Example sentences of "but [subord] he [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on a while about the various tests but where he came out was that she 'd been dead for at least five days , and seven was perfectly possible . |
| 2 | But where he spells out ( sometimes in capitals or in italics ) the implications of his observation , she leaves her readers to make their own deductions . |
| 3 | Caruth , out of the rink since last August , was slow to warm up but once he shook off the cobwebs he looked the winner all the way . |
| 4 | But although he looked down on Nuri he also looked up at him , and because of that Nuri had a unique ability to touch Mahmoud on the raw . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's not quite there yet but if he keeps on improving as he 's doing , it wo n't be long . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But if he went out flailing with the score at 0-1 in a Test and got out , he would be crucified . |
| 7 | but if he comes in with some work , you can keep on the check of the standard that they 're up |
| 8 | But if he paid off that someone else , why would they kill him ? |
| 9 | But if he rips out all the electrical fittings then he is a nutter . |
| 10 | But if he winds up running his film company the way he has so far run his restaurant , he may find himself forced to serve up more and more celluloid ham just to keep things afloat . |
| 11 | But because he went back to help her , he was badly injured in the fire , losing a hand and the sight of both eyes . |
| 12 | But because he turned down an out of court settlement of £10,000 in August , his financial backers , the RCN , now face paying a large share of a costs bill of around £25,000 . |
| 13 | It was an illusion of tired eyes , but before he got back in the car he stood , his collar open , looking up at the sky where there was nothing to see but black , and let the water splash down on his open face , his wet shirt clinging to the skin of his chest and belly . |
| 14 | But after he sat down and thought about it he came in and apologised to the lads . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But after he sat down and thought about it he has come in and apologised to the lads and realised he maybe should not have said it . |
| 16 | His voice had hardened briefly as he added the caution , but when he went on again it was low and musing . |
| 17 | The injured man fainted but when he came round he managed to dislodge his hand from the fence and made his way home with the blade still stuck in the wound . |
| 18 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 19 | ‘ I said to the grave digger , in conversation with him , ‘ Look , are you in the right plot ? ’ and his answer was the priest told him to dig the grave opposite Patrick 's but when he came along he 'd seen there was already a burial there , who was the sister Annie , but had seen this vacant plot next door , so he had dug the vacant one . |
| 20 | But when he came along to tell her it was dinnertime he persuaded her to come down . |
| 21 | erm And erm when he came back after the war , he actually was so much involved on the parliamentarian side he had to leave Oxford during the war , but when he came back he built a school in the city which was actually in the Guildhall courtyard , it was built round the courtyard , and that remained a free school , for the city 's boys right up to the end of the 19th century . |
| 22 | And er I I think they they were , most of them went to jail and I think did , but when he came down here he , he beat . |
| 23 | But when he came down he was different , |
| 24 | Nails had hoped Biddy would have foregone her offer to meet him out of school the next day , or at least be late so that he would have a chance of escaping her clutches , but when he came out she was there outside the gate on her motor-bike , and there was no escaping . |
| 25 | But when he strolled out into the front drive , Mr McWhirter was being decanted from a neighbour 's car at the front gate . |
| 26 | ‘ I do trust George completely ’ Annette went on ‘ I just have to with his work and so much he ca n't tell me but when he come back in that state I just could n't help … |
| 27 | But when he arrives down under , the simple enquiry leads to other more disturbing questions . |
| 28 | But when he glanced down at his chest , he saw to his intense relief the smashed casing and circuitry of his radio showing through torn material . |
| 29 | But when he stepped up on to the conductor 's rostrum for the opening production of a new season , he was — every time — filled with a sense of sheer elation . |
| 30 | But when he stepped out of the Humber Snipe which had been sent to pick him up he found that the building was in darkness and apparently deserted . |