Example sentences of "but he [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he led poor Stevenson to his death , and he almost killed me . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Steiner 's mission ended in failure , but he led German soldiers in battle on English soil . |
| 3 | The father did not say a word but he shovelled many sandwiches into his mouth and swatted the occasional fly which landed on his fat body . |
| 4 | The critical promoter of the work of Seurat and his friends was Félix Fénéon , a subtle stylist who varied his methods according to the work he was describing ; he used expository language for Degas , but he dropped logical connection in language , even verbs when discussing Monet 's spontaneous art . |
| 5 | He was only a little 'un , but he got one weight over his head all right . |
| 6 | They quashed the murder charge but he got ten years for intent to wound resulting in death , plus , of course , half as much again because there was a firearm involved . ‘ |
| 7 | But he felt that position to be untenable . |
| 8 | The man below could not have seen the movement , but he felt some shifting of the air above him , or heard , perhaps , if he had a wild beast 's hearing as he had its gait , the mere rustle of a sleeve against the stone . |
| 9 | But he planted this gaol in the middle of Buckingham as a sort of rebuke to the townspeople . |
| 10 | I do n't know who killed him , but he had many enemies in Scotland . |
| 11 | But he had small taste for the bagging beer and wished to have bought himself a wine . |
| 12 | The Marquis de Chamlay , his most important military adviser in his later years , had the title of Maréchal-Général des Logis ; but he had little experience of active service and was often employed on non-military tasks . |
| 13 | But he had little confidence of backing from a UK government which seemed to have no idea about the fishing industry . |
| 14 | But he had additional sources of wealth and troops . |
| 15 | He did not regain any ability to use his right arm , but he had minimal spasticity in it , and no pain . |
| 16 | He contemplated eating a meat pie at the stall by the church , but he had enough experience of phantom hunger at night to know that it would disappear of its own accord by morning and that it was best not to squander money on appeasing it . |
| 17 | Kitson 's views were derided by the establishment but he had important influence in both radical and lunatic fringe circles . |
| 18 | But he had this thing about us [ seven brothers — two in Jamaica — and two sisters ] concentrating more and more on school work . ’ |
| 19 | But he saw Central America as a new stumbling block . |
| 20 | True , there was Crown prince Tupouto'a waiting in the wings , but he spent little time in Tonga and had a reputation as a playboy — a Farouk-like figure given to white suits and expensive lady friends . |
| 21 | He 's supposed to be staying at a children 's home , but he spent last night in police cells after being arrested for the thirtieth time — for breaching bail conditions . |
| 22 | But he sang many roles in a 30-year career in which he rose to principal baritone at London 's Royal Opera House . |
| 23 | He was obliged to attend some party functions and to receive the chief guests along with the hostess , but he received little pleasure from such occasions and rarely attended them outside London . |
| 24 | But he read another significance into their scarcity . |
| 25 | But he pours cold water on the notion of some 1992 explosion of new business in Europe . |
| 26 | In the final Cadwallader struggled to stay in touch with the top class domestic field but he exceeded all expectations by taking more than four seconds off his best time when he ran 3m 44.04s in Saturday 's heats . |
| 27 | But he denies any law of evolution ; the regularity in synchronic linguistics is not a result of evolutionary continuity . |
| 28 | But he commanded general respect as an authoritative voice , in tune with the need for social order , sensitive to the needs of the unions and his own party , but also with a genuine cross-party appeal . |
| 29 | But he angered Welsh MPs by not promising help for families with inadequate private insurance cover or to lift the capping charge on Aberconwy Council , the authority worst hit by the floods . |
| 30 | But he bears primary responsibility for tax and economic policies that lost Labour the election . |