Example sentences of "but he [verb] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor Anna had been very indiscreet , the fascisti were going to arrest her or put pressure on her to leave the country for good , but he had been assured that if the principessa were to live again with him quietly in Rome nobody would touch her . |
| 2 | He had pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges which each carried maximum sentences of one year in prison and $100,000 in fines , but he had been treated leniently because he had co-operated with independent prosecutor Lawrence E. Walsh , whose Iran-contra investigation was in its final stages . |
| 3 | Haeckel 's holistic philosophy would inspire a later generation of environmentalists , but he had been trained as a morphologist and sought other ways of displaying the unity of Nature . |
| 4 | He took no notes — why would Winterbotham bother ? — but he had been trained to memorise map references and other details of a mission . |
| 5 | His success with the coffee machine was acknowledged , grudged but acknowledged , but he had been made aware that there was an argument for calling in the professionals when it came to tampering with the thermostat on the air system . |
| 6 | As a BCP politburo and secretariat member until mid-1988 , he had been widely regarded as the person most likely to lead political reform in Bulgaria , but he had been dismissed abruptly from the party leadership in July 1988 [ see p. 36304 ] . |
| 7 | But he had been reared to rule Orkney , and he would keep his place . |
| 8 | Lewis began his Narnia stories for children in 1949 , but he had been publishing fiction for adults since Out of the Silent Planet ( 1938 ) , a mixture of space-fiction and theology that he was soon to extend into a trilogy , ending with That Hideous Strength ( 1945 ) . |
| 9 | Item — On the night of March 18th , there was a fierce storm ; Alexander was not drunk but he had been drinking heavily . |
| 10 | Hindley Earnshaw should have been at Catherine 's burial yesterday , but he had been drinking so much that he could n't go . |
| 11 | But he had been drinking , and deep inside she knew he had been partly to blame . |
| 12 | Always he felt sick when he ate , but he had been taught and he had learned , and his eyes squinted shut and he swallowed . |
| 13 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 14 | He is retired now , but he had been sent all her possessions some time after the war from the house in avenue Hoche . |
| 15 | Indeed , the slope was no more than gentle for some way back along the line by which they had come ; but he had been preoccupied with the idea of danger in the open and had not noticed the change . |
| 16 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
| 17 | But he had been coming home drunk too often and now she was determined to let him know her feeling about it . |
| 18 | His family background was humble but he had been brought up on the writings of Beatrice and Sidney Webb and the philosophies of George Bernard Shaw . |
| 19 | When he was small , David Miller had been every bit as spirited and mischievous as any boy , but he had been bullied into believing otherwise . |
| 20 | Oliver looked from the Dodger to Charley Bates with great surprise and confusion , but he had been told not to ask questions . |
| 21 | He had looked older when she had seen him at St Petrock 's ; but he had been scowling then , and now he was looking quite friendly and interested — rather like James , who sat in front of them regarding them both with faithful brown eyes . |
| 22 | But he had been unafraid , although a tremor had gone through him as he entered the great Sun Chamber and found Dierdriu alone and waiting for him . |
| 23 | But he had been woken half an hour earlier . |
| 24 | Billy had certainly been making some enquiries but he had been misinformed , Danny thought . |
| 25 | But he had been bitten by the newspaper bug , and various groups of disaffected newspaper people , including disgruntled employees and ex-employees of The Times and the Sunday Times , approached him with a number of implausible journalistic ventures . |
| 26 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 27 | We 'd entered him in the Novice section , but he 'd been upgraded in the meantime . |
| 28 | Digging might not be classed as essential training , but he 'd been sent on attachment to learn all about real soldiering . |
| 29 | Their veteran spokesman thundered occasionally from the back benches , but he 'd been banished to the backwoods by popular opinion . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's all right , ’ said Preston , but he 'd been shaken , too . |