Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] he [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration .
2 I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time .
3 But I told him about the telly that it 's a bit beyond redemption .
4 I went to punch him but I caught him with the crowbar instead . ’
5 ‘ New-fangled ’ ideas , the farmer said , but I convinced him in the end .
6 ‘ Go on — it will cheer you up ’ but I dismissed him like the rest , saying I was not thirsty , despising the thought of drinking from the same grimy bottle which a rogue had .
7 This produced a flood of letters to Downing Street , which were kept from Baldwin during his long holiday , but which hit him with the force of a tidal wave on his return .
8 In. , Finally , the boy tried to squirm past her like a silverfish but she had him by the hair and was breaking the rifle over his head and shoulders when my father stopped her .
9 but she saw him on the way to work in town , had a bloody great barney with him on the market place on the way to work , just say , she was in there about ten minutes and burst into tears
10 The teenager tried to run away when the youths approached him but they punched him in the face and pushed him to the ground .
11 He tried to get away in his wheelchair , but they caught him in the hallway .
12 Nicol gave as good an account of himself as any of us , elder though he may be , and kept the key of the coffer safe , but they threw him off the cart , and coffer and all are gone , for it was there among the coppice wood .
13 Lord Harris admits Robertson has ‘ some weaknesses that , if not curbed , could totally cancel out his strengths ’ , but he defended him before the academic advisory council , on the grounds that he had not been sufficiently protected by guidelines , and that it would be difficult to find a replacement with his many gifts .
14 But it got him in the end .
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