Example sentences of "but [det] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | His experience had led him to become a teacher at training sessions , but that prevented him from putting into practice his own form of calculated waging of war . |
| 2 | But that led him to be grilled by detectives for two hours because he unwittingly bought a cabinet stolen from an old lady in North Oxford a few days before . |
| 3 | I said it was preposterous , but that made him even angrier . |
| 4 | He did give power to schools and parents , but that made him enemies . |
| 5 | But that shocked him . |
| 6 | But that put him at a disadvantage according to the flatty rules Daine had strung himself with . |
| 7 | He had been about to say no to her , but that decided him . |
| 8 | ‘ I politely asked him not to bully me but that infuriated him . |
| 9 | In the third movement March his speed is less hectic than that of Pletnev or Jansons , but this allows him to bring out the rhythms with more of a swagger . |
| 10 | Some might remark disparagingly on Branson 's lack of clubbishness ; but most respected him , as one rival put it , ‘ as a successful predatory animal in the music business jungle ’ . |