Example sentences of "but he [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 His century was greeted with an angry scythe of the bat in the direction of the Notts dressing-room , but he later apologised to his skipper for being ‘ a bit naive ’ .
2 But he later acted as agent for the chief minister , Robert Cecil , first Earl of Salisbury [ q.v. ] , over private bills , and supported the great contract to put government finances on a sounder footing .
3 But he strongly disapproved of the proselytizing that went on under the cloak of humanitarianism .
4 Braque may have been at first bewildered by the Demoiselles d'Avignon , but he nevertheless responded to its stimulus , most immediately perhaps in the pen and ink drawing of three nudes published in 1910 as La Femme : the central figure , seated on her haunches , is a clear reference to the squatting Demoiselle , although the composition as a whole curiously anticipates that of Picasso 's Three Women .
5 Throughout August Col. Moamer al Kadhafi , the leader of Libya , consistently criticized the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait , but he nevertheless voted against the Cairo summit resolution .
6 But he bravely touched on the issue of CTCs , which he said his party would scrap .
7 In Structuralist Poetics Culler took an unenthusiastic view of deconstructionism , but he shortly returned to the United States and succumbed to the deconstructive wave that swept through the American academy in the late seventies , and into which I did not feel inclined to plunge .
8 But he soon got into his stride , and began to develop a whole bestiary of characters who were to delight millions for the next twenty-three years .
9 He went to work for the Gas Light & Coke Company at Beckton in 1908 but he soon chafed at not being given the free rein to which he had become accustomed at Davis Bros .
10 Winchester 's next posting was to Cyprus to build defences , but he soon returned to the Western Desert , where , between May and September , he was involved in desperate rearguard actions — the battle of Gazala , followed by Alamein in July , when Auchinleck checked Rommel , who was then within striking distance of Alexandria .
11 Intended at first for the church , he was sent to Göttingen , but he soon turned to legal studies and the pursuit of mineralogy under Johann Friedrich Blumenbach .
12 Carrie looked at him sharply but he simply seemed to be in an unusually good temper .
13 She tried to tell him that hospitals had been using such beds for years , but he just went into another tantrum .
14 I remonstrated with him but he just laughed in my face . ’
15 I asked a passing cop what was going on , but he just double-took on me and snarled , ‘ You would n't believe it . ’
16 ‘ First , Hopkins was a monk , a Benedictine from Glastonbury but he also served as a chaplain for the Santerres here at Templecombe as well as for the outlying farms .
17 In Philip 's two honours subjects , Maths and History , he did particularly well but he also passed in five other subjects including Welsh and his loathed Chemistry .
18 Mr Clinton said the successful completion of the GATT ( General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ) Uruguay Round was part of his national economic strategy to expand trade , but he also insisted on ‘ fair trade rules in international markets ’ and spoke of ‘ appropriate safeguards ’ for US workers .
19 Pressing for the abolition of the pernicious fee system had been an obvious target but he also pressed for liquor taps to be banned and the sale of drink to inmates to be closely regulated ; for the gaolers to be resident at the gaol instead of offering only minimal supervision if they lived away from it ; for the provision of chaplains and doctors and the detailing and publishing of prison rules and regulations .
20 In Tervoort 's ( 1983 ) survey he discovered six of his responding countries had a signed spoken language form ( Finland , Ireland , Norway , Rumania , Sweden and the Soviet Union ) , but he also discovered in a further five countries an ‘ unofficial ’ system of signs structured to reflect the spoken language .
21 Now playing at inside-right , Whitworth was top scorer with 16 goals , but he also combined with Frank so effectively that we had a comfortable 2nd Division season , and then he headed our scoring chart again in 1924–25 .
22 But he also believed in a sort of Lamarckian view of the inheritance of a ‘ primal schema ’ of desires and fantasies which determined the form taken by the Oedipal situation .
23 According to Bede , Eadwine not only established himself as overlord of all the kingdoms south of the Humber with the exception of Kent , but he also ruled over all the inhabitants of Britain , Angles and Britons alike ( HE II , 5 ) .
24 He was clearly nervous about having a foreigner in his house , but he also wanted to be hospitable .
25 In a glowing vision of The ascent of man ( 1894 ) , Drummond acknowledged the Darwinian struggle for life , but he also referred to a struggle for the life of others .
26 But he also drew on the experience of European fascism , and the American New Deal era , to suggest that a new managerial elite was in the process of assuming control across all contemporary political systems .
27 But he also spoke of the kingdom being present on earth now , in a way that pointed forward to the fullness of its coming in the future .
28 At one moment Beveridge can be found looking to the exchanges for the ‘ discouragement ’ of ‘ blind-alley ’ work , but he also warned against starting out with ‘ the idea of rigidly prescribing all but the best employments …
29 In the editorial which he wrote for the last issue , he discussed the general political situation which had provoked in him a depression of spirit so different from anything he had experienced in the last fifty years as " to be a new emotion " ; but he also confessed to a feeling of staleness as editor .
30 But he immediately disagreed with the producer about the politics of the show , and was sent back to the Science Unit .
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