Example sentences of "but he [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But 'e made a bit o' Welsh rarebit after some coaxing. 'E 's not as incapable as 'e looks , I 've come to 't conclusion . " |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't know what you said to 'im last evenin' , but 'e 'ad a bloke call later and done a bit of a business deal with 'im that earned a fiver , would yer believe . |
| 3 | But he released a decree placing the media under his protection and ordering the ministry of the interior to take ‘ necessary measures ’ to defend the state-run television , radio and information agencies . |
| 4 | He failed in three attempts to secure election to the Trades Union Congress 's parliamentary committee , but he represented the vellum binders at the foundation conference of the labour representation committee in February 1900 , and was elected to its executive . |
| 5 | ‘ But he talks a lot of tripe about football , and his team 's a disgrace . ’ |
| 6 | But he led the field a merry dance until being overhauled inside the final furlong . |
| 7 | He did not make it obvious , but he led the conversation , changed topics when he thought it needed it , enquired robustly of the lawyer certain things , and more gently of the females , as if to bring out gems of information they had stored in their pretty little heads . |
| 8 | But he formed the opinion , which he never afterwards lost , that the Church must gain its proper freedom from the State in the care for its own way of worship , if necessary by disestablishment , from which he never thereafter shrank . |
| 9 | Hobbs could have put Bradford 9-8 ahead with his easiest kick of the afternoon , but he struck a post and six minutes later Maskill scored the try which started that late rush of Leeds points . |
| 10 | But he emphasised the need for good education . |
| 11 | For Shakhnazarov , socialism would continue as long as mankind pursued a better world ; but he rejected the idea of ‘ stages ’ of human history and the primacy of economic factors and saw communism itself as a ‘ hypothesis ’ or even a ‘ dream ’ . |
| 12 | They agreed to pay him thirty three thousand pounds but he rejected the offer . |
| 13 | He believed that the study of nature was conducive to this , but he rejected the connection of this ideal with atheism . |
| 14 | But he dropped a key ring containing a picture of himself and his girlfriend as he crept upstairs to steal the woman 's jewellery . |
| 15 | In Laker 's case the minister was seeking to require the Civil Aviation Authority to follow his policy but he chose a way of doing this which the Court of Appeal considered not to be within his powers . |
| 16 | The Minister said that the peak age for offending has risen to 18 from 15 , but he chose the end of the two-year period that I would describe as covering the most vulnerable young people on whom the Government have picked in the past 12 years . |
| 17 | but he got a phone call on the Tuesday from Mr 's secretary to say oh Mr would like to see you anyway because er he feels it may have erm it was a letter , I 'm sorry , which came |
| 18 | And on the Dixon fight , the British , European and Commonwealth champion said : ‘ I gave him a taste but he got a bit feisty by trying to hit me back and I took him out . |
| 19 | But he got a bit carried away … |
| 20 | But he got a pattern made and had the base of the machine made at a local foundry and he made all the leverage parts and got the , he got the blades made in Sheffield or somewhere and er he made one for himself . |
| 21 | And Jim er Bill grabbed the camera that was on the mantlepiece and he got a shot , not of me , but he got a shot of Pat and her friend and Bryan and er , it was er , er , something I 'll never forget . |
| 22 | Alex may have had some response ready , but he got no chance to voice it , as Bobby Anscombe turned his fury on Paul Lexington . |
| 23 | But he got the ball near the left edge of the green , flicked it confidently over the bunker to about four feet and holed out with ease . |
| 24 | When he introduced me to her , just before the wedding , he sort of … well , he did n't come out and say it , but he got the message over that he did n't want her to know I was gay . |
| 25 | He was trying to explain , but he got the impression he was losing out now . |
| 26 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes — that was unexpected — but he got the reaction he wanted , I think — the screams of adoration from his fans . ’ |
| 28 | I mean , they should n't want more than seven per cent because the cost of living , you know , the inflation 's gone down , but then when a bloke gets forty five thousand quid , you know eh , on a firm where they 've a , they 've made a profit , but he got an increase of forty five thousand pound which was of , no , no about forty per cent rather , forty per cent increase in his salary , I mean it 's bloody , I mean , how can , how can they expect , you know , the ordinary working man to put up with bloody awful increase , if , if they go and give bosses increases like that , I mean it does n't make sense . |
| 29 | Yeah I know but he admitted a lot of punishments . |
| 30 | In an interview with the New York Times , McDevitt ( who had three more larceny convictions in the 1980s ) denied even knowing about the Gardner theft , but he revealed a familiarity with techniques of cutting paintings from frames . |