Example sentences of "but he [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not seen the kings but he told her of the baby who was born to be King in a nearby village called Bethlehem . |
| 2 | He was a short , precise man with a small moustache which reminded me a little of Hitler 's , but he had none of the German leader 's belligerence . |
| 3 | But he had none of the grandiloquence of Vasco Núñez ; he uttered none of the proud formulae Balboa had uttered in the Gulf of San Migud . |
| 4 | But he knew nothing of the Pacific 's tides . |
| 5 | But he knew nothing of the practical techniques of modelling and carving . |
| 6 | She tried to embrace him , but he seized her by the arms and shook her till her teeth chattered . |
| 7 | It came apart in his arms , but he bundled it onto the bed . |
| 8 | In The New York Times , Vincent Canby thought McQueen was ‘ as all-American as a Rover Boy ’ and Hoffman was ‘ not especially convincing ’ , but he enjoyed it as the sort of ‘ escapist movie we used to go see on Saturday night without even bothering to read the marquee ’ . |
| 9 | Mr Llambias ' services do not come cheap — they are a combination of a retainer ‘ sufficient to make them think really seriously ’ and a success fee that is a percentage of the fee income of the smaller firm ( sometimes 5% or 7.5% ) — but he prides himself on the longevity of the mergers he arranges . |
| 10 | I pulled him away and tried to get him upstairs in case he was traumatized for life , but he kicked me in the balls . |
| 11 | His Irish wife , Aylish O'Flaherty , ran off with their son , whom she feared would be raised as a heretic ; this was enough , by the statutes of the time , to have the marriage dissolved and the boy dispossessed ; but he distinguished himself in the Civil War , raising a troop of horse for the royalists , while the castle was occupied by Cromwellian troops . |
| 12 | Yeah , yeah was kind , it was kind of them , yes and we went all round the shops and er I thoroughly enjoyed it and in the new Co-Op as well you know , I thoroughly enjoyed it but he took me in the car so that we did n't have to hang about you see |
| 13 | She did not provide him with wine , to be sure , but he took it in the caffè he frequented , a caffè where politics were argued over far into the night and the arguers fell asleep at the table . |
| 14 | Mr Richardson said : ‘ His mother tried to bar him from using the telephone but he connected himself to the line by running a piece of wire under the carpet and soldering it to the telephone terminal . ’ |
| 15 | The January price rises [ see p. 38730-31 ] had been higher than expected and painful , but he described them as the logical conclusions of the policies of Soviet Prime Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov and Valentin Pavlov . |
| 16 | Maggie expected him to look annoyed but he did nothing of the sort . |
| 17 | She realised at once that he could be forgiven if he reminded her that she had n't been too sugary herself during that phone call : but he did nothing of the kind , though he did allow himself a small smirk before all trace of a smile went from him . |
| 18 | Her husband might want justice , but he wanted it through the proper channels . |
| 19 | But he ended it under the cloud of suspicion caused by a random test which confirmed he had taken drugs . |
| 20 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 21 | She would have run past him , but he caught her by the elbow . |
| 22 | v. Wilts U.D. , but he addresses himself to the question and uses his intelligence . |
| 23 | But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with . |
| 24 | Her father was a magician ; he knew something of the old magic , but he turned it against the little people to whom it belonged , and demanded their money , their livestock and even their children to appease the gods with rivers of blood . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He did not always understand my French , but he showed me round the school , and talked a lot , very fast . |
| 27 | Mr Mellor was a great individualist , always putting on a good performance for the cameras , but he put himself before the Cabinet team . |
| 28 | Oh yes , but he wants them for the whole of the year you see , which is impossible . |
| 29 | When he 'd finished at the sink I came out and wound myself lovingly around his legs but he shut me in the kitchen . |
| 30 | Assistant manager Mick Tait said : ‘ He was pencilled in to play , but he withdrew himself before the game . ’ |