Example sentences of "but [verb] [subord] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went to cringe back from him but stilled as he started to unbutton his shirt . |
| 2 | He began to stride off , but stopped when he drew level with Jessamy . |
| 3 | She slept deeply while they were on the motorway , but woke as he came into London and had to stop and start in the heavy evening traffic . |
| 4 | There was nothing for it but to do as he suggested . |
| 5 | A second lorry driver Peter Walling later saw a man naked from the waist up scramble up the river bank but disappear when he saw the lorry . |
| 6 | Later he married abroad , and when Margery was about sixty years old brought his German wife and child on a visit to her , but died when he had been in England about a month . |
| 7 | ‘ He told them to leave the house immediately and it would appear that they did not take him seriously but laughed when he said this . |
| 8 | I cursed but did as he requested and afterwards we slipped down the darkened stairway out of the main door where Benjamin had ordered a sleepy-eyed groom to bring round the horses . |
| 9 | Rain doubted this was necessary but did as he wished . |
| 10 | Gould accepted the commission for illustrating the volume on birds for Darwin 's Zoology but left before he saw it completed . |
| 11 | She did not get up and come towards him as he got out , but waited until he had crossed the grass to sit down beside her on the wooden seat . |
| 12 | But see since he went Up There — well , it 's Security , is n't it . |