Example sentences of "but he [verb] [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but he does talk broad Yorkshire ! |
| 2 | ‘ The Hennessy was no fluke and he has obviously been under-rated but he does need soft ground , ’ said Murphy . |
| 3 | He has sole responsibility for Belfast , but he does have regional directors going to but Brian tends to cover a general manager role and with with erm Dick ma , . |
| 4 | He is very good , Mr , and he has been a county councillor in I think Staffordshire , before the days of pindown I have to er , hasten to add , but he does know both sides of the er , street as it were . |
| 5 | Acton was certainly a minority spokesman and was challenged even by contemporaries in his attitude to female sexuality , but he did express pervasive anxieties . |
| 6 | But he did reconsider next day , when he saw her watching the passage of the porter from the refectory before noon , and following him with her eyes as he turned in between infirmary and schoolroom , where the two small stony cells were built into the angle of the wall , close to the wicket that led through to the mill and the pond . |
| 7 | Two of them , Zouher Kabbara and his cousin Nadim Kabbara , had unfortunately been arrested in Rome about a month before Coleman arrived on Cyprus , but he did meet Sami Jafaar , a short , stocky , fast-talking Shiite drug runner with a hairy chest festooned with gold chains and medallions . |
| 8 | Fortunately the boy had not been too badly hurt but he did require minor surgery in addition to the treatment of several cuts and bruises . |
| 9 | General Mola was inferior in rank and had less prestige among the military , but he did have two factors in his favour : he was the director of the conspiracy and he was in command of all the rebel troops in the northern half of the country , thus " mirroring " Franco 's command in the south . |
| 10 | But he did have fancy thoughts sometimes , nor were they always wrong . |
| 11 | Robert Leeson ( 22nd January ) may be right in suggesting that Just William might not have wanted to be a Tory minister , but he did have parliamentary ambitions . |