Example sentences of "but he [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others . |
| 2 | Her ribcage lifted and her chin tilted up in self-defence to warn him off , but he seemed to interpret that as a provocatively brazen invitation . |
| 3 | Her time would come , but he had to choose that time . |
| 4 | It concerned the plot to overthrow his brother and form a new dictatorship ; but he had discovered another side to the story , a sinister angle that would make international headlines if it were ever made public . |
| 5 | But he had blocked all her attempts to anoint him with love and sympathy . |
| 6 | It took him six hours to make a long , thin rope , but he had lost all sense of time . |
| 7 | The original idea was that Hubert would join after university , but he had to give that up . |
| 8 | I had a vague impression of their father but he had spent most of the time with his head in his hands . |
| 9 | Dippy Martin had not seen anyone but he had spent some time at the top of the lane . |
| 10 | He had not got very much information but he had got all that she could offer , he was sure of that . |
| 11 | One MPG teacher thought that , in theory , job satisfaction would increase if there was greater involvement in making decision , but he had had little experience of this ! |
| 12 | But he had had some valuable help . |
| 13 | He wanted to leave now too , but he had to make some kind of contact with the dead man first . |
| 14 | A few fragments of carrot were still lying about near the spring , but he had left these untouched and was eating the grass not far from the gnarled crabapple tree . |
| 15 | Denis was the kind of man who was rarely taken seriously , especially by his own family , but he had to get these three down to sleep before anything started in the other room . |
| 16 | Over seventy he might be but he had retained all his faculties . |
| 17 | There Tyndale wrote to urge him to avoid any discussion of the Sacraments , but he failed to take this advice and was convicted as a heretic precisely on this question and was burned . |
| 18 | He had n't really believed him but he 'd dug all the same and his Dad had been angry . |
| 19 | But he 'd done this before and then suddenly , by a single comment , Willi would reveal that he had been playing a game all along . |
| 20 | he was like being shy but he 'd had all the side of his fur like shaved , and I thought urgh ! |
| 21 | But he 'd had that last night — or rather , in the small hours of the morning . |
| 22 | But he 'd had more lately . |
| 23 | Slightly younger than me erm , no , but he 'd mentioned that and he said erm |
| 24 | Many artists would only wish to portray Windermere in sunny weather and would turn it into a different place , but he managed to evoke any real day in the Lake District as it were in its right clothes . |
| 25 | It was true that he had been educated at a public school , but he managed to disguise this handicap very well . |
| 26 | But he refused to give any money at all for Gabriel-Ernest 's memorial . |
| 27 | But he did say that , er , it 'll take three weeks before he could and send along . |
| 28 | But he did concede that short-term profits may well be hit as the group invests in trying to grow market share , enter new business sectors , and undertake further restructuring to reduce its cost base . |
| 29 | But he did help most in the with the graveyards in the end and he used to ring the bell in the church . |
| 30 | Their journey from London had taken several days and he was stiff and saddle sore , but he wanted to see more of this great city before finding an inn for the night . |