Example sentences of "but he [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he greeted me by swearing at me , so I went into the hall to find somebody else . |
| 2 | It is some five years since I worked with Mr Edell in his previous incarnation as a lawyer , but he struck me as a man who would do the necessary . |
| 3 | Adorno , we have seen , acknowledges this specificity — indeed , for him it explains the ( unfulfilled ) potential of jazz and the hangovers of ‘ real ’ creativity in some Tin Pan Alley songs ; but he subsumes it into a theory of ‘ false individualization ’ , designed , in his view , to disguise mass cultural production as ‘ art ’ . |
| 4 | But he got his by being murdered . ’ |
| 5 | But he asked them to ‘ see it from a different viewpoint . |
| 6 | He had not seen the kings but he told her of the baby who was born to be King in a nearby village called Bethlehem . |
| 7 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 8 | But he told me of a new home just completed , where Aunt Louise had been offered a place . |
| 9 | But he told them in a straightforward way . |
| 10 | But he said it without hope . |
| 11 | No I thought , cos I , I remember reading erm I think it 's her father who owns one of the bookshops in Woodbridge and he had this book on display , you know he sort of erm advertised it if you like and it 's , it 's properly published and everything but he had it as a a book available in his store and there was an advert in the Anglian about it , and I remember reading that she said er that he said er cos it was his daughter who had the child , that it totally knocked them for six . |
| 12 | He had , of course , known those grandparents whose glamour made Alexandra 's existence so difficult , but he saw them in a light so different from his wife 's that they seemed hardly the same people . |
| 13 | A furlong separated them but he knew her at once . |
| 14 | He was unsure of the exact translation but he knew it to be very , very rude . |
| 15 | But he knew it to be a frequently found trait , for most of the Noble Lords of Tara had long since dispersed and the enchanted Beastblood , once guarded so jealously , had nearly died out . |
| 16 | But he acquired it as an onlooker . |
| 17 | They complied , but he blew his up harder until it outswelled the rest . |
| 18 | Shy and unhappy , she one day went to sleep in the spare room , hoping that he would come in to find her , but he credited her with his own temperament and thought only that she wished to be alone . |
| 19 | But he quieted her with gentle lips , untangled their limbs and they stood up , pressed into each other . |
| 20 | He needed a drink before he spoke to McGann , and Dowd , ever the anticipator , had already mixed him a whisky and soda , but he forsook it for fear it would loosen his tongue . |
| 21 | She tried to embrace him , but he seized her by the arms and shook her till her teeth chattered . |
| 22 | It came apart in his arms , but he bundled it onto the bed . |
| 23 | She was tall for a woman , but he topped her by several inches , forcing her to look up at him . |
| 24 | But he treated me like a little girl ; part of his training , I suppose . ’ |
| 25 | In The New York Times , Vincent Canby thought McQueen was ‘ as all-American as a Rover Boy ’ and Hoffman was ‘ not especially convincing ’ , but he enjoyed it as the sort of ‘ escapist movie we used to go see on Saturday night without even bothering to read the marquee ’ . |
| 26 | The backbone of his work is the new recitative but he uses it with a power quite beyond Peri 's so that it is not merely ‘ expressive ’ but when necessary , as in Orfeo 's lament in Act II , heart-breaking . |
| 27 | She admired his courage in clouting the skinhead but he spoilt it by saying it had been instinctive and now he wished he had n't . |
| 28 | I went to the sergeant and told him this , but he ordered me to be on my way . |
| 29 | Racked by sobs , she tried again to pull away , but he gathered her into his arms , holding her shaking body against his own , his fingers stroking her hair . |
| 30 | It was smooth and round but he carried it like a sack . |