Example sentences of "but he [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he greeted me by swearing at me , so I went into the hall to find somebody else . |
| 2 | It is some five years since I worked with Mr Edell in his previous incarnation as a lawyer , but he struck me as a man who would do the necessary . |
| 3 | Adorno , we have seen , acknowledges this specificity — indeed , for him it explains the ( unfulfilled ) potential of jazz and the hangovers of ‘ real ’ creativity in some Tin Pan Alley songs ; but he subsumes it into a theory of ‘ false individualization ’ , designed , in his view , to disguise mass cultural production as ‘ art ’ . |
| 4 | has n't been , he 's been even more desperate than to get a goal , but he got one on twenty one . |
| 5 | But he got his by being murdered . ’ |
| 6 | I hoped that university would bring him out of his shell , but he kept himself to himself . ’ |
| 7 | But he asked them to ‘ see it from a different viewpoint . |
| 8 | He had not seen the kings but he told her of the baby who was born to be King in a nearby village called Bethlehem . |
| 9 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 10 | But he told me of a new home just completed , where Aunt Louise had been offered a place . |
| 11 | But he told them in a straightforward way . |
| 12 | Voices were raised outside as he progressed through the crowd , but he told everyone to ‘ move on ’ and ‘ go home ’ , instructions which , of course , were ignored . |
| 13 | But he said nothing for 24 hours and later , in a panic , sent police in the opposite direction . |
| 14 | But he said nothing at all . |
| 15 | Marguerite 's rush of words almost drowned out Alain 's harsh intake of breath , but he said nothing at all as Marguerite went on , ‘ Now I know why you could not stay longer . |
| 16 | She looked up into the haughty face but he said nothing at all . |
| 17 | But he said nothing of this , merely noted down her address , sighed a little at it , and made his latest recruit promise to visit him once a week with her piece . |
| 18 | Like his wife , he had heard her voice change when she had spoken Dr Neil 's name , but he said nothing of that . |
| 19 | More " concrete " , yes ; but he said nothing about " more specific , more precise " . |
| 20 | Back at the house , she waited , tense , to see whether he would take his things up to another room , but he said nothing about it , only slid into his bag with a sigh that assuaged her ; it was the sigh of a child finding a safe place . |
| 21 | But he said it without hope . |
| 22 | I think it was the old Gladding Masters match , he did n't win it ( Pete Palmer did ) , but he had plenty of big names behind him ( I think the editor might have been one of them ) and showed why he must have been greatly feared in his prime . |
| 23 | But he had plenty of admirers — and , after all , Shelley Cameron was only one fan . |
| 24 | But he had her between a rock and a hard place , and the look in his eyes told her only too clearly that he knew it . |
| 25 | But he had her in his arms now , moulding her firmly to the length of his hard , muscular body . |
| 26 | No I thought , cos I , I remember reading erm I think it 's her father who owns one of the bookshops in Woodbridge and he had this book on display , you know he sort of erm advertised it if you like and it 's , it 's properly published and everything but he had it as a a book available in his store and there was an advert in the Anglian about it , and I remember reading that she said er that he said er cos it was his daughter who had the child , that it totally knocked them for six . |
| 27 | He was a short , precise man with a small moustache which reminded me a little of Hitler 's , but he had none of the German leader 's belligerence . |
| 28 | But he had none of the grandiloquence of Vasco Núñez ; he uttered none of the proud formulae Balboa had uttered in the Gulf of San Migud . |
| 29 | He had , of course , known those grandparents whose glamour made Alexandra 's existence so difficult , but he saw them in a light so different from his wife 's that they seemed hardly the same people . |
| 30 | A furlong separated them but he knew her at once . |