Example sentences of "but he [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he later acted as agent for the chief minister , Robert Cecil , first Earl of Salisbury [ q.v. ] , over private bills , and supported the great contract to put government finances on a sounder footing . |
| 2 | Pressing for the abolition of the pernicious fee system had been an obvious target but he also pressed for liquor taps to be banned and the sale of drink to inmates to be closely regulated ; for the gaolers to be resident at the gaol instead of offering only minimal supervision if they lived away from it ; for the provision of chaplains and doctors and the detailing and publishing of prison rules and regulations . |
| 3 | Now playing at inside-right , Whitworth was top scorer with 16 goals , but he also combined with Frank so effectively that we had a comfortable 2nd Division season , and then he headed our scoring chart again in 1924–25 . |
| 4 | But he finally slipped into Sydney and left having signed a lucrative new deal to assist Australian rugby 's new television broadcaster , Channel Ten , with their marketing of rugby for the next three years . |
| 5 | The vicar would never have agreed to any kind of mock funeral , but he finally yielded to Midge 's plea that some intercession should be made for the souls of the unknown man and woman whose charred corpses lay in the refrigerator at the mortuary . |
| 6 | As soon as I was strong enough , and could walk again , I fetched my baby from the nursing home , but he then died of shock from an operation necessitated by stomach trouble . |
| 7 | Not only did Mr Solarz support a war that most liberal Democrats regarded as an invitation to disaster , but he actively pushed for confrontation with Iraq — linking arms in the process with such unlikely conservative allies as Richard Perle and Jeane Kirkpatrick . |
| 8 | In the summer of 1904 Alf returned to Roker Park for a club record fee of £520 ( a record which has since been eclipsed ) , but he only stayed at Sunderland for seven months . |
| 9 | True , he was an All-State footballer which gave him some excitement and fun ; but he always stayed in Neptune with Lorraine and with Mud . |
| 10 | He was indeed kind , exceptionally so ; but he never indulged in insincerity for the sake of pleasing , and he could be downright enough when he deemed it necessary . |