Example sentences of "but he [verb] [vb pp] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he got married my sister and lived in house down there and er that 's how I got a job there . |
| 2 | Ali Marwash was not a rich man , but he had loved his daughter and had wrapped her in a Kashmir shawl before interring her . |
| 3 | But he had despised her husband from the beginning . |
| 4 | He may have constructed his Cabinet a little amiss , but he had constructed his power-base superbly . |
| 5 | It could have been the second , but he had swallowed his pride when they had shown him the room that was allocated him . |
| 6 | Ermentrude 's father had originally come from the Worms area , but he had made his career , thanks to imperial favour , in the west . |
| 7 | He had not told her all he knew , she was sure of that , but he had confirmed her deduction about the provenance of the Durance paintings although he had stressed she could prove nothing . |
| 8 | But he had inherited his father 's ability , and he was just getting things straight again when he was badly hit by a prolonged series of dock strikes that tied up his ships and prevented them from earning anything . |
| 9 | He had taken the name of Varna from the name of the port from which he had sailed but he had lived his life in terror of deportation , a fear that had haunted him long after it had ceased to be a real threat , so that he had never been able to enjoy his son 's success , seeing it only as something which drew unwelcome attention to the Varna family . |
| 10 | But he had revised his view by the time he wrote A West-India Fortune ( 1950 ) : there , and in George III and the Politicians , the two approaches were fruitfully combined . |
| 11 | She gave a little whimper of denial , her flat fists pushing against his chest , but he had moved his hand behind her head and was pressing her against him , forcing her lips apart so that he could savage her mouth with his tongue . |
| 12 | Putt was still making choking sounds deep in his throat , but he had recognised his attackers as gipsies and the fear he felt was greater than the pain . |
| 13 | That had been old Ian Paisley last time he was in the old country , but he had popped his clogs of apoplexy while explaining the Fall of Port Stanley to Robin Day on Nationwide and it was that upstart Jeffrey Archer now . |
| 14 | But he had revealed his true colours now — he considered that the Madam 's overwhelming interest in them was merely bad for business . |
| 15 | In the interests of speed and surprise Henry had brought no artillery train with him from Poitiers so Richard was quite safe in the great fortress of Taillebourg , but he had lost his military stores as well as the services of the sixty knights and four hundred archers captured in Saintes . |
| 16 | But he had written his book — the people in Glasgow and Paisley knew it by heart , nearly — now it was up to themselves . |
| 17 | Naturally , he had speculated about Celia 's upbringing , but he had kept his speculations to himself . |
| 18 | With a massive effort she tried to fight him off , but he had locked his hands behind her neck , and all her efforts to squirm out of his grasp were useless . |
| 19 | The prince himself was not a stupid man , basically , according to Mr James , but he had let his mind go and he did n't care . |
| 20 | But he had let his arrow fly , now he must see where it fell . |
| 21 | He could no longer be controlled ; even chains were useless , he had often been fettered and chained up , but he had snapped his chains and broken the fetters . |
| 22 | The meeting at the Presbytery after Benediction had dragged on far too long , but he had caught his bus , and was congratulating himself on being out of the rain , when the conductor had bawled |
| 23 | The butcher 's shop looked right enough , but he had got his meat from Smithfield market , not from the farmer who 'd raised it . |
| 24 | Not only had a pope approved the scholarship of Catholic exegetes , but he had encouraged their endeavours and removed the threat of condemnation by the Church because of their use of modern exegetical method . |
| 25 | Since his experience of captaincy was limited , he had not believed he would be appointed ; but he had had his hopes , and had thought a lot about the team 's problems . |
| 26 | Christina had offered to drive Stephen to the airport , but he had refused her offer in favour of James Morris 's , saying they had a lot to talk about . |
| 27 | But he had used their bathroom and was back in bed again before he realized that he had forgotten to look at his daughter . |
| 28 | Waugh had seen the opportunities of the conte almost twenty years earlier than Orwell ; but he had exhausted his interest before war broke out in 1939 , so that Brideshead and the Sword of Honour trilogy are firmly planted in a revived realistic tradition . |
| 29 | But he had interpreted her remark to mean exactly the opposite . |
| 30 | But he had closed his eyes , breathing fast and shallow under the fever . |