Example sentences of "[noun] but he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have liked to reduce speed but he was worried about what might be coming up behind him . |
| 2 | James Kilpatrick had lost his share in the horse but he was well satisfied as he had been truly vindicated . |
| 3 | He shared his pupils ' impatience with the history side but he was far too polite ever to express this prejudice in my presence — and he was pleased that there was somebody else in the department who was prepared to cover that part of the teaching . |
| 4 | And this is important because a man might look very well from one side but he might look like a cheese from another , and that would be a distraction . |
| 5 | ‘ It might take a few games for Martin to settle into the side but he is a good team man and strong defensively . |
| 6 | Jean-Claude may have had artistic integrity on his side but he did not have a legal leg to stand on . |
| 7 | Henry 's mother hardly left his side but he improved and at 8pm on 31 March she went to have something to eat , leaving her son playing in the doorway of his room . |
| 8 | squares the ball to his left and Alan the left back just pushes it out wide to that far side but he loses out , competing successfully , he 's got going forward if he can find him , and gets it and lays it off to and can now run at Mickey once more . |
| 9 | He had seen her fall with his own eyes but he doubted any other witness would have disagreed with the description . |
| 10 | She opened her eyes but he kept his arm tightly round her , his lips pressed on hers , so she could not move . |
| 11 | He says it could fill a warehouse but he 's not going to . |
| 12 | In later days it became fashionable to see Chaplin as a political rebel against Hollywood 's factory methods but he is better seen as the last of the old-style showmen offering a highly polished product to the masses that he felt he knew so intimately . |
| 13 | work Sunday and Tuesday but he does n't have |
| 14 | Yeah erm yeah he come in Thursday , he 'd got an headache and er Tuesday but he 'd got an headache , a sore throat and I do n't feel well and I do n't want to go to college , you know , and all this rubbish . |
| 15 | it 's Thursday and she was supposed to phone you Tuesday but he still keeps |
| 16 | I was cleaning out the room there the other day and he must be training , he must be weightlifting or something up in the bedroom but he 's a health health book , a big thick health book and there 's bodies , you know , the human body |
| 17 | She took a couple of tentative steps but he reached out and swiftly held her by the shoulders . |
| 18 | Shop manager Mohammed Afzal is angry that newsagents can sell groceries but he can do the same with papers . |
| 19 | On Bemal 's return he was under great pressure to make his own appreciation but he merely said ‘ Danckwerts has said it all . |
| 20 | Silas 's eyes reflected something more than mere appreciation but he said nothing as he pulled out the chair for her to sit down . |
| 21 | Maybe he had proved to himself that he had recovered his nerve but he had had to hold on very tight at that moment when she had broken . |
| 22 | At one point there was real concern about his future but he is now back and playing better than when he was first picked by England . ’ |
| 23 | I tried to have a word with the Cashier but he was n't talking . |
| 24 | He did n't mention it to Meredith but he was more worried about the anonymous letter in fact . |
| 25 | Mr Gould did not intend to indulge in recriminations over Thursday 's defeat but he felt Mr Smith 's tax policy and its impact on middle income earners in the South ‘ perhaps showed less than total sensitivity to their interests . |
| 26 | ‘ He did n't score many goals but he was brilliant at laying on the ball for others . |
| 27 | Ince , like Palmer , ca n't finish and will never score goals but he does n't need to with Paul Gascoigne and David Platt , Alan Shearer and Ian Wright … so different to Old Trafford where there is terrible pressure on everyone , anyone , to get a goal . |
| 28 | He pays for the additional units but he values them at only . |
| 29 | I showed him the photograph but he declared that the cottage had stood close to the road , nowhere near my site . |
| 30 | Jay was no mean performer ( in Peter 's words ) on the tenor sax but he was nervous and edgy about doing something which he said was against the law . |