Example sentences of "but he [vb -s] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he discounts the German raid theory and thinks there was a British chemical warfare experiment which went wrong . |
| 2 | Mr Lilley says his changes would save about £180m in 1995–96 but he tells the Prime Minister that Mr Portillo wants him to go further in reducing spending . |
| 3 | if property is equalized then the economy will so he uses some sort of incentive argument here and maybe some sort of undertones here that inequalities are necessary to make the worse off better off than they would have been without them , but he thinks the uneducated poor may well be too stupid |
| 4 | But he lacks the minimal ontological ballast to call himself bored . |
| 5 | But he rejects the popular belief that information about the city 's blitz was suppressed to avoid damaging civilian morale . |
| 6 | Whether Hastings is invited to take on the role of Scottish captain is for the future , but he acknowledges the good fortune he has enjoyed in playing under such inspiring leadership : ‘ You only need to look at the names of players who have captained Scotland to be aware of the tremendous honour it represents . |
| 7 | Moscato , the son of an immigrant from Calabria , was born in Paris in July 1967 , but he retains the hard-bitten philosophy of his peasant forebears ; ‘ Men and boys are aggressive ’ , says Moscato . |
| 8 | ‘ But he likes the long school holidays ! ’ said Tony . |
| 9 | There 's nothing wrong with them as such but he says the real satisfaction is n't to be found in them , it 's within you . |
| 10 | He has a long way to go but he has the right attitude . ’ |
| 11 | He is for me the epitome of the Italian style at its best — he is Spanish , of course , but he has the true Italian style . |
| 12 | Today 's match did n't reflect his past glories , he scored just 12 , but he has the whole season to make up for it . |
| 13 | Yee … e … es , Melvin 's annoyingly adenoidal but he has the Common Touch . |
| 14 | It is a pity that Michael Coe 's essay on Maya hieroglyphs is not illustrated , but he makes the interesting point that vessels appear to be labelled much as they were in the classical world of the Mediterranean . |
| 15 | For him , education comes first , but he welcomes the new atmosphere of access to information about schools which means that Glenlola 's achievements are public knowledge . |
| 16 | Not only does Nithard say in which vernacular languages the two kings addressed their men ( though he records the addresses in Latin ) , but he gives the ensuing oaths in vernacular texts that are among the earliest examples of Old High German and Old French . |
| 17 | But he cautions the prosperous townie newcomer that money and ambition will count for nothing : ‘ You must wait patiently for acceptance into the village , and learn to share the atavistic values of the region . ’ |
| 18 | But he starts the Premier League campaign in better shape than three of his star internationals — Rob Jones , Jan Molby and John Barnes — who are all out crocked . |