Example sentences of "but he [verb] [to-vb] [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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Her time would come , but he had to choose that time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He wanted to leave now too , but he had to make some kind of contact with the dead man first . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And the second servant does n't do quite as well , he erm but he manages to make five talents out of his one talent . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was true that he had been educated at a public school , but he managed to disguise this handicap very well . |
| 10 | ‘ That Buster 's a naughty boy at times , but he likes to watch All Creatures Great and Small on a Sunday , does n't he , Swire ? ’ |
| 11 | But he refused to give any money at all for Gabriel-Ernest 's memorial . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But he seems to have one problem that I 'm too embarrassed to ask him about . |
| 14 | But he seems to have this antagonism towards the local people . |
| 15 | But he has to wait 12 months to join an NHS waiting list and two more years before he can have the surgery . |
| 16 | Graham did n't mind Slater knowing about Sara — he had introduced them to each other , after all — but he wanted to keep this day private . |
| 17 | he wanted her to come back to him , but he wanted to keep this girl on the go ! |
| 18 | He had no problems in stocking these from the Far East , India or the Cape with help from Dutch merchant-ship captains , but he wanted to obtain those North American novelties which he knew to be flourishing at Chelsea , so in July 1736 Linnaeus came to England with a letter of introduction from Boerhaave to Sir Hans Sloane . |
| 19 | In Marx 's first draft of the plan for Capital there was a section on the State , but he proposed to approach this question from afar , after analysing capitalist economy in the strict sense of the word . |
| 20 | She hoped that he would not find the jam jar too utilitarian , but he appeared to possess few vases . |