Example sentences of "but he had [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the heating was off it had been cold , but he had comforted himself with the thought that it was not as cold as it was outside where many of the animals were . |
| 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 | ‘ That job was the adventure , ’ she remembered , but he had deprived her of so much more than just adventure . |
| 5 | He may have constructed his Cabinet a little amiss , but he had constructed his power-base superbly . |
| 6 | It could have been the second , but he had swallowed his pride when they had shown him the room that was allocated him . |
| 7 | She looked at him and felt his pain , but he had shut her out again . |
| 8 | There had been an anonymous telephone call to tell him so , but he had guessed it anyway , mostly because her habit of reversing the responsibility for everything that happened had made her start to behave as though she had herself some gross cause for mistrust . |
| 9 | I had not thought my friends dull , but he had made them seem so . |
| 10 | Ermentrude 's father had originally come from the Worms area , but he had made his career , thanks to imperial favour , in the west . |
| 11 | But he had made it complete with fossils and dinosaur skeletons buried under the earth ; red herrings put there to expose those of little faith . |
| 12 | Innocent had not controlled French aspirations but he had made it clear that he saw himself as the arbiter of Europe and John 's cession of his kingdom in 1213 considerably strengthened the pope 's hand . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She had told him that , but he had ignored her like he ignored everything else she ever said . |
| 16 | But he had pushed it into my hand and walked abruptly out of the door . |
| 17 | The Robemaker had not closed the door , but he had pushed it to a little . |
| 18 | Mrs McWilliams had said that at the Royal Samaritan Hospital she had told the anaesthetist about her fears because of what had happened before but he had reassured her . |
| 19 | But the Bainbridges always go into the Army , ’ but he had forgiven her , eventually , when she promised to try to take her leave when he took his . |
| 20 | He was devoted to the Prince , but he had served him for ten years and his wife had scarcely seen him . |
| 21 | Their Phyllanthus epiphyllanthus from the West Indies had been lost but he had seen one in the physic garden at Amsterdam where , with proper management , it was in great vigour . |
| 22 | But he had seen it at once , when Berdichev had first shown him the Aristotle File . |
| 23 | It had been worse than he had expected , but he had seen it through and without disgrace . |
| 24 | But he had given it all up and returned to the business world as a marketing executive . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He 'd made mistakes , but he had salvaged them . |
| 27 | None of the bargeowners could afford to waste electricity , and the display was really intended for much later at night , but he had turned it on early to surprise and please them . |
| 28 | She had wanted to stay with her brother , but he had called her a child , he had referred to Tallis as the woman whom he loved , and Morthen had taken both statements to her young heart . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But he had discovered something surprising . |