Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb -s] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody dislikes him , but nobody knows him ! |
| 2 | ‘ Ah , well , ’ said the blacksmith , ‘ seems a pity — nice little chap , he is , but nobody wants him — he 's no breed , you see . |
| 3 | For the searcher who goes on and comes to believe , this is the only possible starting point — a sense of need which may range from a mild discomfort to a deep conviction , but which spurs him to look for a solution beyond himself . |
| 4 | My mother never sees the ghost in Box 5 , but she hears him ! |
| 5 | ‘ When we heard about poor Alain Gebrec being dead , I had a sudden vision of Dora looking furiously angry … you know how she sometimes glares at Dieter … and I thought for a moment … supposing it had been Dieter who 'd been killed … it might have been Dora who had … oh , I know it 's dreadful of me to think these things , but she hates him so much . ’ |
| 6 | But she calls him a friend , and I have no objections . |
| 7 | But she bullies him , day in , day out . |
| 8 | The neighbour might say : ‘ He goes for her something shocking , but she sticks him because of the kids . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Bob Lamb makes it obvious he 's keen on her , but she treats him like muck . |
| 10 | He 's in love with Poppy , but she ditches him . |
| 11 | I love her but she loves him and he loves no one . |
| 12 | One day , waiting in the car in Albion Street to pick up my brother-in-law from work ( he looks like Norman Lamont , incidently , but she loves him dearly ) , she suddenly saw me , her brother who 's supposed to be living in exile down south , walking along the road in the company of a glamorous lady . |
| 13 | But she sees him suppress what could only be a smirk at her very mention of a dybbuk . |
| 14 | It 's not his name but we calls him Thomas because he 's chubby . |
| 15 | He does n't know anybody , but everybody knows him ( FN 29/4/87 , p. 16 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I can deliver to you next day , but it takes him ten days to get it here , what service does he need ? |
| 18 | Freud 's model of the collective evolution of some parts of humanity from archaic responses , found in religions , to more rational and reality-based responses , found in science and technology , may be little more than a description of what has happened , but it enables him to avoid the position of cultural relativism and its logical extension — nihilism . |
| 19 | But it drains him — mentally and physically . |
| 20 | I know , but it gets him depressed . |
| 21 | This ‘ compensation ’ method of walking may seem to get the patient on his feet more quickly than the modern method , but it leaves him overusing his unaffected side , therefore he is constantly increasing and fighting against his spasticity . |
| 22 | But it infuriates him that , at the colleges , the best players are often exempted from participation in orchestral practice , then to gain prestigious jobs in the profession , without the musical ballast of learned repertoire and style . |
| 23 | His dream of covering whole counties with a giant speaking-tube may be grotesque in itself , but it makes him a remote ancestor of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell . |
| 24 | Stanley can see through Blanche 's lies and deception but what annoys him is the pretence that Blanche puts on pretending to be better than him and taunting him by calling him a ‘ Polak ’ . |