Example sentences of "but he [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E did n't say , but 'e wo n't want you nosin' around 'is room-'ere , come back 'ere . ’ |
| 2 | If he could help himself this would be mental vandalism ; but he ca n't ; Stavrogin 's are yawns that refuse to be stifled ; automatism and involuntarism are finally one , and the tragic villain-hero who at once apprehends the ‘ sensible idea ’ and yawns at it betrays a high but helpless intelligence recalling Raskolnikov as well as Svidrigailov . |
| 3 | He says he wants to go back to his country , but he ca n't . |
| 4 | Okay , so his grant will be pegged at its 1990 level ; but he ca n't see himself borrowing from the loan scheme introduced by the Government through the major banks . |
| 5 | He is conscious of Marjorie 's watery blue eyes scanning him speculatively over the rim of her teacup , inviting further discussion of Sandra , but he ca n't face it , not this morning , not with a day 's work ahead of him . |
| 6 | Metaphysics would have been one way out , but he ca n't take that , so the alternative is to be a persecuted prophet . |
| 7 | ‘ But he ca n't find him here , ’ said Tim , ‘ especially the state he 's in . ’ |
| 8 | But he ca n't repress a shudder as he recalls the day he learned of his wife 's death , at first being told that she had drowned . |
| 9 | But he ca n't resist going on a teensy-weensy shopping spree with Marlon , which involves going into a jewellers , pretending to be gay and , to divert inquiries , sneezing copiously over an assistant who is terrified they are transmitting Aids . |
| 10 | Sugar needs 75% of shares voted , plus a simple majority among shareholders voting , but he ca n't vote his own sizeable holding . |
| 11 | GEORGE GRAHAM says he loves facts , but he ca n't take any satisfaction from the ones his Arsenal team have been producing lately . |
| 12 | He can start things but he ca n't finish them . |
| 13 | If there is trouble it seems Jones is inevitably in the middle of it , but he ca n't afford to mix it any more with a six-month suspended ban hanging over him . |
| 14 | But he ca n't get a job — because he 's blind and deaf . |
| 15 | But he ca n't stop at that . |
| 16 | He 's infiltrated the group and is buying regular small doses but he ca n't start asking questions too soon . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm innocent , believe me , Craig has fooled you but he ca n't fool me , he wanted it all , the property and land , the business and every penny of the money . |
| 18 | ‘ He will , but he ca n't . ’ |
| 19 | But he ca n't . |
| 20 | He goes to the meetings but he ca n't stay behind afterwards for the real meeting — in the pub . |
| 21 | Yes , I 'd thought about him , but he ca n't wed her , can he ? |
| 22 | Instead of seeing the person depicted on the duckpond surface of the polaroids , he sees an amalgam : this one 's slightly dark upper lip , this one 's nervy legs , this one 's role in Le Médecin malgré lui at the Comédie Française ( where he has recently sat through an excruciating evening of seventeenth-century high camp ) , this one 's intensely white and brown eyes , this one 's professed love of Shakespeare , this one 's part in an erotic thriller ( he can remember her buttocks from that movie , but he ca n't fix them to the right actress without his notes ) . |
| 23 | He 's clever , and handsome , but he ca n't be trusted . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , but he ca n't speak , can he ? |
| 25 | He wants to kill his uncle , but he ca n't . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought Buff could learn to accept the animals like me , but he ca n't . |
| 27 | GUIL : ( Rattled ) But he ca n't — We 're supposed to be — We 've got a letter — We 're going to England with a letter for the King |
| 28 | I can go Bill can go but he ca n't . |
| 29 | But he ca n't get her out of his mind . |
| 30 | But he ca n't care about the individuals . |