Example sentences of "but at the [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ranald walked up with her , but at the gate he halted , shy , ready to turn and run back to his grandfather . |
| 2 | Dzerzhinsky stressed that local authorities should collaborate with them , but at the centre he was adamant that they should take no part in transport decisions that had any , political implications . |
| 3 | But at the interview he said , " I could n't figure out if you were at school or not " , so I told him and he said , " And you 've managed to do your A levels ? " |
| 4 | He is not easy at the hostel and it is possible that he will have to return to hospital , but at the moment he is not certifiable . ’ |
| 5 | I am not saying he might not one day be the best player for England — but at the moment he is n't . |
| 6 | I 'll be heartbroken when he does finally go , but at the moment he seems to be spending a very happy retirement . |
| 7 | The male sits on the nest , but at the moment he appears to be out getting a meal . |
| 8 | So you can imagine Frank Clarke thinking well we 've got the wind behind us we 've got ta put a lot of high balls into the box and he is very important to us but at the moment he 's not making the box . |
| 9 | But at the moment he 's well he 's not come back to us with any answer from our offer at all so we 're we 're presuming that means no so we thought we 'd better start looking . |
| 10 | Also Martin Foyle , now of course , there , there is a rumour that Ipswich Town are after him , but at the moment he 's scoring goals for Oxford ; five in the last five games , he 's scored two , and also a mention for Steve McLaren . |
| 11 | Simon Parsons was last in his semi but at the line he was closing on Vekic of Jugoslavia . |
| 12 | But at the time he was glad to leave . |
| 13 | Lewis treasured this conversation in after years , but at the time he found it disconcerting and annoying . |
| 14 | But at the time he had no one with the expertise to guide him , and was very easily influenced by the persuasive arguments of the last person he spoke to on any given subject . |
| 15 | By temperament he could never be a member of a group , but at the time he was associated with a talented wartime circle which included Max Jacob , the poet Cocteau , the composer Eric Satie , the painters Juan Gris , Kisling , Foujita and , more rarely , Picasso and the sculptors Archipenko , Zadkine and Lipchitz . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't see how anybody can pick up a guitar nowadays and not give some credit to Jimi Hendrix because , at the time — people do n't remember this — but at the time he came out , people were ready to give up the guitar and go onto other instruments . |
| 17 | After the event it looks very much as if his campaigns overstrained the resources of his empire and made it impossible to hold together , but at the time he was seen as the greatest of conquerors . |
| 18 | I love Lucy , but at the time he was more important to me than she was , in one sense . |
| 19 | Later , when lucidity returned to him , the recollection of that made him blush and cringe , but at the time he did not care . |
| 20 | ‘ They 're divorced now , apparently , and Paul 's married to someone else , but at the time he was going to divorce Sonia and marry me . |
| 21 | And I do n't know how , what 's happened about it now but at the time he was still having to pay for it |
| 22 | It seemed as though he was going straight through but at the entrance he stopped peeped into the passage and broke away . |
| 23 | The Attorney-General was joined as a respondent to the application because he had declined to grant his fiat under section 13 of the Coroners Act 1988 , but at the hearing he was released from the proceedings with the consent of all parties . |
| 24 | But at the end he had said to her soberly that it was imagination . |
| 25 | ‘ I must say the old trousers he wears let him down a little — but at the wedding he 'll wear his best suit . |