Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] he [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I made him a vow , ’ she shrugged . |
| 2 | ‘ I thank you , Mr Aycliffe , ’ Theda said drily , ‘ but I know him a little better than that ! ’ |
| 3 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 4 | He made a half-hearted move towards me , but I gave him no encouragement . |
| 5 | I think I said it was a 6-iron or maybe a 7 , but I gave him the yardage and he hit his shot right at the hole . |
| 6 | But she calls him a friend , and I have no objections . |
| 7 | Flaubert was distressed and begged for mercy , but she gave him no quarter . ’ |
| 8 | He tried to start things up in a halfhearted sort of way , but she gave him an ultimatum . |
| 9 | She had been disappointed in her first sight of him , but she gave him an amused little smile , hoping that he was not one who doted on cats . |
| 10 | I said the sharp one this one he 's fairly cheap but they use him a lot , . |
| 11 | He called at the dogs , but they paid him no attention . |
| 12 | But they called him the un-canny Scot . |
| 13 | The airport hotel was an expensive way to live , but they gave him a trade reduction , which seemed the logically absurd extension of a farcical situation . |
| 14 | The plans were sent to the Governors of the Greenwich Hospital , but they gave him no encouragement . |
| 15 | A few people were waiting and one of them called out angrily as Joe stepped in ahead of them all , but he gave him a one-second blast of his sub-zero gaze and said , ‘ Police business , ’ and then he turned his back and forgot the man completely . |
| 16 | As a result he was suspended for two years , which of course delayed his entry into first-class cricket ; but it taught him a lot . |
| 17 | Einstein proposed a simple relationship but it took him a number of years to identify the precise form of the curvature tensor involved . |
| 18 | His dream of covering whole counties with a giant speaking-tube may be grotesque in itself , but it makes him a remote ancestor of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell . |
| 19 | It hardly made him a frequent visitor , but it gave him a few numbers to ring . |
| 20 | He drank heavily , but it gave him no elation , merely intensified his mood . |
| 21 | But it gave him no comfort . |
| 22 | The dialogue tonight might be controlled and rational — but it gave him no ease . |
| 23 | But it gave him an excuse to retire for a while , to re-assess things . |