans in action at Wembley stadium tonight but he will get to shake hands with his all-time hero , Bret ‘ Hitman ’ Hart .
12 The Consul General would have given a great deal to stop this exchange going any further but he could hardly say anything without worsening the situation for himself .
13 Auntie Lou was going to see her friend yesterday but he would n't let her because once when she went , she and this friend went to a dance with some American soldiers .
14 I bought him Coke to take home but he wo n't want this he wants his Coke .
15 They 'd been out and er I do n't know who they 'd been with like but he must of had a bit to drink .
16 Marks must have retired long since but he might still be around and , on the principle that half an hour 's chat over a beer is worth a whole file of police gobbledegook , Kersey decided to enquire and found that Marks was still extant , sharing a bungalow with his sister and her husband in Newlyn .
17 gets past but he ca n't get past and Shrewsbury are breaking with it but they 're still inside their own half at the moment with Kevin who gave them the fighting chance with the original equalizer inside the first half .
18 ‘ He is n't fit now but he could be by Sunday , ’ added Wilkinson .
19 ‘ He has played out of his skin twice now but he will admit that one-day internationals are a different game to Tests .
20 Take no notice did you ever see a programme about erm , I forget his name now but he used to dance with Sammy Davis er man in he 's nearly seventy now I suppose but him and his brother go to this place in New York and it showed him outside in the street
21 She was looking at him questioningly but he could see she had caught his drift .
22 ‘ He has come on nicely since the Hennessy and has been working well but he could do with a run this week , ’ he added .
23 You may see a guy wandering in and out groups and that 's a guy called Geoff who works for the British National Corpus and these are the people who are trying to have or produce ten million words of the written word and a hundred million erm spoken words , which is a corpus whereby , er come and look at the English language at some time in the future and identify and listen to some of your and your dialects and what you said so make sure you have lots of input as we 've got quite a broad spectrum of different dialects today but he 'll be wandering in and out er throughout today .
24 rung Keith and Keith said he did n't know whether he 'd be able to come today but he 'd do his best .
25 He might have been persuaded to have them out here but he would not let them be any sort of nuisance , and she was well aware of it .
26 There were a couple of splits of champagne there but he would drink no more until this was resolved .
27 We can have one from there to there but he ca n't have one here .
28 She got into her car and pointed it homewards , and , unable to see who else but he would have contacted Paul Fisher 's head of department , she unexpectedly started to feel quite kindly disposed to Naylor Massingham .
29 We have got a long road ahead but he will get fit because he is so determined . ’
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