Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was born in France , but I knew him in Persia . |
| 2 | But I saw him with his cap full of golden sovereigns and turned on the table and lent them all he 'd got . |
| 3 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 4 | But I secured him by his stump and went on . |
| 5 | I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time . |
| 6 | He wanted to rush round straight away but I asked him to be patient . |
| 7 | But I told him about the telly that it 's a bit beyond redemption . |
| 8 | No , it was a farmer 's , and erm he did n't want to sell it , but I pursued him for nearly a year , and in the end he said that I could erm buy it and erm that 's when the project began . |
| 9 | I w , but I liked him in that one on a Friday night . |
| 10 | He 'd at first said , ‘ wild flowers ’ , but I reminded him of what had happened at Caroline 's wedding . |
| 11 | I went to punch him but I caught him with the crowbar instead . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ New-fangled ’ ideas , the farmer said , but I convinced him in the end . |
| 13 | Yes , I loved him , but I loved him in my Masai self . |
| 14 | But I beat him to it . |
| 15 | ‘ Go on — it will cheer you up ’ but I dismissed him like the rest , saying I was not thirsty , despising the thought of drinking from the same grimy bottle which a rogue had . |
| 16 | In. , Finally , the boy tried to squirm past her like a silverfish but she had him by the hair and was breaking the rifle over his head and shoulders when my father stopped her . |
| 17 | He caught them and tried to hold her still but she fought him like a spitting cat . |
| 18 | but she saw him on the way to work in town , had a bloody great barney with him on the market place on the way to work , just say , she was in there about ten minutes and burst into tears |
| 19 | He tried to kiss her , but she evaded him in a half-angry , half-flirtatious way , so they were in the middle of a clumsy clinch when Lucaroni walked in . |
| 20 | She was n't good at ages , but she judged him to be about twenty-four . |
| 21 | She had not liked him very much but she judged him to be one of those unfortunate men who dislike their neighbours even more than they dislike themselves and as such he was to be pitied , plodding on from day to day among his bingo-playing telly-watching parishioners . |
| 22 | It was too much but she loved him for it and let him kiss her when he came and stood beside her again . |
| 23 | But she provided him with loyalty , sensible advice and a closely shared experience of life for over fifty years . |
| 24 | ’ Bramble began , but she silenced him with a glare from the astonishing blue eyes . |
| 25 | ‘ To buy a player of Kevin 's experience would cost a fortune but we got him for free . |
| 26 | Many aspects of his analysis were similar to those advanced by Blauner , but they led him to an opposite conclusion . |
| 27 | The teenager tried to run away when the youths approached him but they punched him in the face and pushed him to the ground . |
| 28 | But they started him on a new course of treatment yesterday and he 's begun to respond . ’ |
| 29 | It was true that they had all been children when he was taken away , but they remembered him as kind always . |
| 30 | He tried to get away in his wheelchair , but they caught him in the hallway . |