Example sentences of "but he [adv] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | You ca n't help but notice some lousy couplets , but he invariably ends in style , spitting the final words , crumpling his lines , and discarding them with a terse ‘ that 's it ’ . |
| 2 | But he normally sticks to brackets rather than , he 's got X is it X squared plus four , it 's exactly the same . |
| 3 | But he just jumps from |
| 4 | Ian 's temperament is something he is working on and we 've been working on all the time , but he just seems to be getting maximum publicity at the moment . ’ |
| 5 | Hilton sees this destruction as a continual process , but he also recognises in it a major stage that other mystics call the " dark night of the senses " a particularly sharp period of suffering during which the will is firmly dislodged from false values and reoriented towards God . |
| 6 | Mostly he is talking about a period before the war but he also refers to the uprising against the Germans in 1912 , and some events immediately after the last war , and to a man he describes as his brother . |
| 7 | But he also mates with several other young females who take turns in coming to the nest and adding their own contributions to the clutch that he is incubating . |
| 8 | Bub , an army vet , vaguely remembers how to salute and shoot — but he also responds in some physical way to books and Beethoven , learning how to operate the controls of a Walkman ( again , the actor 's contribution ) . |
| 9 | But he also looks at topics such as costing , budgeting , overhead allocation and investment decisions , which give his work a broader scope than most . |
| 10 | In other words , when he was talking about psychology , and these are quotes from Darwin 's Expression of the Emotions , Darwin not only refers to acquired characteristics , which he believes in , but he even refers to evolution by will . |
| 11 | ‘ He would n't drink when he was travelling at all , but now I have found that he 'll drink if you put the bucket on the floor , but he utterly refuses to if you hold the bucket up to him … ’ . |
| 12 | That 's basically for editing purposes , so that , if the editor , he likes the general tenor of what you 've said but he perhaps wants to , he wants to chop a little bit out or he wants to put that sentence up there , he 's got somewhere that he can actually , he can actually do his editing . |
| 13 | Poulantzas thus constructs what appears at first to be a morass of categories in continual flux ; but he then extracts from it a pattern of relations which he regards as constant . |
| 14 | Mr Barry Engel says that the Isle of Man 's liberal tax structure can be used to save more money , but he usually counsels against it , to avoid arousing the curiosity of the American taxman . |
| 15 | He said no , so I said do n't lie to me yes you did , I said you just said you did n't know if he kicked her or not , and this argument went on , Danny ended up in tears and I ended up really angry so I said well I 'll go down then , leaving all the kids screaming fuming , but he actually knocks on the door now . |
| 16 | But he actually lives in Ascot , which is a mere four miles away . ’ |
| 17 | But he still belongs to Antoinette , she thought achingly . |
| 18 | He does n't , you know , talk about all the hardships she 's had , and it 's been very difficult for all tho , he is absolutely straight but he still deals with her in love and compassion ! |
| 19 | A conventional outlook dominates his approach , but he still thrives on variety . |
| 20 | I do n't mean to be horrible or anything but he really gets on my nerves ! |
| 21 | Stoddards Carpets Maintenance Worker Robert Kerr could never be accused of being a high flyer — but he certainly seems to be producing a few . |
| 22 | In dealing with compositions , it 's like meeting a person ; the person has certain characteristics , maybe he is kind , perhaps there are certain possibilities within him — unexplored potential — but he only functions within certain confinements . |
| 23 | I know , but he always sits on Emma and |
| 24 | A small trainer like me has a job to tick over , let alone make a living , but he always comes to the rescue . |
| 25 | But he never succumbs to what Max Scheler termed ressentiment — that mixture of resentment and anger and injured pride that destroys so many , even if it were present in earlier years . |
| 26 | I think he knows about Erik , but he never talks about him . |
| 27 | He puts in loads of time but he never talks about it . ’ |
| 28 | but he never talks to me about them |
| 29 | His real name is Bruce but he never answers to it . ’ |