Example sentences of "but he [verb] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It took him a little while , but he got it fixed in the end , then held out his dummy hand for the gun . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | said it looked alright , but to me she said it 's terrible because it 's so short , I 've never had it this short in my life but he said it looked OK |
| 6 | He would n't go into details over the phone but he said it had something to do with Bernard . |
| 7 | He said , but he said it does n't give us the excuse of not paying the invoices on time , and he said erm I have warned him for it this morning and he said he will process it , and he said the cheque will be in the post here on Monday . |
| 8 | With an irritable little gesture of her hand , she leaned back and said more quietly , ‘ It did n't look unsafe , but he had it surveyed , and , whether the surveyor was in his pocket or no , a report was written to that effect . |
| 9 | I know he hated it , but he wore it to please me . ’ |
| 10 | He did not think that their ambitions extended far into Western Europe but he thought it had been a serious error to let the Russians take Berlin and establish themselves there . |
| 11 | But he says it has some stiff competition from a consortium of Eastern universities and industry . |
| 12 | But he says it 's got this wee arrow here 's got to be in the middle of this dial , you know . |
| 13 | The chief of the Near East Division had sat him down one day to try to teach him about Iran , but he doubted it had gone in . |
| 14 | it was supposed to be a normal meeting but he changed it to talk about the cuts you know the |
| 15 | A Scottish solicitor , George Hann , told the charity it might be being set up but he believes it reacted too slowly and as a result the fraudsters were able to escape . |
| 16 | Believe it or not , she is prepared to pay … ’ — and then he mentions what is no more than the market value of the land , but he makes it sound like a king 's ransom — ‘ … per acre . |
| 17 | But he let it pass . |
| 18 | but he let it lapse because |
| 19 | But he wants it to go up one percent . |
| 20 | Beck had a miserable round in The Players Championship last week but he confessed it helped him in his charging 65 , one off the course record . |