Example sentences of "but he [verb] [vb pp] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not thought my friends dull , but he had made them seem so . |
| 2 | He 'd made mistakes , but he had salvaged them . |
| 3 | There had been strange lights and incantations , the sacrifice of a black cock at midnight , but he had cleared them out and barred the graveyard , threatening the congregation with the pains of excommunication in this life and Hell fire in the next . |
| 4 | But he had locked them in last night and he had done so on orders from the Gruagach so they did not dare rely on him . |
| 5 | But he had advised them not to contact him when they arrived in Bucharest . |
| 6 | He knew the bad bits existed , but he had edited them out . |
| 7 | But he had left them the inestimable advantage of the eighty Normans on their strong horses . |
| 8 | There had been women but he had taken them almost absent-mindedly and dropped them equally absent-mindedly . |
| 9 | But he 'd destroyed them . |
| 10 | Probably Sam kept good tools somewhere , but he 'd hidden them away . |
| 11 | He 'd tried several , imitating his Mum 's signature but he 'd scrumpled them up and put them in the waste paper basket . |
| 12 | Chips with them Morrisons ' chips , and they are really lovely but he 'd left them in |
| 13 | But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) . |
| 14 | He said it 's you know it 's it 's it 's not easily done but he 's seen them quite a lot . |
| 15 | . He said but he 's blown them , smoked them and bought some new pistons for it and erm , done it , he 's brilliant ! |
| 16 | So I said to the bloke in the shop have you got some shoes he can put , so they had to do it with his trainers on , but he 's made them extra long cos he 's trainer 's is that much bulkier , so er , I said to , he ca n't do it . |