Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mills Roberts was a stickler for discipline but everyone recognised him as a good soldier and therefore , for all his shouting , he was a popular figure . |
| 2 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 3 | I disagreed with much of what he had to say , but I welcome him to the House from this Bench and look forward to debating these issues with him on many occasions . |
| 4 | I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time . |
| 5 | But I told him about the telly that it 's a bit beyond redemption . |
| 6 | I went to punch him but I caught him with the crowbar instead . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ New-fangled ’ ideas , the farmer said , but I convinced him in the end . |
| 8 | He is certainly all that , but I see him as the new Jasper Johns — that great transformer of icons — with sex , shopping and the detritus of the suburbs in place of Johns 's targets , beer cans and flags . |
| 9 | ‘ Go on — it will cheer you up ’ but I dismissed him like the rest , saying I was not thirsty , despising the thought of drinking from the same grimy bottle which a rogue had . |
| 10 | Mr Multhrop bustled forward , but someone forestalled him with a glad cry . |
| 11 | This produced a flood of letters to Downing Street , which were kept from Baldwin during his long holiday , but which hit him with the force of a tidal wave on his return . |
| 12 | In. , Finally , the boy tried to squirm past her like a silverfish but she had him by the hair and was breaking the rifle over his head and shoulders when my father stopped her . |
| 13 | He caught them and tried to hold her still but she fought him like a spitting cat . |
| 14 | but she saw him on the way to work in town , had a bloody great barney with him on the market place on the way to work , just say , she was in there about ten minutes and burst into tears |
| 15 | He tried to kiss her , but she evaded him in a half-angry , half-flirtatious way , so they were in the middle of a clumsy clinch when Lucaroni walked in . |
| 16 | ’ Bramble began , but she silenced him with a glare from the astonishing blue eyes . |
| 17 | Many aspects of his analysis were similar to those advanced by Blauner , but they led him to an opposite conclusion . |
| 18 | The teenager tried to run away when the youths approached him but they punched him in the face and pushed him to the ground . |
| 19 | But they started him on a new course of treatment yesterday and he 's begun to respond . ’ |
| 20 | He tried to get away in his wheelchair , but they caught him in the hallway . |
| 21 | Nicol gave as good an account of himself as any of us , elder though he may be , and kept the key of the coffer safe , but they threw him off the cart , and coffer and all are gone , for it was there among the coppice wood . |
| 22 | Lord Harris admits Robertson has ‘ some weaknesses that , if not curbed , could totally cancel out his strengths ’ , but he defended him before the academic advisory council , on the grounds that he had not been sufficiently protected by guidelines , and that it would be difficult to find a replacement with his many gifts . |
| 23 | This he will normally be planning to do , but it involves him in a more considerable recasting of his planned activities than the university teacher , and brings him into contact with many more parts of the school life . |
| 24 | But it got him in the end . |
| 25 | For a moment Seb had forgotten his sprained ankle but it reminded him in no uncertain fashion when he tried to put his full weight on it . |