Example sentences of "but [noun] [noun prp] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Lin Foh interrupted him . |
| 2 | Alex Salmond did n't go looking for a fight but Ian Lang gave him one anyway . |
| 3 | But if you do n't want to hear it … ’ he made as if to go but Herr Nordern took him by the elbow . |
| 4 | " I did n't know him — I only spoke to him for a few minutes , but David Fairfax recognised him . " |
| 5 | But Mr Patten told him good government should be founded on fact , not fantasy . |
| 6 | He was a good local caddie but Mr Palmer made him nervous , and I could tell he 'd sooner be with Gary player and a quiet life . |
| 7 | Mr Walden tried repetition , as usual , but Mr Kinnock out-repeated him . |
| 8 | But Martin Parr cut him off . |
| 9 | ‘ But Black Michael has him . ’ |
| 10 | KMT secretary-general James Soong tendered his resignation in the election aftermath , but President Lee persuaded him to remain in his post . |
| 11 | Daniel Field wrote in 1976 that " The fear of peasant unrest … can not be shown to have been decisive in the decision to emancipate " , but Larisa Zakharova took him to task eight years later for failing to explain the emancipation in terms of " the fear of a peasant rising or the moods and struggle of the peasantry " . |
| 12 | He even tried looking in the oven but Mrs Bird drove him out of her kitchen with her feather duster . |
| 13 | Joe Gargery 's uncle ‘ ( … but Mrs Joe appropriated him ) ’ , a ‘ well-to-do corn-chandler ’ . |
| 14 | But Gareth Williams beat him on the second . |
| 15 | From this point of view , opportunities must have seemed slow to come , but de Valois gave him at least one chance every year from the time of his joining the company : Adieu and Tritsch Tratsch in 1947 , Children 's Corner in 1948 and , for the following year , his most ambitious production to date , Sea Change . |
| 16 | He left Selhurst Park for Aston Villa in November 1987 , amid a storm of controversy , for just £150,000 , but Steve Coppell brought him back to the Palace from Queens Park Rangers in a £ l/2 million deal upon the eve of our return to Division One in August 1989 . |
| 17 | He turned , making to leave , but Li Yuan called him back . |
| 18 | Skipper Martin Crowe top-scored in both innings , but New Zealand needed him to turn scores of 45 and 56 into centuries and more |