Example sentences of "but [prep] [adj] [noun pl] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Periodically he returned to his Australian roots , but for long periods he worked in the UK . |
| 2 | For Iranians he was charismatic , but for most foreigners he seemed rather strange . |
| 3 | Will was writing more slowly now , but during these years he wrote some of his best plays : Othello , Macbeth , and King Lear . |
| 4 | ‘ When the war ended he returned to live in Italy and marry his girlfriend , but after twelve years he deserted his wife and daughter and went back to England . ’ |
| 5 | At the start North Down man Ian Lyle shadowed Rowan but after two miles he lost contact and Albertville 's Paddy Branagh took up the pursuit , moving to within 30 metres of Rowan . |
| 6 | But after 27 days he has travelled 270 miles and on the 28th day he travels the remaining 30 miles and reaches land before he goes to sleep . |
| 7 | Again early in the second half he was just wide , but after 49 minutes he did succeed when not only did Wakefield collapse a scrum but they were also offside . |
| 8 | This Leo rejected , but after further negotiations he did suppress the archbishopric of Lichfield , and this was accepted by an English synod at Clofesho in 803 . |
| 9 | Towards the end , and no doubt full of beef and beer , they got him on to his feet ; but despite encouraging shouts he was speechless . |
| 10 | Originally , he was on a six-month contract but despite disappointing results he was able to re-negotiate his contract . |
| 11 | But like all bulldozers he was ponderous and slow to turn . |
| 12 | But in recent years he has spent £50,000 of his own money and much time on charitable causes . |
| 13 | But in all cases he has been stopped by diocesan authorities as the centres are outside his parish . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He never played any more tricks on me but in other ways he progressed into more serious misdemeanours . |
| 16 | Always excellent on that yes , he 's a toad in some ways but in other ways he 's very good . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Merceron was not reappointed as a justice of the peace , but in other respects he was as much in control ( either directly or through his brother-in-law , who became vestry clerk ) as he had been before 1809 . |
| 19 | The origins of Osiris are shrouded in mystery but in early times he was a fertility god , whose death and rebirth were connected with the cycle of the agricultural year . |
| 20 | He is likely to be very bright and to find learning easy but in many cases he will be coached and encouraged by a parent ( usually the father ) in that one direction so that he becomes a prodigy or a ‘ genius ’ at mathematics . |
| 21 | Connolly 's observation is often taken to confirm him as a better judge of literature than of politics , but in many ways he was remarkably prescient : Home was indeed ‘ honourably ineligible ’ for the new age which was dawning in the Tory party . |
| 22 | The stock editor generally concentrated on stock revision and supervision of withdrawals , but in some authorities he or she also played a large part in the selection of new books . |
| 23 | But in some respects he seems to be left over from a previous age . |
| 24 | If in the year in which the benefit is given to the taxpayer the amount of the relevant income is less than the amount of the benefit then the individual is only taxed on the amount of the relevant income but in subsequent years he can be further charged if there is further relevant income but never in excess of the amount of the benefit ( s740(2) ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It was a great comfort to have him here , but in three days he went back to San Francisco . |
| 27 | In particular circumstances a director may owe a duty directly to shareholders ; that duty will not derive from his status as a director but from particular responsibilities he has voluntarily taken on . |
| 28 | She kept her hand on the pilot 's yoke and followed through on his movements in case of trouble , but without any qualms he greased the Seneca on to the eleven-thousand-foot Runway 27 at Goose Bay . |
| 29 | But on second thoughts he erases the remark , and replaces it with a slight smile . |
| 30 | But on second thoughts he said , ‘ Where we felt a chance existed of a pass if the questions ‘ fell out well ’ . ’ |