Example sentences of "but [adv] he [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , he was quite relaxed and , as always , full of bonhomie , but somehow he seemed to be looking with far greater intensity towards the past than the present . |
| 2 | The family was against it but still he stuck to her . |
| 3 | But later he awoke to his own cry as creatures from under large old moss-green rocks crawled up his legs , leeching on the white skin , wetly sucking the blood , and above him , ropes , rigging , nets , a gigantic sagging cobweb of strung and re-strung hemp lines , swayed down to trap him ( children crying ) , and wherever he looked the wide mouths of women , no other feature but the mouth , tongues thick and purple as damsons , teeth white as the flecks on fall water and hands , nails curled and black , clawing at him , at his clothes , at his chest , at his face ( children wailing ) , ripping it away , tearing the skin from the skull … |
| 4 | Baldwin had intended to resign at once if Labour got a majority and this was still his instinct , but now he retired to Chequers where on 1 June came Davidson , Eyres Monsell , Austen Chamberlain and Hoare . |
| 5 | Strachan had been his usual sparkling self for much of the game but even he started to f- up . |
| 6 | But even he objected to the idea of a security arrangement imposed by foreign powers . |
| 7 | At The Belfry , Sandy had three good rounds and got into a position to win , but then he thought to himself , ‘ I do n't want to win this week . |
| 8 | But then he began to be rather sorry . |
| 9 | Up to 1844 he lived in Killingworth , but then he moved to Hetton Hall in the county of Durham , and assumed the management of the collieries belonging to the Hetton Coal Company , in which he was a partner . |
| 10 | Richard Nixon had been in the House and the Senate and vice-president for eight years , but ultimately he proved to be a disastrous president . |