Example sentences of "but in [adj] [noun] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in recent years he has spent £50,000 of his own money and much time on charitable causes . |
| 2 | Until 1892 Townsend 's practice was made up of minor domestic and ecclesiastical work , but in that year he won the competition for the design of the Bishopsgate Institute , the first of the three outstanding public buildings that were to make his reputation . |
| 3 | I need not refer to his history in any more detail up to June 1990 , but in that month he went to a residential school where his mother continued to visit him and in October 1990 he absconded from that school . |
| 4 | It 's only three or four paces , but in that moment he sees Tommy tense his arm at full stretch and turn his head away . |
| 5 | The whole performance had taken no more than a minute , but in that time he 'd succeeded in turning the Chamber 's table into a fish-market gutter . |
| 6 | Cardinal Hume is 70 years old , but in that programme he looked at the vocation to the religious life with all the zest of youth . |
| 7 | I managed to keep boys away from him , but in one alley he disappeared . |
| 8 | But in all cases he has been stopped by diocesan authorities as the centres are outside his parish . |
| 9 | But in all cases he found that local people 's blood showed concentrations only marginally higher than national averages , and locally grown vegetables had concentrations within safety limits . |
| 10 | He never played any more tricks on me but in other ways he progressed into more serious misdemeanours . |
| 11 | This artist is less interested in ornament than Euphronios , often content with borders in black silhouette rather than red-figure ; but in other respects he takes on from him and goes further . |
| 12 | It was not necessary , he could have rung once he had arrived , but in this way he committed himself . |
| 13 | Eisenhower conceded that the West was suffering from " the tyrannies of the weak " , but in this instance he did not question the legality of the act of nationalization . |
| 14 | He was famous for picking sportsmen young and preparing them for success ; but in this case he had picked an apparent no-hoper like Harley , who immediately confirmed his judgement by notching up three tournament victories . |
| 15 | The relevant statute empowered the minister to set up such a committee but in this case he refused to do so on the ground that the complaint was unsuitable for investigation because it raised wide issues ; that if the committee upheld the complaint he would be expected to make an order to give effect to the committee 's recommendations ; and that the complaint should be dealt with by the Board rather than by the committee of investigation . |
| 16 | But in some respects he seems to be left over from a previous age . |
| 17 | Mr. Karsten submits that on the face of it that passage in the judgment of Lord Donaldson M.R. should be considered as obiter , but in any event he submits that it does not bear the meaning contended for by Mr. Wall . |
| 18 | He may have felt nervous about having plundered Calcutta or he may have thought he had done enough to show who was master in Bengal , but in any case he withdrew and paid the Company some compensation for its losses . |
| 19 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 20 | In reality Roland had been killed in a Basque ambush at the Pass of Roncesvaux but in twelfth-century legend he died gloriously , fighting for Christendom in the great war against the infidel . |
| 21 | It was a great comfort to have him here , but in three days he went back to San Francisco . |