Example sentences of "but he [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frank is driven out in the darkest darkness in Leeds , but he got a golden oppurtunity when he was selected for Drillos squad to play USA [ and Costa Rica — killers of Sweden in last WC for those who remember — my comm. ] later this month . |
| 2 | And I had Avenger estate , and I done the same with that and I got away with it for ages and I what you want a do , I know what you wan na do he erm , I mean that 's that 's really sort of pushing it over the top but he got a great big sheet of polythene , he went down to ready mix and had a load of ready mix in the back of this Avenger estate , brand new he 'd only just got it ! |
| 3 | The affair did not last long , but he got a short story out of it . |
| 4 | They got the Hunter-Blair column and they got Girlie but he prevented a great many other things . |
| 5 | The next evening my father was brought home in a German car , but he seemed a broken man . |
| 6 | But he felt a tremendous sense of awe at the invitation to visit the President as an equal . |
| 7 | His teachers at his Plymouth school threw scorn on the idea of going to a redbrick university when he could have chosen Oxford , but he felt a strong pull towards oil engineering and displayed the stubborn streak that was later to characterise his industrial career . |
| 8 | Ford was a decent man , and a kind one , but he had a worrying nervousness that aggravated d'Alembord 's patience . |
| 9 | Mesmerized by the Public Prosecutor 's performance , no one had yet noticed him , but he had a nasty feeling that this was about to change . |
| 10 | His hair was thinning on top but he had a small ponytail at the back . |
| 11 | But he had a keen interest in a deal . |
| 12 | He does not cite Roman law sources very often , but he had a practical turn of mind and was active in curial business and administration . |
| 13 | He was forty-one years old , but he had a young face , like a boy . |
| 14 | He had n't known where to go , but he had a good instinct for direct , and he 'd reckoned as how a gateway had to be in the shell , far away from the heat sink as could be . |
| 15 | His features were regular but he had a distinct cast in one eye , so that he could n't stare straight at her without looking somewhere else . |
| 16 | But he had a dark side , too , as I 'm sure everybody knows , and Seve Ballesteros could n't lace Weiskopf 's boots when it came to bad temper on the course . ’ |
| 17 | But he had a mild , good-humoured , articulate side , verging on the academic , abjuring the sensational . |
| 18 | At that time Poole , like John , had to rely on stage presence more than technique , but he had a powerful personality and a quick intelligent appreciation of character which enabled him to give memorable performances in many of John 's early ballets . |
| 19 | But he had a fixed idea in his mind that to be a bishop was not his work . |
| 20 | He seemed austere and I never saw him with a hair out of place , or a button undone , but he had a healthy Dutch appetite . |
| 21 | He might be all the rotters of the universe , but he had a gentle , magical touch with the child . |
| 22 | There was no night-porter , but he had a key and he let himself in to the deserted lobby . |
| 23 | But he had a deep affection for his wife , and she for him . |
| 24 | In no way had he been consciously sadistic over the earlier years , but he had a deep fear of women who took over , as his mother had done . |
| 25 | But he had a wide following in the United States , and several American orthopaedic surgeons visited him . |
| 26 | Angalo had found a pebble that was almost the right shape to attach to a twig with strips torn off his coat ; he 'd never seen a stone axe in his life , but he had a definite feeling that there were useful things that could be done with a stone tied to the end of a stick . |
| 27 | He was a great melodist , but he had a real struggle being caught up in the machinery of making hits . |
| 28 | Aung San may not have known which knife and fork to use when he dined at Government House but he had a sure grasp of the realities of power . |
| 29 | But he had a well-appointed town-house , took government pensions and subsidies to agriculture . |
| 30 | After his first book , A London Farrago , appeared in 1921 , he published almost annually a volume of satire or humour , but he had a parallel career as a biographer , writing vigorous and scholarly lives of writers like Villon ( 1928 ) , Ronsard ( 1944 ) , Rabelais ( 1957 ) , Molière ( 1959 ) , and Cervantes ( 1962 ) ; studies of Louis XI ( King Spider , 1930 ) , and Charles V ( Emperor of the West , 1932 ) . |