Example sentences of "but [verb] he [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It came to the stage when I was married to Michael but seeing him once a week , ’ said Gabrielle . |
| 2 | The Church should not be helping him up , but helping him over : false optimism does not need a helping hand ; it needs firstly the truth , and secondly love to salve the lost illusions and move on to a fuller humanity ( Walker 1986 : 214 ) . |
| 3 | When speaking to Marco in the prison for instance , he tells him he is bound to be deported , and that there is no hope for him ; Alfieri would realise it was hard for Marco to take , but respected him enough to tell him the absolute truth . |
| 4 | By not only relieving David Gower of the captaincy , which was inevitable , but omitting him altogether the selectors provoked an uproar ; they came up with a party that had only two specialist openers , an inexperienced middle order , and some fast bowlers who were virtually untried , injury-prone and had a reputation for speed but not accuracy . |
| 5 | She did not greet him , but drew him quickly inside into another wide marble-floored hall , so similar in form to the previous one , with its glittering crystal lights and its wide forked staircase , that for a moment he felt only confusion , a sense of time warped , speeding him at once back and forwards . |
| 6 | Audiences can not help but cheer him on . |
| 7 | But has he any right to tell the theist this ? |
| 8 | He keeps his liquor just on the other side of the room , but catch him actually dishing it out himself . |
| 9 | One might be forgiven for saying that the purpose of all this power , conventional and nuclear , is deterrence : Soviet might is not to be used to strike the enemy but hold him back . |
| 10 | Middlesex dropped Ramprakash for the next championship match against Hampshire at Southampton but recalled him yesterday for their game against Sussex at Hove . |
| 11 | Last November he was banned from driving for four years , but says he probably wo n't ever drive again . |
| 12 | The Prime Minister has postponed a Commons debate on the Maastricht treaty , but says he still plans to forge ahead with a bill to ratify it . |
| 13 | Tonight he 's smartly dressed in shirt and tie , baggy trousers and leather jacket , but says he often wears the kilt . |
| 14 | This was in striking contrast to the sceptical line of the Foreign Office , but cost him relatively little . |
| 15 | But she has grown up strangely , and she treats him with a cold formality , calling him ‘ Sir ’ but correcting him almost every time he speaks . |
| 16 | Bob Geldof would shine as scruffy Larry but cleaning him up for the post wedding scenes could be hard . |
| 17 | Appropriate feedback is vital in the patient 's relearning process , so he receives praise only when it is deserved : if he fails in any way , the physiotherapist remains encouraging and positive about it , but shows him how and why he went wrong , or she may simply leave that task for the moment and return to it later , when the patient can concentrate and get it right . |
| 18 | " Well now , there 's no need to come back any more but watch him carefully and if you see anything unusual bring him in . " |
| 19 | She did n't struggle but faced him angrily . |
| 20 | The teacher 's job is not to correct mistakes the pupil has already made , but to help him not to make that mistake next time . |
| 21 | The teacher 's job is not to correct mistakes the pupil has already made , but to help him not to make that mistake next time . |
| 22 | I have very unpleasant recollections of sitting for him , for it was of utmost importance not to move but to fix him right in the eye and listen to him complain , saying as he always did that he was getting nowhere . |
| 23 | They reached the great river at Old Melrose , at the foot of Lauderdale , and followed it down to Kelso , where they had made contact with Sir Simon Fraser , who was not exactly besieging Balliol in Roxburgh Castle but containing him there , with the Warden 's force , to prevent him joining Edward Plantagenet at Berwick . |
| 24 | Do n't fall for this but draw him out instead by providing openings . |
| 25 | ‘ Quarrelling with Philip is one thing , but disinheriting him completely … ’ |
| 26 | Overbalancing , she clutched at Finn to save herself but pulled him over with her . |
| 27 | Suppose , on the other hand , that he is guided by law as integrity , which does not limit law to what convention finds in past decisions but directs him also to regard as law what morality would suggest to be the best justification of these past decisions . |
| 28 | Hallin always recognised his role would be specific , but felt he still had one to play . |
| 29 | The man on the train , the teacher who had been in Lancashire for three years , but felt he never really knew it until Walter Machin revealed it to him . |
| 30 | He could remember the distant past and his family and friends , but ask him where he 'd just been , what he 'd had for lunch and which room he 'd just come out of , and he was stumped . |