Example sentences of "but he [verb] [adv] the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | He does n't like going to school for a start , but he goes else the old man beats him up . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |