Example sentences of "but he [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top weight and soft ground proved his undoing but he ran an absolute cracker to finish third to Sibton Abbey . |
| 2 | Lyle , starting at the 10th , began badly with a bogey five but he birdied the 15th , 16th , first , sixth and seventh holes . |
| 3 | " It 's not far now , lads , " the corporal chirped from the rear , but he struck no responsive chords in the toiling group . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | The affair did not last long , but he got a short story out of it . |
| 7 | But he got a 50 per cent rise for taking the £120,000 CBI job . |
| 8 | The king ate several more lettuces but he got no better . |
| 9 | Bond paid very high prices A$1,250,000 for Bunnys ' ‘ Une Nuit de Canicule ’ ( Joels Melbourne , 1988 ) destroyed in last year 's fire at Bourlet art shippers , and A$506,000 for Webber 's ‘ Portrait of Captain Cook ’ ( Sotheby 's Melbourne , 1984 ) but he purchased the best available . |
| 10 | They got the Hunter-Blair column and they got Girlie but he prevented a great many other things . |
| 11 | He was a loyal member of the Copenhagen school but he displayed a greater flexibility than most in the expression of his understanding . |
| 12 | Blood tests confirmed he had the disease in December 1987 but he kept the tragic secret from his family for more than three years . |
| 13 | The next evening my father was brought home in a German car , but he seemed a broken man . |
| 14 | But he felt no emotional objection to republicanism ; he merely doubted its efficiency . |
| 15 | His father 's family was by now a familiar part of his life , but he felt no particular attachment to any of them . |
| 16 | But he felt a tremendous sense of awe at the invitation to visit the President as an equal . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | His mother leaned across the seat to squeeze his hand , but he felt an inner coldness towards her and did n't respond . |
| 19 | His occasional outbursts of anger shocked those around him , but he felt an uncontrollable flame of fury whenever he saw a child being bullied or mistreated which blinded him to all else . |
| 20 | But he told the Legislative Council : ‘ We do recognise that the current uncertain situation can not be allowed to continue for much longer and that we will need to gazette the bill if a decision on talks ca n't be reached imminently . ’ |
| 21 | But he told an Australian newspaper there was ‘ nothing more beautiful ’ than the centre court , adding : ‘ There are unbelievable positives with these strange traditions . ’ |
| 22 | But he said the other one 's a cheeky little bugger he said really . |
| 23 | But he said the real reason for the motion was the DUP 's wish to embarrass the Ulster Unionist party and ‘ tweak them back into line . ’ |
| 24 | But he said the young man 's fears that he would fail his exams were almost certainly unfounded . |
| 25 | But he said the main purpose of the Baha'i Faith was to bring people together . |
| 26 | The next day another visitor called but he said the same as the first . |
| 27 | He said he accepted back to prison would cause added distress and punishment , but he said the original sentence did not reflect the gravity of the offence or Haydons bad driving record . |
| 28 | But he said the whole thing |
| 29 | But he said the full programme has had to be reduced because of spending limitations placed on the council 's housing budget . |
| 30 | He knew from prior disasters that the rock presaged bad rapids , but he had no other clue as to what lay ahead . |