Example sentences of "but he [verb] his [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Lee would catch them , he always did , but he kept his own counsel because when Garry got mad he sent him home .
2 But he had his good side , too . ’
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 His books still sell nearly four million copies a year , but he wrote his first stories to entertain his children .
6 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 .
7 That was still before people went to chokey for dodgy dealings , but he soured his own patch .
8 But he wore his horrible home-made blazer until he grew out of it .
9 But he warns his former coworker that her every move will be scrutinized .
10 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 .
11 But he raised his left hand again , this time to silence me ; took my arm and led me to the edge of the colonnade .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 ‘ He ca n't work because he is disabled but he does his best for us and makes sure we have everything we need . ’
15 ‘ He ca n't work because he is disabled but he does his best for us and makes sure we have everything we need . ’
16 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 .
17 Or some toast or a thread … " but he shook his grey head
18 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 .
19 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 ’ .
20 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 .
21 He was no carpenter but he did his best and he began to sell wood on a larger scale .
22 His discomfort was extreme and obvious , but he did his best to ignore the pain in his usual stoic manner .
23 But he did his best .
24 But he lists his all-time favourite team-mate as Sammy McIlroy .
25 St Jovite has landed an unfavourable outside draw , but he reserves his best form for right-handed tracks like Longchamp and he 's likely to be sharper than when beaten by Dr Devious at Leopardstown .
26 But he reserves his deepest angst for thespianism which is , according to this latter-day Irving , ‘ a pain , like a trip to the dentist — an unpleasant experience . ’
27 Edward was dressed impeccably , but he retained his raffish air .
28 He did not attend torture personally , but he found his natural aversion to mistreating a defenceless person gradually being eroded .
29 Moyer 's Puritanism was more extreme that Goodwin 's or Owen 's , but neither fanatical nor over-rigid ; for instance , he championed a bill in Barebone 's Parliament to abolish lay patronage over ecclesiastical benefices , but he exercised his own right of presentation to the rectory of Pitsea in 1656 .
30 Cork , who had dropped back into midfield , dashed to meet Reading full-back Steve Richardson in a race for the ball but he hoisted his attempted back pass over the stranded Prudhoe .
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