Example sentences of "but he [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes watered so fiercely that tears ran down his cheeks , but he fought down the choking sensation and his self-esteem soared . |
| 2 | When James succeeded his brother Charles as king in 1685 he showed that he was willing to make the power of the Crown more effective in North America by pressing on with the creation of the Dominion of New England , but he had neither the surplus revenue nor the obedient bureaucracy needed to run a system like that applied by continental monarchs . |
| 3 | He did n't really mind which one , the Hallé would do for a start , but he had n't the faintest idea how to go about it and nor had anyone else . |
| 4 | But he had n't the easy masculine camaraderie , the blend of cynicism and machismo which had bound old Doc Stoddard so strongly to the Force . |
| 5 | His knowledge of English furniture was legendary , but he had too a sharp eye for pictures . |
| 6 | He does n't like going to school for a start , but he goes else the old man beats him up . |
| 7 | Blunt saw nothing ahead but he shot off a dozen rounds on impulse as he plunged through a great hole . |
| 8 | But he envied more the great herring gulls and black-headed gulls which he watched through the bars of his cage as they soared on the summery winds , the white and grey of their feathers caught brightly by the sun as they banked into a turn . |
| 9 | Mr Rabin said he favoured allowing some deportees to join the Palestinian delegation , but he ruled out the two deportees on the reported Egyptian list because they were PLO officials . |
| 10 | Turner did the grand tour , certainly ; he learnt a lot in Italy , but he learnt equally a great deal from English artists and from Dutch artists and in so far as he used the grand tour , and used what Rome and other countries had to offer , that 's what every artist did , every European artist , not just the English . |
| 11 | made it down the right hand side , he 's wearing number eleven but he came down the right hand side on this occasion and er a deep cross , he pulled it back brilliantly and who 'd missed that earlier header was there and could n't really miss on this occasion , but it was a fine header by him . |
| 12 | David Damiani said nothing for several seconds after finishing his narrative but he opened up a battered suitcase and produced from it his old pale brown British Palestine passport and opened the document on page six . |
| 13 | Tolkien said that he ‘ disliked ’ Shakespeare ‘ cordially ’ , but he used exactly the same phrase of allegory too , where it concealed an opinion of some subtlety . |
| 14 | Rossini set the words of his theatre librettists happily and so , give or take a few personal quiddities , did the Italian stories , outline and the dictate the treatment , but he handed over the actual versification to Piave , Ghislanzoni , Boito and the rest . |
| 15 | After an impressive first year as a factory rider , Zeelenberg was in big demand but he turned down the lucrative offers without a moment 's hesitation . |