Example sentences of "but he [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mark used to work in the newspaper industry , but he got kicked out when they brought in all the new technology you hear about . |
| 2 | I used to have one but he got fed up of me using it so he cut plug off |
| 3 | But he felt bowled over , and could hardly believe it was n't obvious to every single person in the room . |
| 4 | But he had swung round at the sound of a vehicle approaching . |
| 5 | He had n't got a job yet but he had gone up to London every day this week and come home in a jolly mood . |
| 6 | But he had gone out of the front door , banging it , leaving his shoes on the table which she 'd always believed was bad luck . |
| 7 | For one moment Isambard was caught off-guard , but he had lived in and trained and trusted that hard old body of his for sixty years , and in emergencies his very muscles thought for him . |
| 8 | But he had called on |
| 9 | But he had ridden up on a valiant steed with all the trappings of chivalrous knighthood . |
| 10 | He had been shocked by the resentment he had aroused — especially from a group of poets who themselves had only lately moved into the Vale : but he had dug in and dug on , he was no coward and he would not budge , he was determined to see it built , to live in it in the season and to be happy there with his wife and daughter . |
| 11 | ‘ I was terrified — I saw a whole army of police arrive but he had run off . ’ |
| 12 | But he had drunk up her feeling with her blood . |
| 13 | Fei was not a native of the community that he studied ( the village of Kaihsienkung , in the Yangtze Delta , about 1 25 miles south-west of Shanghai ) , but he had grown up in the same district so that he was familiar with the nuances of the local dialect . |
| 14 | Until 1764 , Josiah had concentrated successfully upon the manufacture of what he called ‘ useful wares ’ , but he had carried out many experiments to improve the rather crude ‘ Egyptian black ’ wares already made by a number of Staffordshire potters . |
| 15 | Jordi had been in Salamanca only one day but he had found out where I was living . |
| 16 | D Rae new machine working well , but he had come up against MS-Works limitations . |
| 17 | Not only that , but he had worked out in the gym that morning , then managed a half-hour nap before heading out for an unusually late lunchtime start from the VIP terminal at Heathrow . |
| 18 | In the diary covering the last four years of his life there is little mention of books , but he had brought out an edition of Aristophanes ' ‘ Plutus ’ and ‘ Clouds ’ in 1767 . |
| 19 | But he had brought back with him from the pilgrimage no feeling of achievement or merit , only a sense of failure with which he was already too familiar . |
| 20 | In the morning he looked hollow-eyed , but he 'd gone off , with dogged cheerfulness , to take prayers at Snead Hall , a sad , second-rate little girls ' public school , where he was Chaplain , and the rest of them had caught the bus . |
| 21 | Yes , she 'd been worried about Nicolo 's intentions , but he 'd gone out of his way to tell her — to show her — that he was n't the least bit interested in her as a woman . |
| 22 | Julie had asked him what was going on but he 'd rushed out without telling her , mumbling only that it was important and that he did n't know when he 'd be back . |
| 23 | But he 'd stood up well to that first interview , hindered rather than helped by the presence of his solicitor , who had never seen his client before and had made it painfully apparent that he would prefer never to see him again . |
| 24 | But he 'd picked up hints that , at some point along the way , it 's be left on Vadinamia . ’ |
| 25 | The manager who took Sunderland to Wembley six months ago knows that he 's still not out of the woods , but he has turned back the clock in a bid to stay in business . |
| 26 | They also failed to take him seriously , and made him angry , but he has carried on the struggle . |
| 27 | While undergoing an operation his heart has stopped , but he has come back to life after having been declared dead and deposited in a coffin . |
| 28 | They shook John awake for boarding but he 's gone back to sleep . |
| 29 | Grant 's been off , but he 's gone back to work today . |
| 30 | I phoned Kevin , I 've got Kevin 's mum and dad 's phone number off Dave and phoned at home but he 's gone out for the day or something they said . |