Example sentences of "but he [verb] [vb infin] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Unlike Guillaume , Zborowski was unbusinesslike , and a poor book-keeper , but he did have a wonderful faith in Modigliani 's talent . |
| 5 | . 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 … |
| 6 | It was not possible to construct a satisfactory double blind challenge but he did have a positive open challenge to pure ethanol . |
| 7 | But he did have a long-established base on which to build — and that was the British class system . |