Example sentences of "but [prep] [adj] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Periodically he returned to his Australian roots , but for long periods he worked in the UK . |
| 2 | For Iranians he was charismatic , but for most foreigners he seemed rather strange . |
| 3 | But for some reason he was unwilling to tell Parry about the stranger in the mist . |
| 4 | He had lived outwith Scotland for only 5 years but during that time he had travelled further by land and had seen a greater number of interesting places than most people do in a lifetime . |
| 5 | Will was writing more slowly now , but during these years he wrote some of his best plays : Othello , Macbeth , and King Lear . |
| 6 | ‘ When the war ended he returned to live in Italy and marry his girlfriend , but after twelve years he deserted his wife and daughter and went back to England . ’ |
| 7 | At the start North Down man Ian Lyle shadowed Rowan but after two miles he lost contact and Albertville 's Paddy Branagh took up the pursuit , moving to within 30 metres of Rowan . |
| 8 | But after 27 days he has travelled 270 miles and on the 28th day he travels the remaining 30 miles and reaches land before he goes to sleep . |
| 9 | Again early in the second half he was just wide , but after 49 minutes he did succeed when not only did Wakefield collapse a scrum but they were also offside . |
| 10 | The following weekend , Elliott went to the Manor to meet Branson and discuss the proposition further , but after some thought he turned it down . |
| 11 | This Leo rejected , but after further negotiations he did suppress the archbishopric of Lichfield , and this was accepted by an English synod at Clofesho in 803 . |
| 12 | With a high sense not only of justice but of dramatic effect he informed the judge that the only courses open to him were ‘ either to resign your post , or inflict on me the severest penalty if you believe that the system and law you are assisting to administer are good for the people ’ . |
| 13 | Logic he could no doubt purvey in abundance , but of true feeling he was entirely bereft . |
| 14 | Towards the end , and no doubt full of beef and beer , they got him on to his feet ; but despite encouraging shouts he was speechless . |
| 15 | Originally , he was on a six-month contract but despite disappointing results he was able to re-negotiate his contract . |
| 16 | But amongst that circle he discovered a man whose claim upon her preceded his own , and to whom she was apparently devoted . |
| 17 | But like all bulldozers he was ponderous and slow to turn . |
| 18 | He might not know much about the Church , but with this terrain he was thoroughly familiar . |
| 19 | With one part of his mind he knew he was getting the benefit of the backlash from an experience in Catherine 's past , but with another part he did n't care about any of that , there was no reality beyond her . |
| 20 | The document is aimed at stimulating international solidarity , not only with regard to the effects of the refugee crisis , but above all tot he causes of the tragedy . |
| 21 | But in recent years he has spent £50,000 of his own money and much time on charitable causes . |
| 22 | A long , lean man with an ascetic face , he looked the celibate monk he had always been , but in private conversation he was unpompous , outgoing , witty . |
| 23 | But in remote Kazakhstan he 's finally spotted the last one on his list . |
| 24 | Until 1892 Townsend 's practice was made up of minor domestic and ecclesiastical work , but in that year he won the competition for the design of the Bishopsgate Institute , the first of the three outstanding public buildings that were to make his reputation . |
| 25 | I need not refer to his history in any more detail up to June 1990 , but in that month he went to a residential school where his mother continued to visit him and in October 1990 he absconded from that school . |
| 26 | It 's only three or four paces , but in that moment he sees Tommy tense his arm at full stretch and turn his head away . |
| 27 | The whole performance had taken no more than a minute , but in that time he 'd succeeded in turning the Chamber 's table into a fish-market gutter . |
| 28 | But in that time he was credited with the discovery of three rarities the spring gentian , the mountain avens and the bog orchid , which was then lost again and only recently rediscovered . |
| 29 | Cardinal Hume is 70 years old , but in that programme he looked at the vocation to the religious life with all the zest of youth . |
| 30 | I managed to keep boys away from him , but in one alley he disappeared . |