Example sentences of "but he [verb] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had just slid his key into the lock , simply strolled in and shattered their precious time . |
| 2 | In 1921 , Siqueiros had urged artists to ‘ avoid those lamentable archaeological reconstructions ’ ( ‘ Indianism ’ , ‘ Primitivism ’ , ‘ Americanism' ) but he had also warned against the use of ‘ archaic motifs ’ from the old masters of European art ‘ which for us would be exotic ’ ; instead his advice was to study the arts of both , learning from the ‘ constructive base ’ , the ‘ great sincerity ’ , of the latter , and the ‘ synthetic energy ’ of the former , to combine the ‘ lost values ’ of the past with new values to produce an art appropriate to modern America . |
| 3 | Not only did he own Werner Lines , a worldwide shipping empire with more than vessels in commission , but he had also branched out into the freight industry over the past four years and succeeded in cornering an important section of its competitive market by buying out a succession of small , struggling companies and amalgamating them under an experienced board of directors answerable only to him . |
| 4 | ‘ Bet Rachel 's ‘ avin ’ a good laugh , ’ he muttered wryly to himself for not only had he volunteered for fire-watching duties , but he had also volunteered the services of Dobbs and the cart since there was news of petrol rationing . |
| 5 | But he had also given her time to think what she was doing . |
| 6 | Not only had Bohr explained Balmer 's mysterious formula ( and other later formulae for lines corresponding to ending up in orbits with unc but he had also enabled the value of the Rydberg constant A to be calculated in terms of the known quantities m , e , c and h . |
| 7 | Not only had Ryan ruined her love and her trust , but he had also made her a coward . |
| 8 | But he had also hinted at a sexual relationship with one of his American university professors , and with the editor of a certain American music magazine , with whom he had spent a vacation in Hairi . |
| 9 | Not only had he transformed the political situation among the western Saxons but he had also established himself as the most powerful ruler in southern England . |
| 10 | He had felt an affinity with the brothers because they were a couple of hard nuts , but he had also found they had definite criminal tendencies . |
| 11 | Rose 's grandfather had made a stupid suggestion but he had also thrown some light on the history of the cottage . |
| 12 | By legislating for the emancipation of the serfs Alexander II had achieved more than either of his immediate forebears , but he had also upset peasants , nobles and intellectuals . |
| 13 | But he had also read the life of Bishop Charles Gore and found it inspiring , so it was not always sickening to work as a bishop . |
| 14 | Not only had the Archbishop left in haste but he had also taken the Bishop of Rochester 's horses . |
| 15 | In April 1861 even the head of the Third Department thought that the regime would be forced to grant a constitution , but he added that " not only would the emperor not make up his mind to assent to the gradual introduction of constitutional forms , but he had even spoken out firmly against it very recently and had evidently not changed his mind on the question " . |
| 16 | But he had since matured into an above average soldier and technician , talented , willing and desperate not to leave the army . |
| 17 | For years and years , her frailer beauty had made him feel physically famished for her , but he had generally subdued the longing because she seemed worn out with housework . |
| 18 | Given that , in 1837 , Buxton initially opposed an immediate move against apprenticeship it is doubtful how much deference would have been shown his leadership by the convention , but he had anyway lost his seat at the recent election . |
| 19 | That night , when he awoke in the full certainty that someone else was in the room , he reached for it , where it usually lay by his headrest ; but he had barely moved before he felt its point at his throat . |
| 20 | But he had barely attended a professional orchestral concert before he went to university . |
| 21 | De Klerk did not specify the length of the executive council 's term in office , but he had previously indicated his desire for the interim leadership body to remain in power for several years [ see p. 38798 ] . |
| 22 | But he had skilfully pacified even the most vociferous of dissenters . |
| 23 | She had no desire whatever to stay and become enmeshed in the affairs of Alain Lemarchand and his mother , but he had simply gathered her in imperiously as if he were in charge of her life . |
| 24 | But he had simply nodded , ‘ Good , ’ and left it at that . |
| 25 | True , the first and perhaps the second blackmail payments had come in before he was obliged to pay for his teeth at the beginning of June , but he had blithely paid two hundred and fifty for them in cash when the demand came . |
| 26 | But he had finally done so and had seen other eagles , each in his own cage , all mature , all seeming big and threatening . |
| 27 | That stubbornness had got him through the last four years , but he had finally had to admit that walking out on his wife had been the biggest mistake of his life . |
| 28 | His mother had thought he was dead but he had later recovered . |
| 29 | She was going to offer him an armchair to sit in but he had already decided to settle at the pinewood table . |
| 30 | His luck was in , at least for the moment , but he had already decided not to tempt fate again . |