Example sentences of "but he [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he continued to insure himself against such social accidents as might reactivate his grief by avoiding the streets of Reine and its inhabitants . |
| 2 | But he continued to serve her mother , being partly responsible for the tragedy of the duchess 's lady-in-waiting , Lady Flora Hastings [ q.v. ] , who died of a tumour while suspected of being pregnant by Conroy . |
| 3 | There he had an official residence , but he continued to run his Whitechapel nursery , with another in London Fields . |
| 4 | Marryat was no ‘ Jolly tarpaulin ’ but he chose to please his readers in the way that best suited his circumstances . |
| 5 | He joined Hampshire in 1970 and a couple of years later the selectors were enquiring after him , but he chose to await his chance with West Indies . |
| 6 | But he got married my sister and lived in house down there and er that 's how I got a job there . |
| 7 | She kept trying to trample them , slam the door , but he kept kicking it back open and sooner or later she 'd have to put a name to her feelings , and she was afraid , so afraid , that the name was love … but it must n't be , she thought savagely ; it ca n't be . |
| 8 | He had my note , but he kept putting it in safe places then forgetting where he 'd put it . |
| 9 | ( Dmitry did n't kill his father but he keeps baring his breast to people about how much he wanted to . ) |
| 10 | We have explained the point at great length to the hon. Member for Kincardine and Deeside , but he keeps making his claim . |
| 11 | She felt the lie was unconvincing , but he seemed to take it at face value . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , yes ; I often wonder how he managed ; he was n't the sort to make friends easily but he seemed to enjoy himself . |
| 13 | Carrie was afraid at first that Albert would despise such a babyish pastime but he seemed to enjoy it as much as Nick did , shouting with laughter when he tripped over bumps in the ice and not wanting to stop , even when she said it was time they were going . |
| 14 | He went in ahead of her and tried the lights ; they flickered once , but he seemed to know what to do because he went inside and Sandy heard him thump something , and then all the lights came on . |
| 15 | Alison noticed the momentary tension , but he seemed to bring it under control pretty quickly . |
| 16 | He was working until the evening of the following day , but he asked to take me out again and I said it would be delightful . |
| 17 | And Les said I ca n't believe this he said , I he said if you 'd have been in business ten years that I could understand but he said to do it your first |
| 18 | As the heating was off it had been cold , but he had comforted himself with the thought that it was not as cold as it was outside where many of the animals were . |
| 19 | Ali Marwash was not a rich man , but he had loved his daughter and had wrapped her in a Kashmir shawl before interring her . |
| 20 | But he had despised her husband from the beginning . |
| 21 | ‘ That job was the adventure , ’ she remembered , but he had deprived her of so much more than just adventure . |
| 22 | He may have constructed his Cabinet a little amiss , but he had constructed his power-base superbly . |
| 23 | It could have been the second , but he had swallowed his pride when they had shown him the room that was allocated him . |
| 24 | She looked at him and felt his pain , but he had shut her out again . |
| 25 | There had been an anonymous telephone call to tell him so , but he had guessed it anyway , mostly because her habit of reversing the responsibility for everything that happened had made her start to behave as though she had herself some gross cause for mistrust . |
| 26 | I had not thought my friends dull , but he had made them seem so . |
| 27 | Ermentrude 's father had originally come from the Worms area , but he had made his career , thanks to imperial favour , in the west . |
| 28 | But he had made it complete with fossils and dinosaur skeletons buried under the earth ; red herrings put there to expose those of little faith . |
| 29 | Innocent had not controlled French aspirations but he had made it clear that he saw himself as the arbiter of Europe and John 's cession of his kingdom in 1213 considerably strengthened the pope 's hand . |
| 30 | He had not told her all he knew , she was sure of that , but he had confirmed her deduction about the provenance of the Durance paintings although he had stressed she could prove nothing . |