Example sentences of "but he [vb mod] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he would have nothing of Jim 's gloom . |
| 2 | He knew , he said , that he was just an ordinary farmer 's son and she was a famous Beauty , known the county over , never a word spoken against her even by the men who bivouacked up in the fells — but he would have no-one else and would wait just as long as she told him to . |
| 3 | Nora and Mrs. Jarrett protested but he would have none of it : Everyone must come . |
| 4 | But he would concede nothing , and in the end I gave him a dry little bow and thanked him for the tea . |
| 5 | He would fight for anything whatever , but he would sell everything that was worth fighting for . ’ |
| 6 | Which would make it a crime passionnel , and therefore deserving of compassion ; but he would get none . |
| 7 | The trustee is to chair meetings of the committee , but he may nominate someone else to stand in for him and that person must either be an employee of his experienced in insolvency matters or another qualified insolvency practitioner ( r 6.154 ) . |
| 8 | He is shaking his head and pleading not guilty , but he may know something about its origins . |
| 9 | Yeah but he 'll get one . |
| 10 | Well Steven wo n't but he 'll get everyone else to . |
| 11 | Sherlock Holmes is a very clever detective , but he can do nothing about the weather . |
| 12 | For Friday night , but he can have one sort of , first thing Saturday morning . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't think he could be a traditional leading man — he 's got too good a brain — but he can play anything with an edge . ’ |
| 14 | The name came from out of his dreams , but he could make nothing of it . |
| 15 | It was a different story after the break with the Witham defence under pressure throughout with Banks saving a penalty , but he could do nothing when a free kick by McCarthy took a deflection on its way into the net . |
| 16 | He tried to see through the net curtain but he could see nothing . |
| 17 | He thrust the lamp in among the mops and brooms , but he could see nothing . |
| 18 | He stared out to sea , but he could see nothing — only the white tops of the great black waves , and the black clouds above . |
| 19 | His eyes were wide open but he could see nothing . |
| 20 | Rostov peered past the screen at the porthole , but he could see nothing of the surface of the planet . |
| 21 | Alexei glanced across the cistern , but he could see nothing . |
| 22 | The light was much dimmer here , but he could see something , a shape , at its centre . |
| 23 | But he could see none . |
| 24 | Later I even appealed to the Member of Parliament for South Edinburgh , then the redoubtable Sir Will Y. Darling , who always made much of his rôle as an old soldier , to use his position to find out what he could ; but he could find nothing . |
| 25 | Kalchu had gone right round it , feeling its legs and back and stomach , but he could find nothing . |
| 26 | But he could hear nothing except a dull roaring in his ears . |