Example sentences of "but he [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He worked with the CNR , the Provisional Consultative Assembly , the political parties , and the resistance movements , but he continued to insist that he was accountable only to the French people , who would make their will known after liberation . |
| 2 | Border , who once said that the day Marsh and David Boon are out of the Australian side will be the day he goes as well , got back out on the ground soon enough , but he continued to fuel the fire by staying behind in Adelaide that evening while the rest of the team flew on to Perth to prepare for the fifth and final Test . |
| 3 | His career as a virtuoso dancer came to an end in the 1960s , when he suffered an injury , but he continued to take on character parts , notably as the widow Simone in Ashton 's Fille , and remained with the company until 1989 . |
| 4 | He came — she felt the moment in pain and sadness — but he continued to move , banging at her , clutching just that part of her that he needed , as if he 'd felt nothing , as if he did n't know when to stop . |
| 5 | But he continued to insure himself against such social accidents as might reactivate his grief by avoiding the streets of Reine and its inhabitants . |
| 6 | After the collapse of the plot Montgomerie fled to London , but he continued to engage in Jacobite intrigue , and in late 1691 he tried to encourage a rising of Presbyterian extremists in the south-western lowlands . |
| 7 | In 1910 he became partially paralysed , losing the use of his legs , but he continued to drive about his garden and woods . |
| 8 | He confirmed that he had no intention of imposing presidential rule ( he had earlier given such an assurance in talks with Gorbunovs ) , but he continued to lay the blame for the crisis on the " unconstitutional acts " of the Baltic republics ' parliaments . |
| 9 | But he continued to serve her mother , being partly responsible for the tragedy of the duchess 's lady-in-waiting , Lady Flora Hastings [ q.v. ] , who died of a tumour while suspected of being pregnant by Conroy . |
| 10 | But he continued to broadcast and write a weekly column for the Armagh Gazette as well as completing a book of rural tales , And the Band Played On , published by Friar 's Bush Press . |
| 11 | But he continued to bundle up her things , nothing in his face betraying his masculine opinion of the rest of her serviceable undies . |
| 12 | His belief in diplomasi rather than struggle , perjuangan , was severely tested , but he continued to maintain a balancing act . |
| 13 | This led some people to maintain that he had derived the idea of civil disobedience from Thoreau , a fact which Gandhi himself denied.a In due course he substituted the phrase ‘ civil resistance ’ for ‘ civil disobedience ’ on the grounds that it conveyed the notion of non-violence better , but he continued to regard civil disobedience as a branch of satyāgraha . |
| 14 | Ross knew he had already waited too long , but he continued to look through the scope , hoping for a clean shot at his chosen mark . |
| 15 | The death of Gore in 1914 was a great loss to Gilman , but he continued to experiment . |
| 16 | Nasogastric feeding was started with ½ strength feed but he continued to deteriorate and developed persistent vomiting . |
| 17 | He and Auntie Lucy moved to a small cottage nearby , but he continued to keep sheep in the fields surrounding our home . |
| 18 | Wittgenstein withdrew from co-authorship in 1934 , but he continued to assist Waismann in this Schlick-directed project . |
| 19 | There he had an official residence , but he continued to run his Whitechapel nursery , with another in London Fields . |
| 20 | His nursing care was gradually reduced as Stanley became more independent , but he continued to have a nurse in attendance overnight , when he was most likely to suffer the epileptic fits . |
| 21 | The Speakmans decided to keep Lutz with them but he continued to have problems . |
| 22 | Thomas could now look back on the papers he had begun , or completed and sold in his first two terms , as ‘ vain stuff ’ but he continued to write verses , which were sent to Harry and Helen . |
| 23 | In 1892 , with an international reputation , he retired , having sold his herbarium to Kew , but he continued to write , his Fungoid Pests of Cultivated Plants ( 1906 ) being very well received . |
| 24 | But he continued to advance , for she was accusing him of going out of his mind . |
| 25 | His lashes flickered but he continued to probe . |
| 26 | But he chose to do so by exploiting the lieutenancy offered to him by Philip the Fair in 1295 , rather than by rebellion against the crown . |
| 27 | He could have side-stepped the issue completely , but he chose to give a frank response , dismissing as ‘ garbage ’ a Federal Bureau of Narcotics ' pamphlet which described marijuana as ‘ a powerful narcotic in which lurks murder , insanity and death ’ , words that might well have been taken as a reference to events in Hollywood , because they were almost identical to words used by the mass media in descriptions of Manson . |
| 28 | Mittwoch ( 1990 : 117 ) feels very similar impressions to those described by Cotte : like him , she points out that a sentence such as ( 218a ) seems contradictory whereas ( 218b ) does not : ( 218a ) * She let him stay at home yesterday but he chose to go to school all the same . |
| 29 | ( 218b ) She allowed him to stay at home yesterday but he chose to go to school all the same . |
| 30 | Rovers vice-chairman Geoff Dunford explained : ‘ Dennis was given the option to work alongside Allison , but he chose to leave . ’ |