Example sentences of "but he [is] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he is flying in the face of opposition from the ruling Labour group who recently boycotted a visit by a South African diplomat saying it was too early to bring them in from the cold . |
| 2 | Defence Secretary Rifkind is reported to be grateful for support from the fourteen military minded Conservatives whose confidential letter to the Prime Minister was somehow left lying on a copying machine for a Labour researcher to find , but he is irritated by the leak , an insider murmurs that Malcolm 's notching up black marks for the future . |
| 3 | But he is hampered along the way by a girl ( Miranda Otto ) . |
| 4 | But he is perceived as the spokesman of the new regime , and he has always said that he wanted the Panel to ‘ find a company to hang ’ . |
| 5 | But he is found by the air hostess and bustled on board . |
| 6 | There is only the lower half of the hero on the sherd but he is identified by the club , an unusually thin example , and with a cross hilt one expects on a sword , on his right hangs the lower part of the lion skin , behind him on the left are two long-necked birds , identifying this Labour , although there is no evidence of the bow ( fig. 14.35 ) . |
| 7 | But he is fuming over the interference in his work of the chief executive , Lionello Celon . |
| 8 | But he 's getting to the point where I 'm ready for saying to him away you go down to your granny 's right , but my mam can nae live with him either . |
| 9 | ‘ Andy Gregory has been a brilliant scrum-half , but he 's coming to the end of his career and can only be a short-term buy for Doug Laughton at Leeds . |
| 10 | So I rang Paul and er he 's coming up tomorrow , he would have come in today had to go to but he 's coming in the morning to look at it . |
| 11 | ‘ I know what you 're thinking , but he 's changed in the last year or so . |