Example sentences of "but he [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have got an accent this 's got one but he sounds more Lancashire than anything . |
| 2 | But he maintains that boxing is not his favourite sport , saying without hesitation : ‘ If my father had had the budget for it when I was young , I would have been doing motor racing . ’ |
| 3 | But he pours cold water on the notion of some 1992 explosion of new business in Europe . |
| 4 | ‘ Attention , a bed for the night as he said , something to do — he 's a bright guy , but he lacks intellectual challenge . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , he 's a funny kind of angel , but he understands wild animals better than anyone . ’ |
| 6 | The sophistication of this turn is indicated in its formal lexicon and its syntactic and semantic complexities ( both visible when he reverses Wittgenstein 's famous statement to produce his own aphorism , " Whereof we can not speak , thereof we are by no means silent " ) but he uses this complexity deliberately to obfuscate the sense of his utterance and to enable a swift escape to the World Cup qualifier . |
| 7 | But he denies murdering Leeds teenager Julie Dart in July , 1991 , kidnapping her , two charges of demanding £140,000 with menaces from Leeds police , and demanding £200,000 with menaces from British Rail . |
| 8 | But he denies any law of evolution ; the regularity in synchronic linguistics is not a result of evolutionary continuity . |
| 9 | But he bears primary responsibility for tax and economic policies that lost Labour the election . |
| 10 | John Smith may of necessity have toured the prawn cocktail circuit of the City but he represents those parts of the UK deeply suspicious of its working . |
| 11 | but he carries considerable clout . |
| 12 | But he knows all kinds of People over there and he 's getting me what I need . |
| 13 | ‘ Nick 's about seven years younger than me but he has tremendous talent . |
| 14 | The man is an unreconstructed fascist chauvinist … but he has great charm . |
| 15 | But he has strong views on the monarchy , which he was quick to express in the House of Commons on the announcement of the Prince and Princess of Wales 's separation . |
| 16 | ‘ Anders is not in that category but he has other things to offer . |
| 17 | But he has sterling qualities , particularly courage and a total indifference to public opinion . |
| 18 | There 's a good place in Ealing — well it 's a chipper really , but he has good steaks at any time you want them . |
| 19 | But he has good cause for fear — his dad was gunned to death in the street there only three years ago . |
| 20 | But he has little hesitation in declaring that his successor as chairman of Esso has done a better job than he was able to achieve . |
| 21 | But he has little power to compel , that is , by his person . |
| 22 | But he has private means , you know . ’ |
| 23 | Mandela requested a judicial commission of inquiry to investigate the source of the violence , telling officials of the Transkei government in Umtata on Sept. 28 : " I can say without questioning the integrity of President de Klerk that he himself is serious about making changes in South Africa , but he has serious problems with his constituency . " |
| 24 | But he has considerable respect for Derry , a side he has encountered on numerous occasions to date during his speel in charge of Down . |
| 25 | Since then he has turned in some useful performances for the under-21 and England B sides but he has some way to go before becoming a player of real international class . |
| 26 | Almost certainly , he has a weak visual memory , and so any teaching should aim to help him to strengthen that ; but he has some difficulty with the auditory side , too . |
| 27 | But he has some news of where she might be , and he continues north in his motor car , still looking for her . |
| 28 | But he has big plans . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's a funny old goat , ’ the pilot said , ‘ but he has more goodness in him than the rest of the city put together . |
| 30 | But he sees such expression as running contrary to the dominant idiom and cultural meaning in which users of the language are socialised and as therefore not what the anthropologist is trying to make sense of . |