Example sentences of "but he [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rory was grateful not to get the lecture about the IRA men who had lived in foxholes in the soaking bog in the fifties , hunted out into the mountains by the B-men at the end of a long and terrible campaign , but he continued with the trains of thought . |
| 2 | But he woke in the small hours and found her in his arms , just like that first time in the studio at Westfield Manor . |
| 3 | But he got to the final table of the championship again this year . |
| 4 | There was no pain , but he flinched from the contact . |
| 5 | In the case of the wrongful deportation of any asylum seeker , he admitted that he was consulted , but he hides behind the excuse that he did no more than accept civil servants ' advice . |
| 6 | Emmie tried to get hold of him but he fought like the baby wild cat her mother had once been given to tame . |
| 7 | Dexter rather liked it but he knew from the indifferent look on Blanche 's face that she did not : she was very classic in her tastes . |
| 8 | Sometimes she sat on the end of his divan if she could n't sleep and tried to wake him up to talk , but he slept with the heaviness of the very thin , and her weight on the divan made it sag and creak in a way that embarrassed her . |
| 9 | But he wrote of the then almost unthinkable independence of the Ukraine and Baltic countries , of the possibility of a Soviet commonwealth , and concluded that while ‘ Marxist doctrine has delayed the break-up of the Russian Empire it does not possess the power to prevent it . ’ |
| 10 | Walcott admitted that the middle group of professional politicians tended to be Whig or Tory in general , but he insisted on the need to add a Court–Country axis to the traditional frame of reference . |
| 11 | But he sang with the children . |
| 12 | This left Ambegate in front but he weakened up the hill and never-say-die Scudamore forced Vagog up in the last few strides . |
| 13 | The Government have made clear their opposition and abhorrence for the fatwa to which the hon. Gentleman referred , but he differs from the view of his colleagues on the Opposition Front Bench if he wishes to stop trade or perhaps impose an embargo on trade with Iran or , indeed , any other country . |
| 14 | But he relented at the sight of Isabelle smiling and bearing gifts , his Continental dream . |
| 15 | But here 's Rozario Gemmell Black Pearce is up in support but he goes for the long ball in and Hill met it first . |
| 16 | But he goes to the holy one 's mosque . ’ |
| 17 | But he returned to the side in last week 's UEFA Cup match with Torpedo Moscow and his performance against Brighton finally convinced Fergie that the little winger still has a part to play . |
| 18 | But he lingered by the window , inhibiting her from winding it up . |
| 19 | ‘ Colin Todd told me centre half was my position , but he listened to the crowd and made me a scapegoat after a Cup defeat at Aston Villa . |
| 20 | But he stared at the screens as the pictures sharpened into focus . |
| 21 | But he agreed to the deal . |
| 22 | Jess snatched after her skirt , but he disappeared into the crowd . |
| 23 | ‘ All I know is , I saw him , I followed him , but he disappeared into the woods . |
| 24 | ‘ One of the boys was still visible when we arrived but he disappeared beneath the surface . ’ |
| 25 | In Fleming 's time , most bacteriologists would simply have thrown the spoiled culture away , but he looked for the cause . |
| 26 | But he looked beyond the telephone book , and studied pricing and contracts in some detail . |
| 27 | Oh , not in the top flight , but he travels around the world — anywhere golf is played . |
| 28 | What we have to see is that Christ died not just as a self sacrifice not just because of injustice but he died as the atonement , to pay the price , for our sin . |
| 29 | Not just because of not just because certain men at a certain place were sinful and crucified him unjustly not just because of sin but he died for the sin of the world , taking our sin in our place . |
| 30 | In 1922 he became the Labour candidate for the University of London constituency , but he died before the election . |