Example sentences of "but [adv] he [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But secretly he spent much of his time and most of his clients ' money living the good life in America and Spain . |
| 2 | But anyway he saw this one stall and he had a look and they had three racks of them for ten ninety nine and then we found some others then , they were they were ten ninety nine but they were as thick as these other ones . |
| 3 | He used to scream even at the idea of fresh air , but now he spends all his time outside in his wheelchair , with Miss Mary and Dickon Sowerby . |
| 4 | Engels re-echoes The German Ideology in showing that far from the State being the repository of justice , it is the repository of exploitation , but here he does this by use of genuine anthropological materials . |
| 5 | But then he murmured half under his breath something to the effect that ‘ the boy had cost him much suffering ’ . |
| 6 | The Development Corporation of Harlow New Town made a flat available , but unfortunately he had little opportunity to make his mark because of recurrent illness and eventually resigned his post in September 1958 . |
| 7 | The rapist could pay a prostitute to satisfy his fantasies but instead he pollutes another human being with his poison body . |
| 8 | But instead he used all his strength to heave the door shut , battling against the onrushing wind as the train continued to hurtle along . |