Example sentences of "but he [vb past] [pers pn] [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 | 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 | She tried to embrace him , but he seized her by the arms and shook her till her teeth chattered . |
9 | It came apart in his arms , but he bundled it onto the bed . |
10 | But he treated me like a little girl ; part of his training , I suppose . ’ |
11 | 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 ’ . |
12 | It was smooth and round but he carried it like a sack . |
13 | I pulled him away and tried to get him upstairs in case he was traumatized for life , but he kicked me in the balls . |
14 | 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 |
15 | 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 . |
16 | The students followed but he threatened them with a knife before running off . |
17 | After several hours Matron managed to calm him down but he left her in a terrible mood . |
18 | I had built him up to play it right to the heart of the green but he played it like a nervous three handicapper . |
19 | He acknowledged the dog 's overtures , but he eyed her with a good deal of concern . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | But he did it in a way which seemed to belittle others . |
24 | Ben moved across to the other side s ) f the window , trying to keep them in sight , but he lost them in a moment . |
25 | Her husband might want justice , but he wanted it through the proper channels . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | But he ended it under the cloud of suspicion caused by a random test which confirmed he had taken drugs . |
29 | She would have run past him , but he caught her by the elbow . |
30 | She lifted her gaze to him once more , but he hushed her with a finger pressed lightly to her lips . |