Example sentences of "[num] but he be " in BNC.

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1 President Zia picked him for prime minister in March 1985 but he was criticised by the opposition for providing a democratic civilian facade to a military dictatorship .
2 Calton left the Army in the late Seventies but he was nothing like the characters from the award-winning TV drama Civvies .
3 Yes , he can continue at that level of a hundred and ninety but he 's obviously going to have to pay more , because he 's only paid for it for ten years , or he can reduce it down to the original amount .
4 Jean-Philippe Ruggia has yet to scrape his elbows on a 500 but he was getting close at Eastern Creek .
5 And also like Braid he had won the Open Championship four times by 1908 but he was to win twice more in 1911 and 1914 .
6 These men should have gone off duty at twelve but he was able to dismiss only two of them whom he could replace with experienced men from the afternoon shift .
7 He had grown another inch or two but he was still plump and rosy , with a solid contented look about him .
8 It is true that Sir Thomas Dugdale insisted on resigning over the Crichel Down case in 1954 but he was not pressed to go .
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