Example sentences of "but he [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he got up the front of the line and he got the job . |
| 2 | But he got down the pit , after you know whe after the War . |
| 3 | But he felt keenly the odium of his position . |
| 4 | But he said later the singer was content to leave the public to form its own conclusions . |
| 5 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
| 6 | Tug found it repulsive , but he had not the energy to resist and he let Doyle lead him upstairs as a father leads a child . |
| 7 | He tried to fight it , but he had not the strength . |
| 8 | Farrel mimicked Lowell 's pedantic voice inside his head , but he had n't the guts to initiate a confrontation . |
| 9 | For the first time in all his journeys he found a room that was completely empty , but he had n't the time to investigate it , or any of the others he entered . |
| 10 | He knew that he could have carried the coffee into the comparative serenity of his study but he had n't the courage to get to his feet . |
| 11 | Leeson had hoped that his imagination had exaggerated the resemblance , but he saw when the girl walked in that it had n't . |
| 12 | But he knew why the moment he entered the old schoolroom , for after allowing him to pass her she closed the door and stood with her back to it , her pale face , now tinged to a deep red , thrust out towards him as she cried , ‘ Think you 're smart , do n't you ? |
| 13 | Sheron 's first shot was blocked but he tucked home the rebound from close range . |
| 14 | But he rolled back the years wearing his old jockeys ' uniform in the Radcliffe Selling Stakes at Nottingham . |
| 15 | Maybe he had a little doubt as he approached the ramp , but he opened up the throttle again and landed on the rear wheel , as planned . ’ |
| 16 | But he has n't the nerve for this kind of thing . |
| 17 | Trainer Frank Berry reckons he is now in the clear but he has n't the form to recommend him . |
| 18 | But he held out the flat of his hand towards her . |
| 19 | But he remembered how the others had watched , not interfering , waiting to see what he made of it , as Peter and Andrew were now . |
| 20 | On his death the people of Clermont elected the comes Genesius , but he turned down the office , because , as a layman , he regarded the appointment as uncanonical . |
| 21 | Even lesser known men were received with open arms and , in some cases , cheque books : when the Rev. J. A. Macfadyen went to America to ‘ supply ’ the pulpit of Brooklyn 's Central Congregational Church he was offered a church in Chicago at the princely stipend of £2,000 — over £60,000 today — but he turned down the offer . |
| 22 | But he gives only the outline of an answer to this question , for he does not say what the criteria are . |