Example sentences of "but he was [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sara glanced at Dr Kent , but he was looking at Juliet and smiling . |
| 2 | Aplin nodded , but he was looking at Seb . |
| 3 | But he was filled with facts and figures and determined to recite every one , as effective a way as any to silence the whispers of antiquity that danced in the air . |
| 4 | but he was filled with fear and horror |
| 5 | One last lingering look at the place where she had last seen him , but he was gone from sight , gone from her now . |
| 6 | In 524 he attacked Godomar , in alliance with the Ostrogoths , but he was killed at Vézeronce . |
| 7 | She then fell in love with an RAF pilot but he was killed in World War Two before they were married . |
| 8 | But he was trained in action rather than in comfort . |
| 9 | His injuries were not serious but he was kept in North Tees Hospital overnight . |
| 10 | Dynamius tried to lock them out of the city , but he was tricked by Gundulf . |
| 11 | But he was learning from experience and moved from town to town to polish his burglary skills . |
| 12 | He did not stand for re-election to the Parliament of 1780 ; but he was elected for Ripon in 1787 , and became a commissioner of the Board of Trade in 1788 . |
| 13 | But he was checked at Trou . |
| 14 | Maggie glanced anxiously at Felipe but he was riding in silence with Mitch , well in front of them . |
| 15 | Last summer , he surrendered to Pakistani authorities for an investigation , but he was freed on bail three months later because of lack of evidence . |
| 16 | Mr. Andrew supported Captain Bowman , but he was overruled by Mr. Ingard and Captain Bowman had to go . |
| 17 | Rudolf Diesel 's father might have been German but he was born in Paris . |
| 18 | Like Super Mario , our Mario 's family is Italian but he was born in Croatia and now worries about his homeland 's problems . |
| 19 | But he was born in Govan and , in spite of an American accent , says he is a proud Scot . |
| 20 | The fans hoped Fry would attend , but he was instructed by solicitors to stay away . |
| 21 | Bobby Anscombe had intended his ultimatum as an exit line , but he was stopped by Michael Banks , who had worked with him in the past and knew his volatile temper . |
| 22 | The exact date of Traherne 's death is not known , but he was buried in Teddington 10 October 1674 under the reading-desk in the church . |
| 23 | ‘ They 're lies … ’ began Wolfe , but he was cuffed into silence by the man behind him . |
| 24 | Where he was educated is not known but he was apprenticed to John Marshall , a surgeon from Kilsyth , who was in charge of Glasgow University 's Physick garden in 1704 ( a physick garden was a source of herbs and other plants used for medical purposes ) . |
| 25 | But he was used to people not liking him or his company and so took their attitude as expected . |
| 26 | He laughed , too , but he was seized by hopelessness . |
| 27 | But he was informed in November , while still at Princeton , that he had won the Nobel Prize for Literature . |
| 28 | ‘ But he was going to Australia , I thought . |
| 29 | I have never met him since for I left Bristol before he was appointed to the Chair of Music but he was remembered with affection by many of my peers . |
| 30 | Richard Vines was its librarian , but he was removed from office after six years and , after he had openly burned his certificate of membership of the society , he was voted to be a non-member . |