Example sentences of "but he [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he released her and said , ‘ Not very responsive . |
| 2 | His face was pinched with cold and he looked rather dejected , but he greeted them heartily . |
| 3 | But he greeted me by swearing at me , so I went into the hall to find somebody else . |
| 4 | Wickenden , as purchasing director , is naturally reticent about details , but he led me to believe that smuggling nuts out of Turkey was an important activity , and that everyone except presumably the government , was satisfied with this arrangement . |
| 5 | I was certain he did n't know I was following him , but he led me a pretty dance almost as if he was trying to lose me . |
| 6 | The power moves his hand , as if by magnetism , but he forces it back , to touch the phial of Galadriel and be momentarily relieved . |
| 7 | It is some five years since I worked with Mr Edell in his previous incarnation as a lawyer , but he struck me as a man who would do the necessary . |
| 8 | One eveing I dared to stretch out my hand to his plate , but he struck me a sharp blow over the back of my fingers . |
| 9 | But he woke me up this morning to wish me a happy anniversary . |
| 10 | But he rejected her : too ugly . |
| 11 | Other factors included the fact that the liberal-nationalist unification movement looked to Prussia as the natural leader of Germany : the Frankfurt Assembly offered the King of Prussia the imperial crown in 1849 but he rejected it , disliking their excessive parliamentary vision for the new Germany . |
| 12 | Preston half understood this because it was in him , too , but he rejected it , also , because it scared him too much . |
| 13 | But he rejected it almost as soon as it crossed his mind . |
| 14 | Hurst 's voice had risen a little , but he dropped it again as he realized that several pairs of eyes were watching them with interest . |
| 15 | Adorno , we have seen , acknowledges this specificity — indeed , for him it explains the ( unfulfilled ) potential of jazz and the hangovers of ‘ real ’ creativity in some Tin Pan Alley songs ; but he subsumes it into a theory of ‘ false individualization ’ , designed , in his view , to disguise mass cultural production as ‘ art ’ . |
| 16 | Cor but he got him so riled and you know . |
| 17 | She went to sleep , she was so heavy that he thought he could barely carry her another step but he got her home and set her down in the warmth of the kitchen . |
| 18 | But he got me started ; the curiosity . ’ |
| 19 | Erm but he got he got sidetracked by this guy , and they were talking and he he mentioned a photograph , and he got in like you know . |
| 20 | But he got his by being murdered . ’ |
| 21 | The wig he finally chose needed modification by a barber ; but he got it done , put on a pair of folding spectacles he carried in his briefcase , and had the satisfaction of astonishing his colleagues when he walked back into the hotel . |
| 22 | It took him a little while , but he got it fixed in the end , then held out his dummy hand for the gun . |
| 23 | His eyes gleamed , but he imagined it was still to do with the vistas shown to the merchant by the Genius of Riches . |
| 24 | Wycliffe felt like patting him on the head , but he thanked him and saw him off with his samples , then he went back to his little office and sat staring at the wall . |
| 25 | Sickness rose in Nuadu , but he fought it and forced himself to watch . |
| 26 | Morathi shrieked her protests at her son not being chosen but he calmed her and agreed that the selection was a good one . |
| 27 | ‘ She will start training for Wimbledon this weekend , ’ added her agent , but he admitted her playing in the year 's third Grand Slam tournament was ‘ not a certainty ’ . |
| 28 | When Wendell had been interviewed , he had refused to say how many dollars the shindig was costing him but he admitted it was a lot . |
| 29 | But he admitted he could not be sure he saw a soldier make contact with another soldier with his rifle . |
| 30 | But he admitted he had n't seen the pictures before firing Mr Hughes from his £22,000-a-year job with office equipment suppliers Fellowes . |