Example sentences of "but he [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could have side-stepped the issue completely , but he chose to give a frank response , dismissing as ‘ garbage ’ a Federal Bureau of Narcotics ' pamphlet which described marijuana as ‘ a powerful narcotic in which lurks murder , insanity and death ’ , words that might well have been taken as a reference to events in Hollywood , because they were almost identical to words used by the mass media in descriptions of Manson . |
| 2 | John Bowes could have spent the whole of his fortune on good living and racing but he chose to apply a large proportion to this fabulous collection and its breathtaking setting , which now forms part of our local heritage . |
| 3 | He puzzled over that , but he kept remembering the older man 's face , and the sadness in it , and the awful fact that he had n't retaliated in any way . |
| 4 | He explained that there never had been a bottle of perfume , but he had made the first call in front of his wife who was now quite happy because she thought her husband had merely left her birthday present behind , not , as he had actually done , completely forgotten her birthday . |
| 5 | Francis was trying to divide his attention between the little moving pictures and the Doctor 's argument with the dreadful Lacuna woman , but he had seen the blond girl smile in a way that made her face look almost unattractive , and he had heard her whisper savagely . |
| 6 | Owing to his lack of resources he had always been to some extent a figurehead , but he had become an indispensable one . |
| 7 | But he had stipulated a single girl , and she 'd assumed he would n't want children . |
| 8 | But he had lit a good coal fire in his bar . |
| 9 | It 's a very simple rhythm , but he had written the whole thing shifted over and I got the manuscript and I 'm looking at it and going ‘ Man , I know it 's been a while since I read a lot of solo guitar , but this does n't look right ! ’ |
| 10 | The blade tore Isambard 's cotte not an inch below his heart , but he had caught the lunging wrist in his left hand and jerked it outwards and downwards , and the thrust sliced through cotte and shirt down his ribs , and left only a harmless surface graze behind . |
| 11 | He may have been off colour in the World Cup , but he had set a fine example to others . |
| 12 | PC Roy McGregor then phoned the girl and said her boyfriend had AIDS — but he had got the wrong name , Kilmarnock Sheriff Court heard yesterday . |
| 13 | MICHAEL KINANE , the champion jockey of Ireland , completed the most sensational 24 hours of his career when he took the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on the British-trained 19-1 outsider , Carroll House , at Longchamp yesterday , but he had to endure the longest 20 minutes of his life before he could be sure the victory was his . |
| 14 | He had kept his youth and beauty , but he had paid a terrible price for it . |
| 15 | But he had used the wrong word ; ‘ peace ’ was far from the correct description of Merrill 's emotions , but … |
| 16 | Billy Sullivan was very polite and proper , if a blasphemer , but he had used the wicked words with passion , unable to express just what he felt in any other way . |
| 17 | Fergus had not been aware of the precise moment when the Lad of the Skins drew his soul from his body with the Knife of Light , but he had known a great coldness , and a sense of desolation , and an abandonment so complete that it had overwhelmed him , and for a time he had scarcely been aware of what was happening . |
| 18 | Clemens Krauss had taught classes in the past but he had left the whole thing in the hands of a Professor Wunderer and a man from the Vienna Philharmonic who was interested in conducting but had n't the slightest idea how to go about it . |
| 19 | But he had taken the great step . |
| 20 | He was a big , shambling , shy man , more than a little soured by life , but he had taken the two boys under his wing and Preston had loved him . |
| 21 | But he had provided a double failsafe mechanism for himself in case he accidently pressed the wrong key while accessing the code . |
| 22 | He had n't loved Vanessa , but he had enjoyed the fourteen months they 'd spent together here . |
| 23 | Peter would have liked to sit next to Kate but he had lacked the necessary social agility to secure the centre position . |
| 24 | But he failed to achieve a clean sweep of the end-of-season awards . |
| 25 | The one with the fine stripes looked slightly flashier , but he 'd made a better ironing job of the plain one . |
| 26 | And when I saw the landlady there she said that she did have a Mr there but he 'd left a few days ago , did n't know where he 'd got to . |
| 27 | ‘ Survival of the — ’ Jamie drew his breath in sharply and pulled the stick so hard he almost fell off his stool , but he managed to dodge the darting yellow bolts that had driven him into the corner of the screen' — nastiest . ’ |
| 28 | But he denied killing the third member of the film crew , Mr della Casa 's wife , Rosanna , who has never been found , said the newspaper . |
| 29 | But he recovered to plant a glorious chip over Kelly from 20 yards . |
| 30 | Thirdly he should be loved devoutly ( 113.171f. ) and sweetly and that is when the soul feels overcome with joy , burning in the heat of the Holy Ghost — a Noah 's ark of security in the love of God that nothing can destroy : On the question of how the lover can recognise whether he is loving , Rolle warns that apart from the overwhelming assurance which accompanies the gift of the experience of singular love , man can not live by certainty , but faith , since that is the nature of the game ; but he does suggest a do-it-yourself questionnaire which is really designed to reveal to the user where his heart is fixed . |