Example sentences of "but he [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he adored little boys and when my son Mark was born , he became his godfather . ’ |
| 2 | But he led poor Stevenson to his death , and he almost killed me . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Steiner 's mission ended in failure , but he led German soldiers in battle on English soil . |
| 4 | The father did not say a word but he shovelled many sandwiches into his mouth and swatted the occasional fly which landed on his fat body . |
| 5 | The critical promoter of the work of Seurat and his friends was Félix Fénéon , a subtle stylist who varied his methods according to the work he was describing ; he used expository language for Degas , but he dropped logical connection in language , even verbs when discussing Monet 's spontaneous art . |
| 6 | He had often told her that it was a social disadvantage having the sort of wife he could n't take anywhere , but he dropped this line when she started appearing beside him at literary lunches and old school do 's . |
| 7 | He was only a little 'un , but he got one weight over his head all right . |
| 8 | They quashed the murder charge but he got ten years for intent to wound resulting in death , plus , of course , half as much again because there was a firearm involved . ‘ |
| 9 | Mr Cahill said : ‘ There are no plans to sell Rover ’ , but he admitted that defence remained the core of BAe 's business . |
| 10 | But he admitted last night : ‘ We are working on something . |
| 11 | But he felt that position to be untenable . |
| 12 | But he felt sure facts would come , now the basic riddle was solved . |
| 13 | The man below could not have seen the movement , but he felt some shifting of the air above him , or heard , perhaps , if he had a wild beast 's hearing as he had its gait , the mere rustle of a sleeve against the stone . |
| 14 | But he told another women , barren after five years of marriage , that she was a witch . |
| 15 | But he planted this gaol in the middle of Buckingham as a sort of rebuke to the townspeople . |
| 16 | But he said loyalist terrorists ‘ sullied the terms Protestant , unionist , Northern Ireland and British while in reality they are pagans , no friends of Northern Ireland and in the end enemies of all its people . |
| 17 | No , but he said four pound odd 's dear in n it ? |
| 18 | But he said legal challenges were unlikely . |
| 19 | But he said Roman Catholics and Anglicans ‘ have to accept , for the moment , our different ways of reaching decisions ’ . |
| 20 | ( ‘ I pointed out to my boss that we could run the business straight and still pull in the same sort of money , but he said straight money did n't spend right . ’ ) |
| 21 | But he said both men had benefitted from keeping the company alive . |
| 22 | But he said elected representatives would attend the meting to explain the council 's position . |
| 23 | But he said old Crumwallis would never notice . |
| 24 | But he said last night he was confident the convoy would reach Srebrenica early today . |
| 25 | But he had two batting sessions at the indoor nets at Bradford yesterday and was sufficiently satisfied with his progress to announce his comeback . |
| 26 | he did some of the flying himself but he had other pilots . |
| 27 | By the time Billy opened at the Theatre Royal , Drury Lane , Crawford had a standby , Billy Boyle , but he had other worries . |
| 28 | I do n't know who killed him , but he had many enemies in Scotland . |
| 29 | But he had good reasons . |
| 30 | I knew somebody else who could do that , but he had four feet . |