Example sentences of "but he [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rory was grateful not to get the lecture about the IRA men who had lived in foxholes in the soaking bog in the fifties , hunted out into the mountains by the B-men at the end of a long and terrible campaign , but he continued with the trains of thought . |
| 2 | But he woke in the small hours and found her in his arms , just like that first time in the studio at Westfield Manor . |
| 3 | But he got to the final table of the championship again this year . |
| 4 | And he says , but he got like a crack on the side of his head and his hear |
| 5 | There was no pain , but he flinched from the contact . |
| 6 | Emmie tried to get hold of him but he fought like the baby wild cat her mother had once been given to tame . |
| 7 | But he admitted to a great sense of satisfaction at having been in the job at a time when the world had ‘ seen the most rapid political changes in the past 50 years ’ , from the end of the Cold War to the dismemberment of the Soviet Union , and the appointment of former POCs like Vaclav Havel to become heads of state . |
| 8 | But he admitted with a grin : ‘ If that was a trial run for Sunday I would n't have minded a bit more notice ! |
| 9 | I 'd met Laura 's husband only for a minute or two , but he seemed like a regular guy . |
| 10 | He looked willowy enough , but he felt like a rock . |
| 11 | Do n't think he 'd actually taken them but he had as a |
| 12 | He would probably die in the attempt , but he knew of no one else capable of completing the task . |
| 13 | Dexter rather liked it but he knew from the indifferent look on Blanche 's face that she did not : she was very classic in her tastes . |
| 14 | Sometimes she sat on the end of his divan if she could n't sleep and tried to wake him up to talk , but he slept with the heaviness of the very thin , and her weight on the divan made it sag and creak in a way that embarrassed her . |
| 15 | At the end of every day his back was tired and his legs hurt , but he slept like a baby . |
| 16 | But he wrote of the then almost unthinkable independence of the Ukraine and Baltic countries , of the possibility of a Soviet commonwealth , and concluded that while ‘ Marxist doctrine has delayed the break-up of the Russian Empire it does not possess the power to prevent it . ’ |
| 17 | But he wrote like a sceptic captured and moved against his will . |
| 18 | We 'd discussed taking a 1-iron , but he insisted on a 3-wood and , although he got a bad bounce , put it in the sand and took a bogey . |
| 19 | Walcott admitted that the middle group of professional politicians tended to be Whig or Tory in general , but he insisted on the need to add a Court–Country axis to the traditional frame of reference . |
| 20 | But he sang with the children . |
| 21 | She greeted him warmly but he responded with a perfunctory nod and immediately got up to leave . |
| 22 | This left Ambegate in front but he weakened up the hill and never-say-die Scudamore forced Vagog up in the last few strides . |
| 23 | But he relented at the sight of Isabelle smiling and bearing gifts , his Continental dream . |
| 24 | But he returned to the side in last week 's UEFA Cup match with Torpedo Moscow and his performance against Brighton finally convinced Fergie that the little winger still has a part to play . |
| 25 | But he lingered by the window , inhibiting her from winding it up . |
| 26 | ‘ Colin Todd told me centre half was my position , but he listened to the crowd and made me a scapegoat after a Cup defeat at Aston Villa . |
| 27 | ‘ He was n't too enthralled at first but he listened after a while and I 've left him thinking about it . |
| 28 | But he dreamed of a free Namibia , and asked the conference to send Swapo a message of solidarity and support for a massive victory in a free Namibian election . |
| 29 | But he stared at the screens as the pictures sharpened into focus . |
| 30 | But he agreed to the deal . |