Example sentences of "but he [verb] [vb infin] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirdly he should be loved devoutly ( 113.171f. ) and sweetly and that is when the soul feels overcome with joy , burning in the heat of the Holy Ghost — a Noah 's ark of security in the love of God that nothing can destroy : On the question of how the lover can recognise whether he is loving , Rolle warns that apart from the overwhelming assurance which accompanies the gift of the experience of singular love , man can not live by certainty , but faith , since that is the nature of the game ; but he does suggest a do-it-yourself questionnaire which is really designed to reveal to the user where his heart is fixed . |
| 2 | Bert Green says he does n't know every wave and ripple , but he does know the winning route and he keeps that a secret . |
| 3 | Willy De Roose may have struck a lucky year enabling him to make the voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific without having to winter in the Arctic but he did do an enormous amount of preparation and historical reading beforehand for his planning of the voyage so that he was able to snatch opportunities whenever they came . |
| 4 | But he did like the young woman , a hoyden from Somerville who gambled on the horses and was always broke . |
| 5 | But he did enjoy the unfamiliar experience . ) |
| 6 | Gregory of Tours seems not to have known about the Trojan origin of the Franks , but he did know an undeveloped version of their migration legend . |
| 7 | Earlier , in 1278 , when Roger permitted the appropriation by Stafford priory of the church of Stowe by Chartley , he made no stipulation about the creation of a vicarage , but he did obtain a ten-mark annual pension for the dean and chapter of Lichfield 's common fund . |
| 8 | But he did notice the growing financial difficulty of his parents — unlike his son in 1939 , he was required to be furnished with a top hat for use on Sundays . |
| 9 | But he did believe the working class — which he referred to as if it were a single-willed person — would do somewhat unlikely things . |
| 10 | Bateman was unable to put his name on the League scorers ' list in spite of 32 appearances but he did get an important goal for Palace that season . |
| 11 | He did not feel the presence of the dead poet in the room , but he did have a vague excited sense that any of these containers — the desk , the trunks , the hat-boxes , might contain some treasure like the faded letters in his own breast-pocket . |
| 12 | Unlike Guillaume , Zborowski was unbusinesslike , and a poor book-keeper , but he did have a wonderful faith in Modigliani 's talent . |
| 13 | . It was a puzzle to me to think that any customers wanted any of these things in the alley he lived , but he did have a few visitors , because he dealt in antiques , he knew a great deal about them … |
| 14 | It was not possible to construct a satisfactory double blind challenge but he did have a positive open challenge to pure ethanol . |
| 15 | But he did have a long-established base on which to build — and that was the British class system . |
| 16 | ‘ Not now , that 's true , but he did have an older brother , who died nine years ago . ’ |