Example sentences of "but he [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah said sarcastically , but he dropped on one knee and put his hand on his heart . |
| 2 | No I wished I 'd I probably would have er overcome come that actually now by going back there but he got over that |
| 3 | Leith closed the door with an angry thud , then opened her mouth to let fly — but he got in first . |
| 4 | He was possessed of a calm , reasoned courage in the face of a real danger , but he lived in constant fear of dangers which existed in his brain only " . |
| 5 | and er when he got there Je , er er erm , Julian and I were loading about a ton of turf into my van and I was gon na take it to Caffer Cliss but he said for fifteen quid I 'll take that , I 'll take that away for you . |
| 6 | Well yeah but he said without this card he ca n't get no money , cos he 's used what money he had to pay off the card . |
| 7 | But he saw through this . ’ |
| 8 | I accept that it was not mandatory upon the judge to require that the mother be given notice of the foster mother 's application , but he knew in general terms from the evidence before him that the mother had maintained an active interest in the children and that she was unhappy about the children 's placement with the foster mother . |
| 9 | He liked her , you could n't help but like her , but he wished in this moment it was in him to more than like her . |
| 10 | Stevan 's son , Ivan Crnojević , known as Ivan the Black , was forced to leave his country in 1475 , but he returned in 1481 to recover territory lost to the Turks . |
| 11 | But he looked in confident form with a flowing 66 off 120 balls with 11 fours as Australia reached 263 for four after choosing to bat . |
| 12 | But he reneged on that promise and said he would wait for a message from God . |
| 13 | In September 1951 King George underwent an operation for cancer , but he died on 6th . |
| 14 | Edward no doubt hoped that part of the Clare inheritance and a substantial Irish patrimony would thus provide for Clarence and his heirs , but he died aged thirty in 1368 , leaving as the only child of his marriage a daughter , Philippa . |
| 15 | A cousin , William Thorold , inherited Sedgebrook , but he died within four years and his son Anthony also died soon afterwards . |
| 16 | Henry Dawson , the painter , came to Chiswick in 1863 , and occupied ‘ The Cedars ’ in Burlington Lane , but he died in 1878 . |
| 17 | Matthieu was also responsible for drawing up a plan of the New Town ( see p. 138 ) but he died in 1352 before completing more than four chapels in the cathedral choir . |
| 18 | Various means were employed to enrage the bull and G. H. Burton says : ‘ Hats were thrown at him , and frequently a hogshead [ a large barrel ] with the ends knocked out was brought , wherein a man placed himself , and , by rolling it to the bull , provoked him to toss it ; but he tossed in vain , the occupant being too well trained to be easily dislodged . ’ |
| 19 | The sheriff of Lincoln was sent to Stamford , but he met with considerable resistance , and Peck , quoting John Selden , suggests the king himself came to the town because of the students ' stubbornness . |
| 20 | Epicurus did , indeed , place supreme value on ‘ pleasure ’ ; but he thought of this as the calm tranquillity and freedom from anxiety which would be achieved by realizing that there is no life after death , and that we are not subject to outside divine influences . |
| 21 | The War Requiem was not exactly what he would have chosen but he accepted with feigned enthusiasm . |
| 22 | He had turned to the door , but he paused with one hand on the handle , and without turning round he said , ‘ No , I have n't . ’ |
| 23 | He not only prophesied , but he became in some unspecified sense ‘ a different man ’ ( I Sam . |
| 24 | Lynagh missed half-a-dozen kicks at goal but he succeeded with one conversion and five penalties . |
| 25 | He had been accused of clinging to Office , but he appealed to all those present to say whether such a charge was justifiable . |
| 26 | He never lost his ability to fire others with a passion for great painting of the past , but he began to weary of the College and was often found with his students , not in the studios , but in the nearby pub , the Hoop and Toy . |
| 27 | But he brightened at these words of encouragement , for their kindly tone more than their meaning . |
| 28 | His harmonic conception , founded on the example of Clifford Brown and Freddie Hubbard , was unalloyed bop , and as such derivative , but he played with great facility and imagination within those boundaries , and never faltered in his articulation , however fast the tempo or complex the harmonic sequence . |
| 29 | But he hoped in vain . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been there , ’ she said , but he rode over that , bent on ignoring his unreasonable jealousy that she had gone with anyone else . |