Example sentences of "but he [vb -s] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , he says , an old Lappish church near its eastern edge ; he has never seen it but he has been told of it by an old Lapp who lives near the lakes western edge . |
| 2 | But he has been very loving this summer and much cast down by the failure of the Italian cause and I will not grudge him a livelier time of it in Rome . |
| 3 | But he has been wrong on so many political issues . ’ |
| 4 | But he has been blinded . |
| 5 | Why these particular prints stand out in my opinion from so many produced for the tourists of the time , is because the artist has not just reproduced his drawings on to plates but he has been able to produce marks that are alive and work within the context of the print . |
| 6 | Tristan Garel-Jones is not a household name but he has been a key player in British , and particularly Tory , politics over the past two years . |
| 7 | Butcher thought his career was over when he left Coventry last season , but he has been outstanding since joining the Wearsiders . |
| 8 | The £700,000 striker missed the last two games with a badly bruised shoulder , but he has been back in training for the last couple of days and will have a late fitness check tonight . |
| 9 | The Dark Ones are demanding , but he has been bearing up remarkably . |
| 10 | The whizzkid winger missed all the build-up games while he recovered from a summer knee operation , but he has been included in a 15-man squad . |
| 11 | But he has been right in saying that urgent measures have been put off for too long . |
| 12 | True , Romany King has not been at his most convincing so far this season , but he has been trained with the National very much in mind . |
| 13 | But he has been influenced by Old Masters . |
| 14 | The fact that the organisers decided that it was time to show Spanish Pop and the French New Realists made sense ; Martial Raysse has always seemed to me a very interesting artist , but he has been ignored outside France . |
| 15 | The new Hermitage director has worked there for nearly two years as assistant academic director under acting-director Vitaliy Suslov , but he has been connected with the museum almost all his life ; his father , Academician Boris Piotrovskiy ( 1908–90 ) , was on the staff at the Hermitage for more than half a century , and was its director for twenty-six years before his death en poste . |
| 16 | Unfortunately John Scott Morgan had to postpone his planned October talk ( but he has been booked for next May , see below ) . |
| 17 | But he has been a revelation . |
| 18 | Do nt know about Strandli , but he has been on loan to Start ( Norway 1st Div side — where leeds bought him from ) . |
| 19 | But he has been under intense pressure recently . |
| 20 | But he has been learning the ropes since February with Liverpool Playhouse workshop . |
| 21 | The distinctive orange , yellow and black bike was a Christmas present for the youngster , but he has been so weak because of chemotherapy treatment that he has been able unable to ride it . |
| 22 | But he has been given the all-clear after an operation last week to remove a second disc from his neck . |
| 23 | But he has been the Labour Party 's chosen candidate for almost two years and in that time he has worked hard to build up a high profile , assiduously interpreting official figures on unemployment , training and hospital waiting lists as well as taking on directors of newly-privatised monopolies . |
| 24 | But he has been refused because firms think he is too young . |
| 25 | But he has been trying to unload the firm since last year to help his debt-laden holding company , BTF , and clear the way for him to pursue his political career . |
| 26 | Sid was very cooperative there he did n't realize but he has been he 's spoken very well , we 've talked about all these jobs he 's done and all the travelling he 's done with the |
| 27 | But he has been found guilty of committing serious sexual offences , and given a conditional discharge . |
| 28 | But he 's been a lot better , especially since we got Caspar . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , but he 's been transferred , ’ said the nurse . |
| 30 | There is a wealth of revealing evidence on the attitudes that affect reading : ‘ His daddy always takes him to bed , and he says ‘ Can I have a story ? ’ said an engineer 's wife , ‘ but he 's been told now that he 's getting a bit too old for stories ’ ’ [ ‘ He ’ is four ] ( Newson and Newson , 1968 , p.274 ) ; ‘ Then I read her a story , ’ said an actor 's wife , ‘ and Rupert listens , and then I show Rupert his little book ’ ’ [ Rupert being sixteen months old ] ( ibid . |