Example sentences of "but he [verb] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know how Ian Cromb got it , but he got this great big blimmin' pipe and went along to Dad and said ‘ How about a fill , Dad ? ’ . |
| 2 | twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful . |
| 3 | But he lived another seven years and continued working to the end . |
| 4 | But he withstood some solid blows and finally saw off Biggs with a right to the temple as the bell sounded to end the seventh round . |
| 5 | No but he said two hundred and twenty minimum wage . |
| 6 | But he had all these nudy pictures . |
| 7 | But he had other strange ideas . |
| 8 | Oliver was disappointed at the disappearance of the picture , since he liked the woman 's face , but he had many other things to think about now . |
| 9 | He had a few enemies amongst the more militant dockers but he had many loyal friends too , and many had told Carrie that they would follow him without question . |
| 10 | I wondered if my master knew something about my tryst with Mathilda but he had that distant , innocent expression . |
| 11 | There was something mysterious about him and she wanted to ask so many questions , but he had that locked-in look , so that even if she risked Salt 's caustic tongue and asked outright about how he 'd come to be a slave , what it was like in Jamaica , if Africa was full of cannibals and if he 'd eaten people , she 'd probably get no more than a few shrugs for answers . |
| 12 | Eisenhower quickly learned that political life was considerably less orderly than that of the army ; but he had one great asset — enormous personal popularity . |
| 13 | All the cards seemed to be stacked against Aurangzeb , but he had one key advantage : the support of his sister Roshanara . |
| 14 | But he had more idealistic leanings . |
| 15 | A proud , often sarcastic , hypercritical man , he was of a handsome and impressive bearing , scrupulous in appearance , but he had few close friends . |
| 16 | Huy could not guess by what means Reni had saved himself and his family from the debacle that followed Akhenaten 's fall ; but he knew many good men whose ruin had been the price the scribe had paid to be sitting here now , and the thought tempered his sympathy . |
| 17 | He was a great Wotan and Hans Sachs of his time , but he assumed many more characters , as this disc sketches in , by means of what can only be called ‘ random ’ arias . |
| 18 | Christopher did not give details of the US aid programme , but he offered some general ideas . |
| 19 | There was little light in the room but he wore wrap-around dark glasses . |
| 20 | It was Arthur Holmes who first suggested that mantle convection currents might be responsible for continental movements , but he lacked any direct geophysical data that might have supported his views . |
| 21 | But he likes that little one . |
| 22 | He was granted his request , but he walked another 40 versts to the uezd party committee to see that the promise was kept . |
| 23 | He 's tried direct flights and so on but he thought four hundred pounds , four hundred and fifty was a bit much although he 'll get the villa so cheaply . |
| 24 | At 5ft 10½ inches and 13 stone he was big for a winger but he made 29 Southern League appearances for us that season out of a maximum of 38 , and scored two valuable goals at Cardiff ( where we won 2–1 ) and at Swindon ( where we won 2–0 ) . |
| 25 | This last statement should be noticed — he disliked assemblies and places where speeches were made at length and he did not enjoy being a chairman — but he made this single exception , the Convocation of York ; he always gave a presidential address , about which he took much trouble . |
| 26 | In a period when ballooning was an activity only for itinerant showmen , any interest in flying invited ridicule , but he made several unsuccessful attempts to form a society to encourage aeronautical developments . |
| 27 | Quinn 's line of thought can be traced back to earlier works such as those of Lindblom ( 1959 ) and Wrapp ( 1967 ) , but he took these general ideas and turned them into a framework for observing organization behaviour and then into practical recommendations for the chief executive who is responsible for strategic change . |
| 28 | So , I mean these are the supporters that they , they 've got to sort of focus on erm even i he does say that some of the erm er leaders of the associations are n't actually up to scratch but he says eighty five percent of them are and it would be wrong to attack or to arrest , you know , the other fifteen percent and it 's got to come from their own discipline of the association , you let the movement grow together , do n't try and er become er , you know , resisting forces because er these are the people who we 've got to erm s stay with and to look after , to harness erm to work for and er so that 's basically , is his conclusion . |
| 29 | The Home Secretary rejected any suggestion that the methods authorized for interrogation contained any element of cruelty but he appointed three Privy Councillors to consider those methods . |
| 30 | He had seen her fall with his own eyes but he doubted any other witness would have disagreed with the description . |