Example sentences of "but he [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he released a decree placing the media under his protection and ordering the ministry of the interior to take ‘ necessary measures ’ to defend the state-run television , radio and information agencies . |
| 2 | He failed in three attempts to secure election to the Trades Union Congress 's parliamentary committee , but he represented the vellum binders at the foundation conference of the labour representation committee in February 1900 , and was elected to its executive . |
| 3 | ‘ But he talks a lot of tripe about football , and his team 's a disgrace . ’ |
| 4 | Top weight and soft ground proved his undoing but he ran an absolute cracker to finish third to Sibton Abbey . |
| 5 | ‘ He must have heard something or picked up a scent but he led the rescuers to a bramble bush and the elderly man was found trapped inside . |
| 6 | He did not make it obvious , but he led the conversation , changed topics when he thought it needed it , enquired robustly of the lawyer certain things , and more gently of the females , as if to bring out gems of information they had stored in their pretty little heads . |
| 7 | But he led the field a merry dance until being overhauled inside the final furlong . |
| 8 | Lyle , starting at the 10th , began badly with a bogey five but he birdied the 15th , 16th , first , sixth and seventh holes . |
| 9 | But he formed the opinion , which he never afterwards lost , that the Church must gain its proper freedom from the State in the care for its own way of worship , if necessary by disestablishment , from which he never thereafter shrank . |
| 10 | Hobbs could have put Bradford 9-8 ahead with his easiest kick of the afternoon , but he struck a post and six minutes later Maskill scored the try which started that late rush of Leeds points . |
| 11 | " It 's not far now , lads , " the corporal chirped from the rear , but he struck no responsive chords in the toiling group . |
| 12 | But he emphasised the need for good education . |
| 13 | He believed that the study of nature was conducive to this , but he rejected the connection of this ideal with atheism . |
| 14 | For Shakhnazarov , socialism would continue as long as mankind pursued a better world ; but he rejected the idea of ‘ stages ’ of human history and the primacy of economic factors and saw communism itself as a ‘ hypothesis ’ or even a ‘ dream ’ . |
| 15 | They agreed to pay him thirty three thousand pounds but he rejected the offer . |
| 16 | But he dropped a key ring containing a picture of himself and his girlfriend as he crept upstairs to steal the woman 's jewellery . |
| 17 | In Laker 's case the minister was seeking to require the Civil Aviation Authority to follow his policy but he chose a way of doing this which the Court of Appeal considered not to be within his powers . |
| 18 | The Minister said that the peak age for offending has risen to 18 from 15 , but he chose the end of the two-year period that I would describe as covering the most vulnerable young people on whom the Government have picked in the past 12 years . |
| 19 | But he got a 50 per cent rise for taking the £120,000 CBI job . |
| 20 | And on the Dixon fight , the British , European and Commonwealth champion said : ‘ I gave him a taste but he got a bit feisty by trying to hit me back and I took him out . |
| 21 | But he got a pattern made and had the base of the machine made at a local foundry and he made all the leverage parts and got the , he got the blades made in Sheffield or somewhere and er he made one for himself . |
| 22 | The affair did not last long , but he got a short story out of it . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But he got a bit carried away … |
| 25 | And Jim er Bill grabbed the camera that was on the mantlepiece and he got a shot , not of me , but he got a shot of Pat and her friend and Bryan and er , it was er , er , something I 'll never forget . |
| 26 | but he got a phone call on the Tuesday from Mr 's secretary to say oh Mr would like to see you anyway because er he feels it may have erm it was a letter , I 'm sorry , which came |
| 27 | 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 ! |
| 28 | The king ate several more lettuces but he got no better . |
| 29 | Alex may have had some response ready , but he got no chance to voice it , as Bobby Anscombe turned his fury on Paul Lexington . |
| 30 | ‘ . But he got no further , for Charlie squawked with fright + flew away . |