Example sentences of "but he [adv] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of what the latter says about information theory , feedback and signal detection is old hat , but he generously leaves us one or two bones to pick . |
| 2 | Gedge has a rather cynical disdain for his early involvement with music but he nevertheless recognises its lasting influence . |
| 3 | But he bravely hid his hurt feelings , and watched Boldwood and Bathsheba ride away , feeling as sure as the other workers that the couple would soon be married . |
| 4 | But he soon found it expedient to use unsavoury characters to control even nastier ones further down the party line . |
| 5 | She waited to see if he would explain anything about himself , but he simply sipped his cold beer in silence , idly watching a group of children playing see-saw with a plank of wood over a tree stump . |
| 6 | But he rarely wears anything other than jeans and a T-shirt whatever the occasion . |
| 7 | But he rarely wears anything other than jeans and a T-shirt whatever the occasion . |
| 8 | But he probably posted his best effort in defeat when just shaded by Cambrian in a 23-runner Newmarket handicap on his final start . |
| 9 | Perhaps he regards the flag as a suitable prop to emphasise the sentiments of ‘ Glamorous Glue ’ , but he well knows its other connotations . |
| 10 | From this episode Hopkins evoked a magnificent description of that wild night ; but he also provided his own elucidation of God 's dealing with His creatures : God had shown forth both His majesty and His compassion . |
| 11 | But he also considered it important that a full-time professional should represent the WEA when dealing with other professional organisers such as local authority officers , representatives of management and trade unions , and the warden of the county 's residential college Knuston Hall . |
| 12 | Nigel was annoyed , but he also found it funny . |
| 13 | Part of his apparently subdued reaction to the Nobel no doubt sprang from a genuine lack of confidence in his ability to continue writing ( it was not , for him , a novel feeling ) but he also found it difficult in conversation to react to praise or flattery — like Coriolanus , he did not like to hear his " nothings monster 'd " . |
| 14 | But he also gave me enough to cover all my fees , legal fees . |
| 15 | I tried once or twice to reverse our roles , but he again made it clear that he did not want to talk about himself I said nothing about the glove . |
| 16 | Without her , Perkin would have had his way but he finally took his dangerous hand off the shaft . |
| 17 | I meant the hon. Gentleman , but he almost became my hon. Friend because of his grudging acceptance of the principle of testing . |
| 18 | He 's unpatronising towards the individuals whose lives and circumstances illustrate his subject , but he continually questions his own attitudes and motivation . |
| 19 | He might be a man with a wife in absentia , but he usually directed his charismatic charm towards ladies who , once again , he rightly suspected , knew their way about . |
| 20 | The same thought had crossed Dalziel 's mind much earlier , but he still found it hard to believe . |
| 21 | He declared that his large diamond rings were his investment ; they probably were as after his ‘ crash ’ some disappeared but he still maintained his two houses . |
| 22 | Roy Bailey made his Palace debut at the age of just 17 years , but he only became our regular goalkeeper after his spell of National Service had ended early in 1953 , and then it soon became clear that Roy was a goalkeeper of the highest quality , even though he was performing in a Palace side that was almost invariably struggling . |
| 23 | He had not returned any fulsome gratitude to his staff for all the work they had put in during the day ; but he always found it difficult to express his deeper feelings . |
| 24 | He said tie this and I 'll give you a penny , but he never gavr me any money . |
| 25 | They had three daughters , but he never saw his third daughter ; she was born in Canada after the upheavals of the civil war and the Japanese invasion of China had persuaded Liddell to send his pregnant wife and young children to safety in 1941 . |
| 26 | ‘ I met a parson once that was good to me , but he never gave me any treacle tart , just a kind message of 'ope . |