Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] but [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As it happens , ’ says John , ‘ I have more respect for men like Galbraith who are at least prepared to speak their minds , than for those who smiled in my presence but protested I was ‘ not a local man ’ . ’ |
| 2 | They did n't chase my assailants but helped me to my feet , solicitously enquiring after my health . |
| 3 | But to stay , to lie in his arms and each time know that he was dreaming of another woman , would not just break her heart but shatter it . |
| 4 | He hardly waited for their introductions but ushered them into the warm , sweet-smelling room , chattering and asking questions like a magpie . |
| 5 | ( I thought this very over-optimistic on her part but let her persist in the delusion . ) |
| 6 | He followed her eyes but found she was only staring at a door . |
| 7 | Sandison tried to catch a glimpse of her feet but found it difficult . |
| 8 | She was perfectly genuine in her feelings but expressing them by playing a role — I think maybe Bette Davis nobly renouncing a married lover . |
| 9 | Yes , in Vienna , a lady , I will not say her name but assure you that any conversation I had with poor little Mrs Crump was most decidedly not on this subject and not about this lady — she has clearly clutched at a reference and taken it for a confidence — in Vienna , this lady of , I may admit it , royal connection , formed an attachment for me which was not reciprocated but proved most difficult to disengage . |
| 10 | The group did not exercise its rights but sold them to a third party for £200,000 . |
| 11 | The Law Commission consider this approach , the ‘ safe harbour ’ approach , very briefly in their paper but dismiss it on grounds of ‘ unconstitutionality ’ . |
| 12 | They moved to cheaper hotels where they were not supposed to have food in their rooms but took it in turns to get breakfast and hide tiny stoves in the wardrobes while waving the cooking fumes out of the window . |
| 13 | I laughed again and tapped the screen above a formation of red and green flapping things , just as one of them , peeling off to the side of the main pack , dived down firing at Jamie 's craft , missing it with its shots but clipping him with one green wing as it disappeared off the bottom of the screen , so that Jamie 's craft detonated in a blaze of flashing red and yellow . |
| 14 | This position is complicated by the fact that society has no established customs surrounding either the step-parent role or , perhaps even more acutely , the role of the divorced parent no longer living with his or her children but visiting them from time to time . |
| 15 | She knew that her uncle 's death would radically change her position but did she , as she said , believe that the change would be for the worse ? |
| 16 | He could not make out its face but saw it was looking through the book he had just found with the complicated title . |
| 17 | The crowd gave him cover but gave it to Agnes too . |
| 18 | She tried to avoid his gaze but found it impossible . |
| 19 | They were so free in expression she wondered if they had been read at all by his parents but presumed they could hardly have escaped their eye . |
| 20 | I did not wait for his return but telephoned him later in the evening . |
| 21 | The heavy labour not only fought the flab around his waist but cured him of the insomnia he had suffered from for so many years . |
| 22 | He is near enough for his bulk to cut out the reflection of the sky and so his own reflection does not reproduce his colours but allows us to see into the water . |
| 23 | Mr Armstrong said : ‘ He made a statement to the police making no complaint against his wife but claiming he had fallen on a knife . ’ |
| 24 | This blighted his prospects but turned him into new paths . |
| 25 | Marcus thought about writing to his father but knew he did n't have anything to say to him . |
| 26 | He tugged at his knife but had it only half-drawn when the huge taloned paw of the bear smashed his head as if it was a rotten apple . |
| 27 | Wurlitzer originally wrote a quite different last chapter to his novel but threw it away because it seemed too analytical . |
| 28 | It swung open at his touch but closing it , as always , was more difficult and he lugged and half lifted it into place and slipped the circle of wire over the gatepost with a familiar sensation of having turned his back on the workaday world and entered country which , no matter how frequent his visits , would always be alien territory . |
| 29 | Mr. Graham does not take a fee for his talks but directs it to UNICEF . |
| 30 | She resented his tone but told him the real news , Pascoe 's resignation . |