Example sentences of "but he [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mittwoch ( 1990 : 117 ) feels very similar impressions to those described by Cotte : like him , she points out that a sentence such as ( 218a ) seems contradictory whereas ( 218b ) does not : ( 218a ) * She let him stay at home yesterday but he chose to go to school all the same . |
| 2 | ( 218b ) She allowed him to stay at home yesterday but he chose to go to school all the same . |
| 3 | In October Swinderby appeared and handed in another defence of a longer set of opinions ; on these he was adjudged heretical , but he managed to escape from custody . |
| 4 | But he refused to comment on speculation that it was the home of a former girlfriend of Mr McEvoy . |
| 5 | It does occur to Fukuyama that religion might have some sort of unease to express with all this , but he appears to conceive of religion under only two modes . |
| 6 | She told the jury : ‘ I said to him , ‘ You are a married man , ’ but he tried to get on top of me . |