Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] but he be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had grown another inch or two but he was still plump and rosy , with a solid contented look about him . |
| 2 | He may feel he 's in a British Rail nightmare : he will get to his destination some time or other but he 's deeply unhappy about his discomfort while travelling . |
| 3 | My father was maybe in once or twice when I was a boy and he was maybe buying a horse and that but he was very seldom out of the island that I mind . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She adds : ‘ He acts all big and tough but he 's a real softie underneath . |
| 7 | She adds : ‘ He acts all big and tough but he 's a real softie underneath . |
| 8 | As the long days of sunlight drew on Asik became weaker and weaker but he was kept going by an object in the direction of the city which looked like another lorry , but this one was not moving . |
| 9 | They also think he must be dominant , decisive and virile but he 's not , he 's just as he is on the field . |
| 10 | Er , that same prophet Isaiah , in the same chapter , he says surely , our griefs he himself bore , and our sorrows he carried , yet we ourselves esteemed him stricken , smitten of God and afflicted but he was pierced through for our transgressions , he was crushed for inequities , the chastening for our wellbeing fell upon him . |
| 11 | Oh , but that but he is acting the whole time , that 's not him being him . |
| 12 | You should see him , well , he 's so wiry , he 's into everything , how they cope with him , he 's not naughty as such but he 's such erm |