Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] him [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 2 | She had been disappointed in her first sight of him , but she gave him an amused little smile , hoping that he was not one who doted on cats . |
| 3 | But they called him the un-canny Scot . |
| 4 | A few people were waiting and one of them called out angrily as Joe stepped in ahead of them all , but he gave him a one-second blast of his sub-zero gaze and said , ‘ Police business , ’ and then he turned his back and forgot the man completely . |
| 5 | His dream of covering whole counties with a giant speaking-tube may be grotesque in itself , but it makes him a remote ancestor of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell . |
| 6 | It hardly made him a frequent visitor , but it gave him a few numbers to ring . |