Example sentences of "but he [vb past] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is some five years since I worked with Mr Edell in his previous incarnation as a lawyer , but he struck me as a man who would do the necessary . |
| 2 | But he told me of a new home just completed , where Aunt Louise had been offered a place . |
| 3 | But he told them in a straightforward way . |
| 4 | But he had her between a rock and a hard place , and the look in his eyes told her only too clearly that he knew it . |
| 5 | No I thought , cos I , I remember reading erm I think it 's her father who owns one of the bookshops in Woodbridge and he had this book on display , you know he sort of erm advertised it if you like and it 's , it 's properly published and everything but he had it as a a book available in his store and there was an advert in the Anglian about it , and I remember reading that she said er that he said er cos it was his daughter who had the child , that it totally knocked them for six . |
| 6 | He had , of course , known those grandparents whose glamour made Alexandra 's existence so difficult , but he saw them in a light so different from his wife 's that they seemed hardly the same people . |
| 7 | But he acquired it as an onlooker . |
| 8 | But he treated me like a little girl ; part of his training , I suppose . ’ |
| 9 | It was smooth and round but he carried it like a sack . |
| 10 | The students followed but he threatened them with a knife before running off . |
| 11 | After several hours Matron managed to calm him down but he left her in a terrible mood . |
| 12 | I had built him up to play it right to the heart of the green but he played it like a nervous three handicapper . |
| 13 | He acknowledged the dog 's overtures , but he eyed her with a good deal of concern . |
| 14 | Her doctor was convinced that most of Edith 's problems were psychosomatic , but he referred her to a specialist who was interested in such cases . |
| 15 | But he did it with a warming smile and a ready assumption of her allegiance and willingness , more as if he had asked a small current courtesy of his wife than given an order to a servant . |
| 16 | But he did it in a way which seemed to belittle others . |
| 17 | Ben moved across to the other side s ) f the window , trying to keep them in sight , but he lost them in a moment . |
| 18 | ‘ The job he offered me was a sort of general factotum , a personal troubleshooter , but he wanted someone with a financial background . |
| 19 | He played a diabolical second shot and he must have finished all of 20 yards from the hole , but he sank it for a 3 . |
| 20 | Barth was deeply impressed by Anselm 's so-called ‘ Ontological Argument ’ for the existence of God — this argument will be looked at in more detail later — but he interpreted it in a particular way . |
| 21 | She lifted her gaze to him once more , but he hushed her with a finger pressed lightly to her lips . |
| 22 | In Sybil he had rejoined his past but he transplanted it to an artistic suburb of London which had been the haunt of legendary highwaymen , was now the roost of exiles and writers and only fifteen minutes from the West End theatre . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sorry , I did n't meant to imply … to insult — ’ Belinda began , but he silenced her with a pat on the knee that made her tingle frighteningly all over . |
| 24 | But he found himself in a double bind ; the bankers said they would withdraw their support if he left and this would have killed the business instantly . |