Example sentences of "but [verb] him the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She resented his tone but told him the real news , Pascoe 's resignation . |
| 2 | I but saw him the once , and yet can not bear for him to despise me so . |
| 3 | Eliot 's vision of the urbane savage was very different from Arnold 's , but gave him the same privileges as his Romantic predecessor . |
| 4 | He was then attacked by James , but gave him the same treatment . |
| 5 | The bearded one did not believe his treacherous words , but gave him the benefit of the doubt and twenty-four hours to reveal the whereabouts of the vessel . |
| 6 | I wanted as far as possible to forearm the boy at the beginning of adolescence — not ramming a weapon into his hand willy-nilly , but showing him the size and shape of it and where it lies in such a way that he would take it up without realizing he was doing so and find himself using it when he needed to . |