Example sentences of "but he [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he meant something other by the word : something more than simple agreement . |
| 2 | I felt him rip the tape off my hands , but he kept my left arm in a hammer lock . |
| 3 | Lee would catch them , he always did , but he kept his own counsel because when Garry got mad he sent him home . |
| 4 | You , you know how I feel , I mean er Rob does a lot of good work but he keeps it all to himself and we 've got ta be bigger than keeping it to ourselves , it 's everybody 's responsibility vocational education from right down from year seven right the way across the board , they 've got ta |
| 5 | The snapping jaws missed , but he felt its far as it swung around and scampered away . |
| 6 | But he told me that , in the eyes of the law , theft is actually a lesser charge than handling stolen goods If there were n't people handling stolen goods then nobody would nick things in the first place . |
| 7 | But he told me one of my stories was a masterpiece , and that one of my poems would move a stone . |
| 8 | Thornton , 32 , was constantly frustrated by Eubank 's weird and unorthodox antics but he had nothing exceptional to throw into the pot . |
| 9 | But he had his good side , too . ’ |
| 10 | Richard Hollison , deputy head of the FBI , could n't quite match Sir John 's tranquil serenity but he had his obvious anger under tight control . |
| 11 | The tall thin man paused on the top step , looking casually up and down the street — too many years on the street having taught him what to look for — but he saw nothing suspicious . |
| 12 | His face was moving a little , twitching by one eye , but he saw them this time . |
| 13 | She could not speak , but he saw her panicked eyes staring from the spaces between his long fingers . |
| 14 | But he knew his own mind , did Gabriel , and persevered so that the holly adorned the bottom edge of the beam like a curving curtain pelmet . |
| 15 | His books still sell nearly four million copies a year , but he wrote his first stories to entertain his children . |
| 16 | He may be a bit ropey at times but he plays his best for us and do n't forget the goals he scored , including one which put paid to the scouse red shite in 1991 . |
| 17 | That was still before people went to chokey for dodgy dealings , but he soured his own patch . |
| 18 | Hare 's sights are set high , but he thinks it best not to listen to those who predict a bright future for him . |
| 19 | Hare 's sights are set high , but he thinks it best not to listen to those who predict a bright future for him . |
| 20 | The mail was uniformly trivial , but he read it all and then stuffed the torn envelopes and their contents into his pockets for disposal elsewhere . |
| 21 | But he wore his horrible home-made blazer until he grew out of it . |
| 22 | He could see that whatever was agitating his friend had pushed him to the limit but he judged it better to let him get it off his chest than keep it bottled up . |
| 23 | But he warns his former coworker that her every move will be scrutinized . |
| 24 | But he touched her slender arm instead , feeling firm brown flesh beneath the loosely flowered silk of her sleeve . |
| 25 | He did not know quite what was implied by all this business of dresses , but he sensed something ugly — and flinched . |
| 26 | But he ate it all the same , Ellie noticed , as she hurried back to her chair . |
| 27 | Er but he followed them all the way back to a flat on th on the on the complex . |
| 28 | Dissatisfied with mainstream Christianity they were impressed by his apparent certainty , but he persuaded his potential British followers with more than just his Biblical knowledge . |
| 29 | But he raised his left hand again , this time to silence me ; took my arm and led me to the edge of the colonnade . |
| 30 | Tony Newton , the Leader of the Commons , said the Government would consider the report but he thought it unlikely it would change its attitude . |