Example sentences of "but he [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had often told her that it was a social disadvantage having the sort of wife he could n't take anywhere , but he dropped this line when she started appearing beside him at literary lunches and old school do 's . |
| 2 | I do n't know how Ian Cromb got it , but he got this great big blimmin' pipe and went along to Dad and said ‘ How about a fill , Dad ? ’ . |
| 3 | But he meant this to come for only a few days , not for an indefinite stay . |
| 4 | Manpower was a problem , but he felt this deserved top priority . |
| 5 | But he felt this was a minority reaction and warned : ‘ Given the increasing emphasis on the property and space audit I do n't think the profession as a whole is as geared up as it should be . ’ |
| 6 | But he planted this gaol in the middle of Buckingham as a sort of rebuke to the townspeople . |
| 7 | But he had this thing about us [ seven brothers — two in Jamaica — and two sisters ] concentrating more and more on school work . ’ |
| 8 | The burgess might have no land at all in the fields ; but he had this right to graze his cattle after Lammas over any man 's lands , freely and wherever he liked . |
| 9 | A little gig It was n't a gig either , he did have a gig but he had this thing , a sort of long shaped er What would you call it ? |
| 10 | One of my favourite presidents , Theodore Roosevelt , president from the early part of the twentieth century and known as the damned cowboy erm you might be interested to know how people become president erm Theodore Roosevelt was an arch imperialist and got very excited about the er war with Spain er America had a s little brief war with Spain at the end of the nineteenth century erm over the possession of Cuba , and erm in eighteen ninety eight , and this aroused great patriotic feelings in all red blooded Americans and especially in Theodore Roosevelt and er er Roosevelt formed his own company of cavalry called the Rough Riders and erm Roosevelt wore glasses and was asthmatic but he had this group called the Rough Riders , sort of early kind of Clint Eastwood stuff , and erm anyway he g he was engaged in the war with Spain er and there was one wonderful moment in the war Spain in which the Spaniards were at the top of a hill called the San Juan hill er and er Teddy , as he was known , of course he gave his name to the teddy bear , did you know that did you ? |
| 11 | The very high bore tides rarely occured during the hours of darkness , but he knew this one was predicted to be a twenty seven footer , and that meant danger . |
| 12 | Duroc had barely heard of the Ancient Adversary , but he knew this entity was one of the few Great Unseen Powers that stood in opposition to the Dark Ones , the extra-dimensional masters to whom Nguyen Seth had dedicated his long life . |
| 13 | Rebecque looked up into Sharpe 's tired and dust-stained face and wondered just how Sharpe had taken a prisoner , but he knew this was no time for foolish questions . |
| 14 | But he knew this to be a delusion . |
| 15 | He could get a job and earn some money to buy some clothes — but he knew this was just a dream . |
| 16 | The sophistication of this turn is indicated in its formal lexicon and its syntactic and semantic complexities ( both visible when he reverses Wittgenstein 's famous statement to produce his own aphorism , " Whereof we can not speak , thereof we are by no means silent " ) but he uses this complexity deliberately to obfuscate the sense of his utterance and to enable a swift escape to the World Cup qualifier . |
| 17 | But he achieves this with an intense desire for revenge . |
| 18 | But he expresses this by saying that we ‘ can proceed no farther by reasoning than to things which must be exposed again to experience or which can be evidenced by means of some appearance ’ ; and this seems to suggest something new . |
| 19 | When they started making love she protested a little , but he thought this was just talk , since she was kissing him and caressing him . |
| 20 | But he thought this is a big surprise then . |
| 21 | The military advice given to Mountbatten was that they should not be armed , but he overruled this and gave his recognition to the AFO . |
| 22 | He formulated in haunting terms the longing expressed by Platonists for the source of all beauty : " late have I loved Thee , O Beauty so ancient and so new " , but he recognised this longing as itself the working of God 's gift of love in man — in theological terms , the grace of the Holy Spirit . |
| 23 | This last statement should be noticed — he disliked assemblies and places where speeches were made at length and he did not enjoy being a chairman — but he made this single exception , the Convocation of York ; he always gave a presidential address , about which he took much trouble . |
| 24 | No he would 've done if you had n't , but he says this |
| 25 | But he suppressed this suggestion . |
| 26 | But he knows this is part of the game . |
| 27 | There were many things he would have liked to have done but he needed this man , who , with a combination of chance and logic , could reach the truths which might affect the realm . |
| 28 | But he sees this foundationalist as a weak-kneed sceptic , who ought in consistency to go further ; who ought , in fact , to doubt whether he understands the proposition that other minds exist , and so ought to be a solipsist . |
| 29 | Weber admits that a common market situation may provide a basis for collective class action but he sees this only as a possibility . |
| 30 | He had not enjoyed that photo session either , but he disliked this even more . |