Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] him [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But I made him a vow , ’ she shrugged .
2 He made a half-hearted move towards me , but I gave him no encouragement .
3 I think I said it was a 6-iron or maybe a 7 , but I gave him the yardage and he hit his shot right at the hole .
4 But she calls him a friend , and I have no objections .
5 Flaubert was distressed and begged for mercy , but she gave him no quarter . ’
6 He tried to start things up in a halfhearted sort of way , but she gave him an ultimatum .
7 I said the sharp one this one he 's fairly cheap but they use him a lot , .
8 He called at the dogs , but they paid him no attention .
9 The airport hotel was an expensive way to live , but they gave him a trade reduction , which seemed the logically absurd extension of a farcical situation .
10 The plans were sent to the Governors of the Greenwich Hospital , but they gave him no encouragement .
11 As a result he was suspended for two years , which of course delayed his entry into first-class cricket ; but it taught him a lot .
12 Einstein proposed a simple relationship but it took him a number of years to identify the precise form of the curvature tensor involved .
13 He drank heavily , but it gave him no elation , merely intensified his mood .
14 But it gave him no comfort .
15 The dialogue tonight might be controlled and rational — but it gave him no ease .
16 But it gave him an excuse to retire for a while , to re-assess things .
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