Example sentences of "but he [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " 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 | He had not seen the kings but he told her of the baby who was born to be King in a nearby village called Bethlehem . |
| 3 | But he told me of a new home just completed , where Aunt Louise had been offered a place . |
| 4 | But he told them in a straightforward way . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was a short , precise man with a small moustache which reminded me a little of Hitler 's , but he had none of the German leader 's belligerence . |
| 8 | But he had none of the grandiloquence of Vasco Núñez ; he uttered none of the proud formulae Balboa had uttered in the Gulf of San Migud . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But he knew nothing of the Pacific 's tides . |
| 11 | But he knew nothing of the practical techniques of modelling and carving . |
| 12 | But he acquired it as an onlooker . |
| 13 | She tried to embrace him , but he seized her by the arms and shook her till her teeth chattered . |
| 14 | It came apart in his arms , but he bundled it onto the bed . |
| 15 | But he treated me like a little girl ; part of his training , I suppose . ’ |
| 16 | In The New York Times , Vincent Canby thought McQueen was ‘ as all-American as a Rover Boy ’ and Hoffman was ‘ not especially convincing ’ , but he enjoyed it as the sort of ‘ escapist movie we used to go see on Saturday night without even bothering to read the marquee ’ . |
| 17 | It was smooth and round but he carried it like a sack . |
| 18 | I pulled him away and tried to get him upstairs in case he was traumatized for life , but he kicked me in the balls . |
| 19 | His Irish wife , Aylish O'Flaherty , ran off with their son , whom she feared would be raised as a heretic ; this was enough , by the statutes of the time , to have the marriage dissolved and the boy dispossessed ; but he distinguished himself in the Civil War , raising a troop of horse for the royalists , while the castle was occupied by Cromwellian troops . |
| 20 | Yeah , yeah was kind , it was kind of them , yes and we went all round the shops and er I thoroughly enjoyed it and in the new Co-Op as well you know , I thoroughly enjoyed it but he took me in the car so that we did n't have to hang about you see |
| 21 | She did not provide him with wine , to be sure , but he took it in the caffè he frequented , a caffè where politics were argued over far into the night and the arguers fell asleep at the table . |
| 22 | The students followed but he threatened them with a knife before running off . |
| 23 | After several hours Matron managed to calm him down but he left her in a terrible mood . |
| 24 | I had built him up to play it right to the heart of the green but he played it like a nervous three handicapper . |
| 25 | Mr Richardson said : ‘ His mother tried to bar him from using the telephone but he connected himself to the line by running a piece of wire under the carpet and soldering it to the telephone terminal . ’ |
| 26 | He acknowledged the dog 's overtures , but he eyed her with a good deal of concern . |
| 27 | The January price rises [ see p. 38730-31 ] had been higher than expected and painful , but he described them as the logical conclusions of the policies of Soviet Prime Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov and Valentin Pavlov . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Maggie expected him to look annoyed but he did nothing of the sort . |
| 30 | She realised at once that he could be forgiven if he reminded her that she had n't been too sugary herself during that phone call : but he did nothing of the kind , though he did allow himself a small smirk before all trace of a smile went from him . |