Example sentences of "[vb past] but [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The injured man fainted but when he came round he managed to dislodge his hand from the fence and made his way home with the blade still stuck in the wound . |
| 2 | O'Neill survived but as he goes on to record : ‘ The Catholic streets in Belfast became and remained a forest of Irish Republican flags for the duration of the celebrations . ’ |
| 3 | But he had a problem : the card she had so rapidly thrust into his hand was her business card , no home address , just Belmodes , Mouncy Street , which he knew but where he did not want to wait to visit . |
| 4 | Nick did n't send any shivers through her the way Jack Butler had but after he 'd kissed her softly goodbye and she was walking through Portman Square , she found herself looking forward to seeing him later . |
| 5 | Tesselmann 's fingers twitched but when he tried to speak it escaped from his lips as a gurgle . |