Example sentences of "but he [verb] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt him rip the tape off my hands , but he kept my left arm in a hammer lock . |
| 2 | Lee would catch them , he always did , but he kept his own counsel because when Garry got mad he sent him home . |
| 3 | The snapping jaws missed , but he felt its far as it swung around and scampered away . |
| 4 | But he had his good side , too . ’ |
| 5 | Richard Hollison , deputy head of the FBI , could n't quite match Sir John 's tranquil serenity but he had his obvious anger under tight control . |
| 6 | She could not speak , but he saw her panicked eyes staring from the spaces between his long fingers . |
| 7 | But he knew his own mind , did Gabriel , and persevered so that the holly adorned the bottom edge of the beam like a curving curtain pelmet . |
| 8 | His books still sell nearly four million copies a year , but he wrote his first stories to entertain his children . |
| 9 | He may be a bit ropey at times but he plays his best for us and do n't forget the goals he scored , including one which put paid to the scouse red shite in 1991 . |
| 10 | That was still before people went to chokey for dodgy dealings , but he soured his own patch . |
| 11 | But he wore his horrible home-made blazer until he grew out of it . |
| 12 | But he warns his former coworker that her every move will be scrutinized . |
| 13 | But he touched her slender arm instead , feeling firm brown flesh beneath the loosely flowered silk of her sleeve . |
| 14 | Dissatisfied with mainstream Christianity they were impressed by his apparent certainty , but he persuaded his potential British followers with more than just his Biblical knowledge . |
| 15 | But he raised his left hand again , this time to silence me ; took my arm and led me to the edge of the colonnade . |
| 16 | For the Paris 1925 exhibition , Bernard was technical director for the British government , but he achieved his greatest fame as consultant artistic director to the caterers J. Lyons & Co . |
| 17 | But he made her nervous with — with his height , his sureness , his whole aura … |
| 18 | Erm one was a penalty on Saturday , G Gary 's and of course you ca n't er really lay a lot of credit for getting in the six yard box on penalties , but he took his other goal well , shot and he pick he picked the bits up off the keeper and Gary scored a good headed goal from a a brilliant cross by Tony . |
| 19 | She began to argue , but he cut her short . |
| 20 | ‘ He ca n't work because he is disabled but he does his best for us and makes sure we have everything we need . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ He ca n't work because he is disabled but he does his best for us and makes sure we have everything we need . ’ |
| 22 | This Boden observed other people 's taboos just so far as was necessary , but he went his own way , sure that no values were valid but his own . |
| 23 | Or some toast or a thread … " but he shook his grey head |
| 24 | She struggled in his hold , pressing herself from him ; but he maintained his forceful hold on her and , looking into his face , she said , ‘ I 'm growing up . |
| 25 | Waugh especially admired Orwell 's pioneering essay on the social implications of the vulgar seaside postcard , ‘ The Art of Donald McGill ’ ( 1941 ) ; but he lamented his rooted incapacity to esteem or even entertain any hint of religious sentiment — all the more striking and regrettable , he argues , in one plainly endowed with ‘ an unusually high moral sense and respect for truth and justice ’ . |
| 26 | This was bad news for the poet , who until his late twenties had never ‘ touched the lips of woman ’ , but he did his best to play it her way , listening dutifully when she told him that their spiritual relationship would be damaged ‘ if I came to you in sin . |
| 27 | He was no carpenter but he did his best and he began to sell wood on a larger scale . |
| 28 | His discomfort was extreme and obvious , but he did his best to ignore the pain in his usual stoic manner . |
| 29 | But he did his best . |
| 30 | But he lists his all-time favourite team-mate as Sammy McIlroy . |