Example sentences of "but [Wh det] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1976 he was found to be suffering from a spinal disease which was unrelated to the accident but which rendered him totally unfit for work . |
| 2 | Matthew thought his mother sounded very young , her voice bright with some emotion he could not quite define but which made him feel instantly — paternally — protective . |
| 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 | This produced a flood of letters to Downing Street , which were kept from Baldwin during his long holiday , but which hit him with the force of a tidal wave on his return . |
| 5 | What he relied on , I think , and what he always came back to was that ‘ natural ’ self which he did not understand nor at this stage want to understand , but which gave him his power . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | But what irked him most were bishops ' meetings . |
| 8 | But what attracted him above all else to the magazine illustrators was their subject matter . |
| 9 | But what irritated him above all was the jumble of loose ends he would be obliged to leave behind , just at the moment when he was beginning to see how to unravel them . |
| 10 | But what enabled him to put it through was a high romantic imagination . |
| 11 | But what made him choose to devote himself to mathematics was his finding in 1795 of the criterion for a regular n-gon to be constructible using only compass and straightedge . |
| 12 | She knew he was in a position to do what he wished , but what made him think she would enjoy it ? |
| 13 | But what made him decide to do something about it ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But what drove him on was less his outsize libido than his desire to prove a point and win public acclaim : ‘ Everyone thinks I 'm going to die . |
| 16 | But what worried him most was the apparent lack of breathing or pulse . |
| 17 | He asked many questions about them , but what interested him was their lesbianism . |
| 18 | It was not direct north but what interested him were the air currents the hills created . |