Example sentences of "but i [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was born in France , but I knew him in Persia . |
| 2 | But I saw him with his cap full of golden sovereigns and turned on the table and lent them all he 'd got . |
| 3 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 4 | I disagreed with much of what he had to say , but I welcome him to the House from this Bench and look forward to debating these issues with him on many occasions . |
| 5 | But I secured him by his stump and went on . |
| 6 | but I put him on some medicine I got from the chemist and it seems to have calmed it down but his nose is more er hot and cold |
| 7 | I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time . |
| 8 | He wanted to rush round straight away but I asked him to be patient . |
| 9 | But I told him about the telly that it 's a bit beyond redemption . |
| 10 | No , it was a farmer 's , and erm he did n't want to sell it , but I pursued him for nearly a year , and in the end he said that I could erm buy it and erm that 's when the project began . |
| 11 | I w , but I liked him in that one on a Friday night . |
| 12 | He 'd at first said , ‘ wild flowers ’ , but I reminded him of what had happened at Caroline 's wedding . |
| 13 | , I said , she said but I expect him to . |
| 14 | I went to punch him but I caught him with the crowbar instead . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ New-fangled ’ ideas , the farmer said , but I convinced him in the end . |
| 16 | ‘ But I want him on my terms . ’ |
| 17 | Yes , I loved him , but I loved him in my Masai self . |
| 18 | But I beat him to it . |
| 19 | He is certainly all that , but I see him as the new Jasper Johns — that great transformer of icons — with sex , shopping and the detritus of the suburbs in place of Johns 's targets , beer cans and flags . |
| 20 | ‘ Go on — it will cheer you up ’ but I dismissed him like the rest , saying I was not thirsty , despising the thought of drinking from the same grimy bottle which a rogue had . |