Example sentences of "but what he [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His slippery feet could take him in and out of a West End emporium in two shakes of a fox 's tail , but what he collected on his way through was as much as six pairs of hands could manage . |
| 2 | But what he wrote on the Celts was mainly to be found in the history of the period circa 146–80 ) and in his books on Pompey 's wars . |
| 3 | Bultmann too was happy to describe theology as ‘ faith seeking understanding ’ ; but what he meant by this was faith 's self -understanding , an understanding having to do with self-awareness and self-knowledge , subjective rather than objective . |
| 4 | But what he said about the role technology would play in the war seems to have been as accurate as the laser-guided bombs shown on television . |
| 5 | But what he seemed to be sensing was that the boy was dangerous . |
| 6 | But what he understood by ‘ cantata ’ was the early form , strophic variations over a repeated bass , in two cases the ‘ Ruggiero ’ , in one the romanesca . |