Example sentences of "but they [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many aspects of his analysis were similar to those advanced by Blauner , but they led him to an opposite conclusion . |
| 2 | But they speared him , and she fainted , just that once . |
| 3 | But they made him realize that he was getting across what he wanted to get across , and not a holy-sounding fog of words . |
| 4 | but they , but they told him he 'd have to pull it down , so |
| 5 | For a fleeting moment he braced himself for confrontation , suspecting that they would want all three bags , but they left him his . |
| 6 | But they assured him that they could take that part of it out , which of course they did . |
| 7 | but they sent him down . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , Frank was there all night and then he went straight to the office but they sent him home at lunch-time . |
| 9 | I thought I could cope , but they sent him home from school and I just ca n't seem to shift the stuff off his lungs . ’ |
| 10 | so he can either sleep in bed with his dad and J J or but they make him up a bed on that . |
| 11 | But they show him as being very bright and intelligent and far from naive . |
| 12 | The teenager tried to run away when the youths approached him but they punched him in the face and pushed him to the ground . |
| 13 | I said the sharp one this one he 's fairly cheap but they use him a lot , . |
| 14 | ‘ But they shot him again as he lay dying . ’ |
| 15 | He called at the dogs , but they paid him no attention . |
| 16 | Its early days but they expect him to be in hospital for about two months . |
| 17 | But they started him on a new course of treatment yesterday and he 's begun to respond . ’ |
| 18 | John did not want to see a doctor , but they overrode him this morning and had the quack in . |
| 19 | It was true that they had all been children when he was taken away , but they remembered him as kind always . |
| 20 | He had only met them once briefly at a party , but they remembered him effusively . |
| 21 | He tried to get away in his wheelchair , but they caught him in the hallway . |
| 22 | But they watched him . |
| 23 | He liked the steadiness of those eyes , the earnestness of the face ; but they confused him . |
| 24 | He was diffident — unlike Ernest who was good at all games — and preoccupied with his country pursuits , but they found him companionable ; himself capable of long hours of solitude , he could always find acquaintances ready to share his company for a time ; but only a few dedicated companions shared his exacting singleminded concentration on these occupations . |
| 25 | But they called him the un-canny Scot . |
| 26 | So my reading of the evidence so far is that they did n't want a body lying around on the river bed , where it might come up sometime , or perhaps even be found by divers , but they wanted him carried under water well out to sea . " |
| 27 | Colin Parry , 37 , a personnel officer , wept as he said his 12-year-old son would never be the way he was but they wanted him to live and they would make a life for him . |
| 28 | Nicol gave as good an account of himself as any of us , elder though he may be , and kept the key of the coffer safe , but they threw him off the cart , and coffer and all are gone , for it was there among the coppice wood . |
| 29 | But they gave him their support , none the less , and the first issue , containing political reports , original essays , poetry , and reviews , was announced for the beginning of March , the aim of the publication being , as Coleridge modestly explained , ‘ to proclaim the State of the Political Atmosphere , and preserve Freedom and her Friends from the attacks of Robbers and Assassins ! ! ’ |
| 30 | The plans were sent to the Governors of the Greenwich Hospital , but they gave him no encouragement . |