Example sentences of "but he [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This led some people to maintain that he had derived the idea of civil disobedience from Thoreau , a fact which Gandhi himself denied.a In due course he substituted the phrase ‘ civil resistance ’ for ‘ civil disobedience ’ on the grounds that it conveyed the notion of non-violence better , but he continued to regard civil disobedience as a branch of satyāgraha . |
| 2 | He should have finished at university long ago , but he kept taking extra courses , changing subjects and things . |
| 3 | From what I 've seen of Bardsley , he reminds me a bit of Sterland — he looks very good going forward but he seemed to leave gaping holes at the back when he played for England ( ca n't remember who it was against ) . |
| 4 | The Brownies did n't know it , but he had asked Brown Owl to marry him . |
| 5 | Her time would come , but he had to choose that time . |
| 6 | His first Grand Prix was the 1951 Swiss when he was in a British HWM but he had to wait four years for his first success . |
| 7 | But he had given patient thought to the matter , just as he had to the rest of the alien anatomy ; and he had ventured on what I can only call an abstraction of the human face . |
| 8 | The emergency services were in attendance within 22 minutes , but he had received fatal injuries . |
| 9 | It concerned the plot to overthrow his brother and form a new dictatorship ; but he had discovered another side to the story , a sinister angle that would make international headlines if it were ever made public . |
| 10 | It took him six hours to make a long , thin rope , but he had lost all sense of time . |
| 11 | Dippy Martin had not seen anyone but he had spent some time at the top of the lane . |
| 12 | He was surprised , there was not an ounce of fat on him , but he had shed five pounds . |
| 13 | One MPG teacher thought that , in theory , job satisfaction would increase if there was greater involvement in making decision , but he had had little experience of this ! |
| 14 | By the time Marx wrote Formen he had not yet read Maine and Phear , who were to influence him later , but he had read descriptive accounts of Indian and Indonesian village life and history , especially in Sir Thomas Raffles , History of Java [ 1817 ] , M. Wilks , Historical Sketches of the South of India [ 1810–17 ] , and G. Campbell , Modern India [ 1852 ] , all of which are quoted in Capital . |
| 15 | He wanted to leave now too , but he had to make some kind of contact with the dead man first . |
| 16 | But he had taken enormous risks . |
| 17 | But he had taken three years to get there . |
| 18 | But he had chipped two bones in the pastern of his off-hind leg in the race and was sidelined again until fully recovered , remaining in his box from December 1977 until July 1978 . |
| 19 | Lord Sutherland said that the accused had not intended to cause death or even serious injury but he had shown reckless disregard for Mr Buckley 's safety . |
| 20 | There Tyndale wrote to urge him to avoid any discussion of the Sacraments , but he failed to take this advice and was convicted as a heretic precisely on this question and was burned . |
| 21 | Yes , Devlin had worked there for a while , but he 'd left three days ago . |
| 22 | But he 'd shown definite signs of resigning himself to the situation — until her arrival downstairs after breakfast . |
| 23 | His shoulder hit the floor with a thud that knocked the wind out of him but he managed to get one hand under the vase at full stretch and slithered across the marble floor juggling the smooth-glazed porcelain above his head . |
| 24 | It was true that he had been educated at a public school , but he managed to disguise this handicap very well . |
| 25 | But he refused to give any money at all for Gabriel-Ernest 's memorial . |
| 26 | He thought that probably it would be the evening before Jagatan woke , but he needed to discuss certain matters with him before he left for Kinsai . |
| 27 | Acton was certainly a minority spokesman and was challenged even by contemporaries in his attitude to female sexuality , but he did express pervasive anxieties . |
| 28 | But he did reconsider next day , when he saw her watching the passage of the porter from the refectory before noon , and following him with her eyes as he turned in between infirmary and schoolroom , where the two small stony cells were built into the angle of the wall , close to the wicket that led through to the mill and the pond . |
| 29 | Two of them , Zouher Kabbara and his cousin Nadim Kabbara , had unfortunately been arrested in Rome about a month before Coleman arrived on Cyprus , but he did meet Sami Jafaar , a short , stocky , fast-talking Shiite drug runner with a hairy chest festooned with gold chains and medallions . |
| 30 | Fortunately the boy had not been too badly hurt but he did require minor surgery in addition to the treatment of several cuts and bruises . |