Example sentences of "[noun] but he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gedge thought Charman was technically the worst of all the contenders but he liked the right bands in The Folk Devils , Josef K and The Three Johns , and more especially , he had an obsessive interest in The Fall . |
| 2 | Mr Buxton would not say how many companies were bidding for the work but he hoped the successful tender would be accepted in March , allowing work to start . |
| 3 | There was some feeling among his staff that AEAs corporate strategy of ‘ All sticking together ’ had been undermined by the latest announcement but he believed the best way forward was in maintaining standards of service and keeping customers . |
| 4 | He had little skill in forest lore but he knew the principal rides and paths of the forest well . |
| 5 | It was a good case he wanted us to remember that there 's a hunger for the word of God and that what we should be worried about was poverty in the things of the spirit but he made the blank statement and it shocked one young man called John who at the time was the minister of a church extension charge in one of our deprived housing situations . |
| 6 | I do n't know whether it was inspired intuition but he pinched the grating on the day of the Darrowby Gala . |
| 7 | He freely acknowledged that responsibility for the development in rural areas of Essex would lie with the RAC but he invited the resident tutor to expand , if he so wished , his activities into existing WEA centres at Chelmsford , Harwich , Dovercourt and Silver End . |