Example sentences of "but he [verb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant that , with the nineteen SDLP members , Faulkner could form a government but he represented only a minority of the unionist voters . |
| 2 | But he got up the front of the line and he got the job . |
| 3 | The Zikr must have been devout too , of course , but he got round a lot more than Zoser , mixed with people , liked crowd and noise and a bit of fun . |
| 4 | But he got down the pit , after you know whe after the War . |
| 5 | But he felt keenly the odium of his position . |
| 6 | But he said later the singer was content to leave the public to form its own conclusions . |
| 7 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
| 8 | Tug found it repulsive , but he had not the energy to resist and he let Doyle lead him upstairs as a father leads a child . |
| 9 | He tried to fight it , but he had not the strength . |
| 10 | Farrel mimicked Lowell 's pedantic voice inside his head , but he had n't the guts to initiate a confrontation . |
| 11 | For the first time in all his journeys he found a room that was completely empty , but he had n't the time to investigate it , or any of the others he entered . |
| 12 | He knew that he could have carried the coffee into the comparative serenity of his study but he had n't the courage to get to his feet . |
| 13 | But he had still a trick or two up his sleeve . |
| 14 | But he had really no message , either for victory or for reform . |
| 15 | We got to the water and put him out but he had virtually no clothing left on his back , it was all burnt away . ’ |
| 16 | Leeson had hoped that his imagination had exaggerated the resemblance , but he saw when the girl walked in that it had n't . |
| 17 | But he knew why the moment he entered the old schoolroom , for after allowing him to pass her she closed the door and stood with her back to it , her pale face , now tinged to a deep red , thrust out towards him as she cried , ‘ Think you 're smart , do n't you ? |
| 18 | He knew when he was beneath the gate-towers because he could see how the machicolations projected against the sky rounded shapes of darkness void of stars ; but he heard not a sound , not even the tread of the watch on the walk between the towers . |
| 19 | But he goes down a treat at the annual summer conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . |
| 20 | But he goes back a lot further — writing key speeches in Number Ten during the Heath government two decades ago . |
| 21 | She moved to go past him , but he shot out a hand and restrained her . |
| 22 | Sheron 's first shot was blocked but he tucked home the rebound from close range . |
| 23 | She had no intention of saying anything else ; in fact she had been quite undecided about answering him at all , but he looked just a bit too angry for outright defiance and he was decidedly bigger than she was . |
| 24 | I 'm sure he must be joking , but he picks up a pair of liquorice-coloured Everlasts and walks to the ring apron . |
| 25 | The young New Zealander came down to earth with a bruising bump in the World Cup and still has much to learn , but he remains potentially an all-rounder of world class . |
| 26 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 27 | ‘ Let go of me , ’ she snuffled , but he took absolutely no notice . |
| 28 | But he sells out every time he plays a show in Merseyside . |
| 29 | But he rolled back the years wearing his old jockeys ' uniform in the Radcliffe Selling Stakes at Nottingham . |
| 30 | Ah , but he went up a railway track , did n't he ? |