Example sentences of "but he [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was certain he did n't know I was following him , but he led me a pretty dance almost as if he was trying to lose me . |
| 2 | One eveing I dared to stretch out my hand to his plate , but he struck me a sharp blow over the back of my fingers . |
| 3 | He was ever so sorry not to see you but he wished you a merry Christmas . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ No , but he offered me a very good deal . ’ |
| 5 | But he thought it a reasonable request to ask for a route and he took himself away to Tara 's great map room to procure maps for them . |
| 6 | But he calls it a world , and he 's such a good writer that he can make it seem like one . |
| 7 | But he owed me a favour for a little job I 'd done him and I needed somewhere to stash my passport , emergency cash and one or two other goodies . |
| 8 | I 'm afraid Dr. Zimmerman is n't here just now , but he left me a message that someone from the telephone company might call in . |
| 9 | But he gave me a hard time . |
| 10 | The man was perfectly cool , but he gave me a very evil look , which made me feel sick in my stomach . |
| 11 | But he gave me a good smile and a big goodbye when I left him so . |
| 12 | ‘ But he gave me the car … . ’ |
| 13 | I do n't quite know why , but he gave me the impression , without uttering more than a few words , that he had much more than superficial knowledge , and an amusing touch of the sardonic as well . |
| 14 | When he and his brothers left this world , I could not go with him , but he gave me the gift of never growing old . |
| 15 | There was enough dirt on his knees to grow potatoes , and his short trousers obviously belonged to someone at least three years younger , but he gave her a toothless grin , slid back in his seat and picked his nose . |
| 16 | But he gave her a hand and they sat side by side on the hot wood , pouring sea water , steaming . |
| 17 | But he gave her a smouldering glance and said , ‘ This change in the weather could n't have come at a worse time . |
| 18 | She looked at him quickly , but he gave her no chance to reply . |
| 19 | But he gave her no time to explain . |
| 20 | General Robert Schweitzer , who told this story to the congressional lawyers , was a trifle envious that after 58 years of daily Mass and ‘ desperate messages to the Almighty ’ he himself had never been woken up at night ‘ with lights on the wall ’ and a vision of saving Nicaragua ; he was not sure Ms Studeley had either , but he gave her the benefit of the doubt . |
| 21 | A few people were waiting and one of them called out angrily as Joe stepped in ahead of them all , but he gave him a one-second blast of his sub-zero gaze and said , ‘ Police business , ’ and then he turned his back and forgot the man completely . |
| 22 | Police were told and tailed Newall but he gave them the slip and fled from Britain on a yacht he inherited from his parents , a court in Gibraltar heard . |
| 23 | He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there . |
| 24 | One of them , Stuart Surridge , did not live to see the production , which is dedicated to him ; but he gave it a memorable quote when he reflected on his Surrey players of the 1950s , with whom he won five consecutive County Championships : they were a great side , he recalled : ‘ All they wanted was a kick up the arse ! ’ |
| 25 | He claimed the housing market was showing signs of revival but he gave it a prod anyway by raising the threshold on stamp duty from £30,000 to £60,000 , move that will help mainly first-time buyers . |
| 26 | ‘ But he sees me the other way — he spoke of another photograph — he was telling me that … ’ |
| 27 | but he did I a favour at by bringing out er a law that said that they must provide something like this . |
| 28 | I did n't know quite what to answer , but he saved me the trouble . |
| 29 | Artemis attempted a smile to reassure him that she at least was n't going to let him down by crying , but he paid her no attention . |
| 30 | He was kind and respectful as always , but he loved me no more , and Rachel no less . |