Example sentences of "but he [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mark used to work in the newspaper industry , but he got kicked out when they brought in all the new technology you hear about . |
| 2 | I used to have one but he got fed up of me using it so he cut plug off |
| 3 | But he got married my sister and lived in house down there and er that 's how I got a job there . |
| 4 | He came to save the world in nineteen eighteen , but he got crucified by Clements or Lloyd George . |
| 5 | I 'd thought he might suddenly take off and run , but he seemed glued to the bench . |
| 6 | But he seemed disposed on this occasion to discuss St Stephen 's , because its problems had lately been much on his mind . |
| 7 | But he felt bowled over , and could hardly believe it was n't obvious to every single person in the room . |
| 8 | The Brownies did n't know it , but he had asked Brown Owl to marry him . |
| 9 | But he had crossed the road — actually crossed the road — to tell her he thought it was the most interesting interview he had ever heard on the Parker Show . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Newcomen died in 1729 , when his engines were coming into increasing use all over Europe as well as in Britain , and soon in America too , but he had gained little financial advantage from his invention . |
| 12 | I closed the gap , but he had gained at the start and that is what gave him the advantage at the finish . |
| 13 | Ali Marwash was not a rich man , but he had loved his daughter and had wrapped her in a Kashmir shawl before interring her . |
| 14 | But he had despised her husband from the beginning . |
| 15 | ‘ That job was the adventure , ’ she remembered , but he had deprived her of so much more than just adventure . |
| 16 | Schmidt , born in 1918 , had been a Hitler Youth member and a lieutenant in the wartime army , but he had joined the SPD soon after the war and entered the Bundestag as early as 1953 . |
| 17 | He may have constructed his Cabinet a little amiss , but he had constructed his power-base superbly . |
| 18 | It could have been the second , but he had swallowed his pride when they had shown him the room that was allocated him . |
| 19 | But he had grasped , being so quick , the bones of it . |
| 20 | But he had saved one further little irritation for the end . |
| 21 | But he had cut do you see , all on the inside , and left along the roadside . |
| 22 | However , his candidature in 1911 had been aided by three factors : he was a Conservative rather than a Liberal Unionist , but he was the sort of Conservative who would be acceptable to Liberal Unionists as well ; he was a diehard in opinion , but he had remained loyal to Balfour 's policy throughout the recent twists and turns ; and he had staked a claim by his abandonment of his safe London seat to fight North-West Manchester in December 1910 ( at no real risk , for an alternative safe seat was always available to him if and when he lost ) . |
| 23 | Of course , he had n't come up with answers , but he had indicated where , in what directions , further work might pay the necessary dividend . |
| 24 | But he had indicated , on his appointment as vice-president last spring , that he would not take the traditional route to the presidency as he would be retiring from OUP during 1993 . |
| 25 | But he had swung round at the sound of a vehicle approaching . |
| 26 | But he had stopped trusting his thoughts . |
| 27 | But he had stopped short of throwing them out , because then he would only be punishing himself . |
| 28 | I waited , but he had stopped as if he thought he had said it all . |
| 29 | She looked at him and felt his pain , but he had shut her out again . |
| 30 | 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 . |