Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] him [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He usually stops eating for a couple of days but I talk him out of it . |
| 2 | Once he nearly caught it but someone pushed him out of the way at the last moment . |
| 3 | Preston stumbled out of bed and tried to give her a hug , but she fought him off as if it was an attack . |
| 4 | Comfort shook it and murmured something formally polite , but she looked him over in rather obvious disdain , tilting back her small head to see his face . |
| 5 | But she coaxed him along with her unwaveringly sympathetic smile , and he ordered everyone to dismantle the tables and re-set them . |
| 6 | For one terrifying moment she thought he was going to subdue her again but she threw him off with a shove . |
| 7 | ‘ He had three years with John Edwards , but we bought him back for 5,600gns a year last June and he will be with me for the rest of his days . ’ |
| 8 | We could 've done it really , but it kept him in with the people like and er . |