Example sentences of "but [adv] he [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was fear that locked his tongue , but mercifully he mistook it for pride , so its bitterness did not poison him . |
| 2 | And when you think of a man earning about at the most two pounds ten shillings a week , one and sixpence was quite a sizable amount out of it , but eventually he paid it all off . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , but perhaps he thought I might meet some wealthy man who would instantly fall in love with me and so relieve him of some of the responsibility , ’ she retorted , too angry to even think what she was saying , and then gave a derisive smile when she saw that he was half tempted to believe it . |
| 4 | For Adrian Hop there 's nothing that can ease the pain of the loss of his daughter but perhaps he says she wo n't have died in vain . |
| 5 | But perhaps he preferred it to a haunted house , because , as he saw it , that would require metaphysics as well . |
| 6 | I did n't have much faith in him when I first spoke to him , but apparently he told her to stand on her own two feet . |
| 7 | She tensed , preparing to struggle , but purposefully he turned her to face him and before she had chance to utter one single protest he cupped her face in his strong hands and brought his lips down on hers , silencing anything she might have been about to say . |
| 8 | She had often tired him with her chatter , with her bursts of personal revelations , ‘ Today I feel this — yesterday I felt that , ’ but suddenly he wished she would talk to him . |
| 9 | Or perhaps no one can understand anyone : each blackbird believes that he has put into his whistle a meaning fundamental for him , but only he understands it ; the other gives him a reply that had no connection with what he said ; it is a dialogue between the deaf , a conversation without head or tail . |
| 10 | Oliver 's sharp sensitive features and figure adapted well to Sam Weller , but tonight he wished he 'd chosen anything rather than the trial scene from The Pickwick Papers to read . |
| 11 | But tonight he said he believed he 'd been punished enough . |
| 12 | Clive spilled some of the powder as he heaped it in the spoon , and could not hold it steady over his lighter flame , but finally he got it liquefied . |
| 13 | But yesterday he said he did not have the power to pass the sentence . |
| 14 | But yesterday he announced he was calling it a day . |
| 15 | On Wednesday he devalued it but yesterday he pretended he had n't . |
| 16 | No-one was ever able to locate the elusive and possibly mythical teenager who supposedly became pregnant in Mr Moore 's constituency merely to jump the housing queue , but still he knew it was a serious issue . |
| 17 | But still he says he would not be married or sober without the incident . |
| 18 | The endearment eased the expression of pain on his face a little , but still he held me and still he searched my eyes for something I knew was n't there . |
| 19 | Gradually the tears stopped , but still he held her , one hand warm against the ridge of her spine , the other gentle as it stroked the silky length of her hair . |
| 20 | But later he stigmatised them as ‘ the social scum , the passively rotting mass thrown off by the lower layers of the old society . ’ |
| 21 | And he listened , he would n't really say what he had been doing , but later he showed me some of the things he 'd done in the Hebrides . |
| 22 | It was a little Mini van that he ran around in saying it was for the band but really he had it because he thought it was ‘ a good shagging mobile ’ with just enough space in the back for ‘ entertaining ’ . |
| 23 | But really he knew it was only because he was n't Jewish . |
| 24 | Not only had he spotted excessive muscular tension throughout his body , but now he thought he knew how to correct it . |
| 25 | At first he thought an adult must have caused them but now he thought she could have been dropped by a child . |
| 26 | He had heard that Newgate was a hell-hole but now he experienced it first hand and understood why some prisoners went quickly insane . |
| 27 | He had been blind to it before , but now he saw it clearly . |
| 28 | The idea of its hurting or not hurting had n't occurred to me before , but now he mentioned it , it did seem preferable that it should n't . |
| 29 | He says that at first he wanted to kill those responsible , but now he realises they 'll suffer enough by losing their freedom . |
| 30 | Sherlock Holmes was listening with his eyes closed , but now he opened them and looked at Helen Stoner . |