Example sentences of "but [conj] he [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But where he did recognise the private sector he merely saw conflict and not the contradictory unity . |
| 2 | In that case it was held that a journalist lacked standing for an order ( of mandamus ) that the chair of the justices should reveal the names of the magistrates who had heard a particular case , but that he did have standing for a declaration that a policy of not disclosing the names of justices who heard certain types of cases was contrary to the public interest and unlawful . |
| 3 | What really matters is not how the horse won , but that he did win , and that in doing so he ended his racecourse career displaying that sparkling but short-lived turn of foot for which he will long be remembered . |
| 4 | This could be a trick to save his skin , he thought , but if he does know something and he dies without telling it … . |
| 5 | Chapman may have been seeking to ease the pressure on his players , but if he did entertain hopes of the Double , they were dashed when James injured a knee at Upton Park over Easter . |
| 6 | But if he did encounter that God , he thought , his dearest wish would be to spit in his face . |
| 7 | But if he did say it , then he 's a fucking liar . ’ |
| 8 | He looks right David Lawrence I must say and that was a very , very quick delivery and getting back to your other point , that slips coming forward going back , it 's just every now and again that it does n't come out right from David Lawrence , it goes down comparatively slowly , but when he does get it right , it really flies through to slips . |
| 9 | But when he does resume them , when the time comes for him to make his next leap , the suggestions made in the course of this affair of his fiction fatigue and literal turn — suggestions which receive both rebuttal and support from within the shape-changing dialectic represented by The Counterlife — will not deserve to be forgotten . |
| 10 | But when he did appear a suffocating shame kept her rooted to the spot . |
| 11 | But when he did speak at last , his words were a chilling disappointment . |
| 12 | Erm he started his life er in Vietnam in the violence of Vietnam , and had therefore a lot of violence in his early life , which I think really stayed with him , but when he did join the Army , he was very proud to be doing so , and very proud to be wanting to be part of Britain and serving Britain in whatever way he could . |
| 13 | But when he did say yes I 'll have that one and so on and that |
| 14 | My father did n't know that because he was hardly ever around but when he did put in an appearance , the aunt behaved differently . ’ |