Example sentences of "but he [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ E asked me to describe yer , which I did , thinkin' maybe 'e was goin' to tell yer you 'd come into some money , but 'e said you 'd taken in a young woman , that the pair of you 'ad nicked 'is wallet an' made off with it . |
| 2 | His mouth tightened but he released her wrist , eyes glittering , and she ran up the stairs , into her bedroom , slammed the door , locked it , then knew with a terrible deep certainty that she had run from her own desire . |
| 3 | But he released her and said , ‘ Not very responsive . |
| 4 | His face was pinched with cold and he looked rather dejected , but he greeted them heartily . |
| 5 | But he greeted me by swearing at me , so I went into the hall to find somebody else . |
| 6 | So the attendant says to her , have you got a wrist watch and she had n't got her wrist watch on , but he spotted her wedding ring and he said , I 'll take that and she said , she had to hand her wedding er ring over and she vowed when she put that on that she would never |
| 7 | But he continued his work on the fountain pen and , in 1952 , introduced the Snorkel range , which was filled by means of a thin retractable tube under the nib . |
| 8 | Wickenden , as purchasing director , is naturally reticent about details , but he led me to believe that smuggling nuts out of Turkey was an important activity , and that everyone except presumably the government , was satisfied with this arrangement . |
| 9 | I was certain he did n't know I was following him , but he led me a pretty dance almost as if he was trying to lose me . |
| 10 | But he respected her modesty and did nothing more . |
| 11 | When Wilfrid returned from his final visit to Rome Aethelred had abdicated but he summoned his nephew and appointed successor , Coenred , to meet Wilfrid and is said to have urged him to uphold Wilfrid 's cause ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 57 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | One eveing I dared to stretch out my hand to his plate , but he struck me a sharp blow over the back of my fingers . |
| 14 | But he woke me up this morning to wish me a happy anniversary . |
| 15 | But he rejected her : too ugly . |
| 16 | Other factors included the fact that the liberal-nationalist unification movement looked to Prussia as the natural leader of Germany : the Frankfurt Assembly offered the King of Prussia the imperial crown in 1849 but he rejected it , disliking their excessive parliamentary vision for the new Germany . |
| 17 | Preston half understood this because it was in him , too , but he rejected it , also , because it scared him too much . |
| 18 | But he rejected it almost as soon as it crossed his mind . |
| 19 | Hurst 's voice had risen a little , but he dropped it again as he realized that several pairs of eyes were watching them with interest . |
| 20 | has n't been , he 's been even more desperate than to get a goal , but he got one on twenty one . |
| 21 | Cor but he got him so riled and you know . |
| 22 | At times it drove his audience to anger and boredom , but he got what he wanted . |
| 23 | Erlich did n't understand much Greek but he got her drift . |
| 24 | She went to sleep , she was so heavy that he thought he could barely carry her another step but he got her home and set her down in the warmth of the kitchen . |
| 25 | But he got me started ; the curiosity . ’ |
| 26 | Erm but he got he got sidetracked by this guy , and they were talking and he he mentioned a photograph , and he got in like you know . |
| 27 | But he got his by being murdered . ’ |
| 28 | It got quite windy in the morning but he got his head down and played to par , not speaking hardly a word , even to me . |
| 29 | Anna Patricia O'Neil was born at a quarter after two the next morning , so Denis did n't get his Patrick after all , nor even his Denis , but he got his much-loved and hard-worked Hana back and for that he was grateful . |
| 30 | The language may sound archaic , ’ he commented , ‘ but he got his facts right . |