Example sentences of "[adj] but [subord] he be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her real sweetheart was an alcoholic but although he was her one and only true love she had impetuously married a solicitor . |
| 2 | Well if he keeps , if he looks after the car and keeps himself right och it 'll be okay but if he 's gon na mess about and wreck the car well he 's he 's no way of getting to work . |
| 3 | Marie Claire had married an Egyptian but since he was rich and cultured my mother had n't minded and had continued with the friendship . |
| 4 | Rachel stared at her sister in silence , shocked by what she had just heard , not so much by the fact that Paul Mason had been married but because he was as different from David Markham as it was possible for a man to be , and none of them had even suspected what had been happening . |
| 5 | She had been right to say it was people like that who do terrible things , and if Timothy Gedge did do terrible things it would not be because he was different and exotic but because he was possessed of an urge to become so . |
| 6 | He says oh yes I 'm very disappointed but if he 's a sick man you ca n't expect him to get up in front of 6,000 people . |
| 7 | The creature , although ugly , was intelligent but when he was rejected by his creator and by the people he helps ; he became an outsider who turned to violence and sought revenge on his creator . |