Example sentences of "but he [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then Danny McCann could have scored a second for Fairmile in the dying moments , but he shot over from a good position . |
| 2 | To Ruth , crouching by Gran , he seemed hugely tall ; but he gazed round like a helpless child , seeming not to see them at first . |
| 3 | I walked up to the little animal but he took off at a speed which made light of his infirmity . |
| 4 | His eyesight was below par which disqualified him from being a pilot — and annoyed him a lot — but he passed out as a navigator . |
| 5 | Janet posted a letter for me last week to a friend who I worked with at Ipswich , she was one of the girls behind the counter and at the moment they , her and her husband , he , he , he , he was on the , he finished up but he started as a lad in the kitchen but he finished up as a chef on the dining cars and they married and er and they 've got er two children erm they 're married to and , and we kept , we 've kept in touch with each other for sixty years |
| 6 | For a few anxious moments Franco thought he was dead but he came round within a minute or so although he remained in a semi-conscious state . |
| 7 | Donald was in full cry but he came up against a rejuvenated Kapil Dev . |
| 8 | But he came home to a recession . |
| 9 | But he came back to a letter from dole chiefs telling him he would not get his income support cash for the 2 1/2 weeks he was away . |
| 10 | The gang pounced on him and knocked him to the ground — but he curled up into a ball to save himself as punches and kicks rained down . |
| 11 | I know that my father did use it for a while , lighting the stove with it , but he has n't for a while . |
| 12 | Goldwyn tried to stamp his own notions of quality and Americanism on his pictures , but he did so as a tycoon , in competition with writers , directors and stars . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , he decided to side with Detroit on the day , so that he might be as comfortably partisan as usual , but he did so among a group of Pittsburgh supporters , whom he referred to throughout the same as Pitts-buggers , which did nothing to improve inter-City relations . |
| 14 | Richard Holmes was something of an expert at the game , but he ended up as a down-and-out by the end . |
| 15 | But he ended up in a scuffle and the youth was wounded . |
| 16 | From Pforta in 1864 he went to the University of Bonn to read classical philology and theology , but he stayed only for a single year . |
| 17 | She sat down beside him , instinctively putting her arm out to support him , but he jerked forward with a sharp gasp , and she saw the brown lines of dried blood across the back of his shirt . |
| 18 | But he stood there in a pew , with the flowers . |
| 19 | but he spoke quickly with a very strong accent and that |