Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] he in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was born in France , but I knew him in Persia . |
| 2 | I w , but I liked him in that one on a Friday night . |
| 3 | ‘ New-fangled ’ ideas , the farmer said , but I convinced him in the end . |
| 4 | Yes , I loved him , but I loved him in my Masai self . |
| 5 | He tried to kiss her , but she evaded him in a half-angry , half-flirtatious way , so they were in the middle of a clumsy clinch when Lucaroni walked in . |
| 6 | The teenager tried to run away when the youths approached him but they punched him in the face and pushed him to the ground . |
| 7 | He tried to get away in his wheelchair , but they caught him in the hallway . |
| 8 | This he will normally be planning to do , but it involves him in a more considerable recasting of his planned activities than the university teacher , and brings him into contact with many more parts of the school life . |
| 9 | But it got him in the end . |
| 10 | But it hurt him in some way to admit that one of his key men came from the wrong end of the Bible , so to speak . |
| 11 | There was no harm in that but it landed him in trouble every time . |
| 12 | James had armed himself with the sword of Robert the Bruce , but it stood him in poor stead . |
| 13 | The 72 might have seemed boring but it put him in charge . |
| 14 | For a moment Seb had forgotten his sprained ankle but it reminded him in no uncertain fashion when he tried to put his full weight on it . |
| 15 | But what undermined him in office , and made him worth hearing out of it , was his surprise at becoming Prime Minister in the first place — Rab Butler shared that — so that , he agreed , he never quite suppressed a sense of the absurdity of his position . |