Example sentences of "but he [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wickenden , as purchasing director , is naturally reticent about details , but he led me to believe that smuggling nuts out of Turkey was an important activity , and that everyone except presumably the government , was satisfied with this arrangement . |
| 2 | But he got me started ; the curiosity . ’ |
| 3 | Erm but he got he got sidetracked by this guy , and they were talking and he he mentioned a photograph , and he got in like you know . |
| 4 | The wig he finally chose needed modification by a barber ; but he got it done , put on a pair of folding spectacles he carried in his briefcase , and had the satisfaction of astonishing his colleagues when he walked back into the hotel . |
| 5 | It took him a little while , but he got it fixed in the end , then held out his dummy hand for the gun . |
| 6 | ‘ She will start training for Wimbledon this weekend , ’ added her agent , but he admitted her playing in the year 's third Grand Slam tournament was ‘ not a certainty ’ . |
| 7 | But he admitted he had n't seen the pictures before firing Mr Hughes from his £22,000-a-year job with office equipment suppliers Fellowes . |
| 8 | Everyone knew about Billy 's woman , but he kept her hidden and it was supposed she must be married . |
| 9 | Robyn tried to pull away , to shrug Luke 's hand from her arm , but he kept her imprisoned with a firm and uncompromising grip . |
| 10 | Evans ' 100 inch fixed gear was too small for him on the way out , but he kept it turning on the harder return leg to edge ahead of the Phoenix rider repeating his eight second win over him at Newtownards last week . |
| 11 | Evans ' 100 inch fixed gear was too small for him on the way out , but he kept it turning on the harder return leg to edge ahead of the Phoenix rider repeating his eight second win over him at Newtownards last week . |
| 12 | Ooh he kept , but he kept I 'd even worked out my train to , from Ealing down |
| 13 | For example , if the soft sell chap fails to wheedle his client into buying , his partner can ring him up and say : " My colleague 's at an important meeting , but he asked me to call you about this stock . |
| 14 | ‘ But he asked me to marry him , ’ she said feebly . |
| 15 | If you want to know what that actually means see Dr but he asked me to read it out . |
| 16 | But he asked her to run away to Brazil with him ! ’ |
| 17 | Mr Kishen prudently praised his royal rival , but he felt her appeal would be limited to Deeg and other rural areas where admiration for the ex-ruling family remains strong . |
| 18 | But he felt he had proved himself a man , at twenty-three , and , as the returning warrior , had a belief that there would be no parental opposition . |
| 19 | He might still only be a juvenile who had never flown freely on the wind but he felt he had done nothing to warrant the abuse and fury of an eagle whose name he did not even know . |
| 20 | It was unnecessary , but he felt he had to do something . |
| 21 | He was unhappy but he felt he had at last sorted his life out . |
| 22 | But he told her to stop grumbling and enjoy herself , and she had to admit that the spring lamb with mint sauce was very tasty . |
| 23 | But he told me to put it on |
| 24 | ‘ We checked his clothes for bloodstains … there were n't many but he told me to wash his shirt and handkerchief while he had a shower . |
| 25 | But he told me to think upon it and he would come back for an answer . ’ |
| 26 | But he said they went back up after a picture request from the Bootle Times , and were not removed again till the next day . |
| 27 | But he said they train every Sunday . |
| 28 | But he said they 've just I mean this year the whole orchard . |
| 29 | yes , it was in a bloody scrap yard and this Jack come to me we had he had mentioned it before but he said we said we 're not bothered , you know , he wo n't er that was in there . |
| 30 | ‘ He could have blamed this and that but he said we deserved it . |