Example sentences of "but he was [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is my oldest friend , and it was his wedding , but he was looking mogadonic with self-satisfaction , so I purloined the camera and announced that what the wedding album needed were a few art shots . |
| 2 | But he was looking worried . |
| 3 | ‘ We could share the car , it would be cheaper , ’ he said , but he was looking doubtful now . |
| 4 | He moved around France quite a lot , and not only was he a soldier , but he was writing comic operas and operas , and musicals and so on , and some of his work was pro produced and performed at the Opera Comic , in in France . |
| 5 | Graham Townsend was alone in his shop at three fifteen this afternoon … details of what happened are sketchy … but he was stabbed several times in the chest by one of three youths who were trying to steal jewellery … they ran off … and Mr Townsend called an ambulance … a neighbour came to his aid . |
| 6 | He had shouted that he was a reporter but he was struck several blows on the head and shoved into the police tender . |
| 7 | Jean-Philippe Ruggia has yet to scrape his elbows on a 500 but he was getting close at Eastern Creek . |
| 8 | It would be equally grave if it had been a burglary charge but he was facing one of the most serious allegations you could make . |
| 9 | But he was saved 12 hours later by fell rescuers who started a search after they found the man 's abandoned car . |
| 10 | Chambers added a penalty goal for Banbridge after 15 minutes but Bangor were now well in control and Jeffrey McMaster almost got his name on the score sheet following a run down the left wing but he was stopped short and hooker Darryl Flanagan was up quickly for the try which Strutt converted . |
| 11 | But in 1925 he did overthrow the Cadgers. he had considered creating a republic , but he was persuaded many of the leading clergy that the monarchy should be preserved . |
| 12 | But he was taken last month to Bill Wightman 's gallops on the lovely downland on which the great Halloween was trained . |
| 13 | Yes , but he was doing that a second ago . |
| 14 | Sharpe said White had done all the punching but he was found guilty and fined £100 , ordered to pay £50 compensation , with £138 costs . |
| 15 | Helen gladly confirmed that not only was Charlie a little star at our school but he was illuminating other schools too , especially girls ' schools . |
| 16 | But he was hurt alright . |
| 17 | Jerome Leyraud , a French worker for the relief agency Médécins du Monde , was kidnapped in West Beirut only hours after McCarthy 's release on Aug. 8 , apparently by a radical Shia faction opposed to the release of hostages , but he was released unharmed at dawn on Aug. 11 . |
| 18 | yeah flares are us , Peter Richardson but he was playing this like I ca n't remember who it was , s early seventies seventy one seventy two kind of like detective yeah and they say whoa how the bloody hell do you solve crimes ? |
| 19 | He 'd driven eight hours that day , but he was feeling good . |
| 20 | He was aware of her , but he was envisaging greater battles still . |