Example sentences of "but he [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He failed in three attempts to secure election to the Trades Union Congress 's parliamentary committee , but he represented the vellum binders at the foundation conference of the labour representation committee in February 1900 , and was elected to its executive . |
| 2 | ‘ He must have heard something or picked up a scent but he led the rescuers to a bramble bush and the elderly man was found trapped inside . |
| 3 | But he led the field a merry dance until being overhauled inside the final furlong . |
| 4 | He did not make it obvious , but he led the conversation , changed topics when he thought it needed it , enquired robustly of the lawyer certain things , and more gently of the females , as if to bring out gems of information they had stored in their pretty little heads . |
| 5 | But he formed the opinion , which he never afterwards lost , that the Church must gain its proper freedom from the State in the care for its own way of worship , if necessary by disestablishment , from which he never thereafter shrank . |
| 6 | But he emphasised the need for good education . |
| 7 | For Shakhnazarov , socialism would continue as long as mankind pursued a better world ; but he rejected the idea of ‘ stages ’ of human history and the primacy of economic factors and saw communism itself as a ‘ hypothesis ’ or even a ‘ dream ’ . |
| 8 | They agreed to pay him thirty three thousand pounds but he rejected the offer . |
| 9 | He believed that the study of nature was conducive to this , but he rejected the connection of this ideal with atheism . |
| 10 | The Minister said that the peak age for offending has risen to 18 from 15 , but he chose the end of the two-year period that I would describe as covering the most vulnerable young people on whom the Government have picked in the past 12 years . |
| 11 | But he got the ball near the left edge of the green , flicked it confidently over the bunker to about four feet and holed out with ease . |
| 12 | When he introduced me to her , just before the wedding , he sort of … well , he did n't come out and say it , but he got the message over that he did n't want her to know I was gay . |
| 13 | He was trying to explain , but he got the impression he was losing out now . |
| 14 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |
| 15 | It was agony , but he got the words out . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes — that was unexpected — but he got the reaction he wanted , I think — the screams of adoration from his fans . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Do you think they 'll mix ? ’ worried Larry , and she thought he meant the food but he meant the people . |
| 18 | He had other tasks he could profitably have got on with , but he felt the need to stay . |
| 19 | Nothing could wash away the beastliness of that house or the horror of the sight of Phyllis Henley 's body , but he felt the need to try . |
| 20 | He could n't see the torch being flashed underneath and through the windows , but he felt the car sway as one of the coppers tugged at the driver s handle and the boot . |
| 21 | But he told the court it was quite the opposite . |
| 22 | But he told the judge : ‘ Her object has always been to secure the payment not just for herself but the little boy George who is a few months old . |
| 23 | But he told the bishop at a private interview that he was depressed about preaching , he felt the people to be so remote from the practice of religion . |
| 24 | But he said the union was concerned at the delay in setting up a Staff Commission . |
| 25 | But he said the machine did not mean a return to the days of the mid-1980s when his company made huge profits from new computer equipment . |
| 26 | But he said the problem was caused by a staff shortage : |
| 27 | But he said the Government bore some responsibility for what had happened . |
| 28 | But he said the Government was unlikely to co-operate . |
| 29 | But he said the incidents were not being linked at this stage and he could not say the same people were responsible for each theft . |
| 30 | But he said the procedure involved in dismissing Mrs Taylor had been ‘ virtually non-existent ’ . |